Globe News brief on postwar aviation and policy questions
A clash of views on postwar air travel bans and democracy unfolds as aviation experts predict Axis curbs, while commentators weigh methods to preserve peace. Turkish former minister Dr. Aras criticizes Polish territorial aims amid wider debate on prohibition and public sentiment shaping policy.
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Baltic Countries
Ukraine
Great Duchy of
Moscow
Poland
Tewik Rustu Aras
Curse Removed Critique of Roosevelt Civilian Draft Proposal
Paul Mallon argues the proposed civilian draft bill would curtail individual rights and expand state control, labeling it a move toward national martial law. He condemns the plan as unjust, compares it to communism, and notes political opposition and public confusion amid wartime needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Barkley
House
Pacific Coast
Mallon
Austin
Congress
Pen
Conan Service
Gress Taddeone
Gideon Planish Faces Financial Strain as Rural Adult Education Editor
In 1926 Dean Gideon Planish struggles with partial pay and mounting debts while editing Rural Adult Education. His wife Peony excuses their poverty, dreaming of Long Island luxury as creditors press and the couple clings to dignity amid hunger and ambition.
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Kinnikinick College
Gideon Plisish
Peony
Dr. Planish
Mrs. Planish
Planish
A. J
Planishes
New York
Rockefellers
Mary Pickford
Nicholas Murray Butler
Gideon Planish
Planish Rebounds Through Lectures and Radio Icon
Dr Gideon Planish rebuilds after academic setbacks by touring as a professional lecturer. He launches a slate of talks via a hired agent, earns modest income, and gains social standing as he grows his fortune with lectures and a radio stint.
Nazi Strategy for Evading Defeat Explored by Thompson
Dorothy Thompson analyzes a December five issue of Das Reich noting a full page on Germany’s defensive war aims and hopes to force a peace by exhausting Allied resolve. The piece argues Germany cannot regain the offensive and peers at potential coalitions and U‑turns in American public will.
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Dr. Goebbels
Germany
Mediterranean
Balkans
Russia
America
Delbrueck
Ritter von Leeb
Air Force becomes a gigantic thing in Italy
Ernie Pyle describes the 12th Air Force dive bomber squadron life in Italy, contrasting airmen’s relatively stable, homelike conditions with brutal infantry hardships. He notes the psychological shift, the shared danger, and pilots’ growing empathy for ground troops as liaison pilots fly to understand frontline conditions and support their fellow soldiers.
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Ernie Pyle
Italy
12Th Air Force Command
Air Corps
Hope and Eternity Echo in Poetic Lines
A fragmentary verse collection references Addison Pope and themes of eternity hope and human change. The lines ponder endless passages and untried experiences as eternal thoughts arise within the human breast.
Thirty Seven Days of Hell in the Solomons War
A veteran compares New Georgia fighting to the Argonne in World War One, recounting 37 days of landing under air bombardment, jungle combat, supply operations, and relentless hand to hand danger. He notes 18 to 23 year olds enduring fatigue, thirst, and constant threat, calling the Solomons campaign brutal and harrowing.
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Solomons
New Georgia
Munda
Argonne
Rae Eelie Tha
Rendova Island
Mitsu Bishis
Fokkers
General Sherman
Algeria
Tunisia
Hell
Thoughts on Faith and Resolve from Religious Verses
A compact collage of biblical citations and literary lines on faith, belief, temptation, and steadfastness. The excerpts reference James 2 19 1 John 2 17 Ephesians 6 11 and quote Lowell and Bishop South on perseverance amid spiritual conflicts.
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South Dakota
Yale
Quotations From Leaders On War and Economics
A pair of wartime quotes discuss high profits harming living standards and optimism for Germany’s defeat in 1944. Eric A. Johnston links profit focus to low living standards, while Admiral Ernest J King expresses hope Germany will be defeated this year.
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Eric A. Johnston
U.S.C
Germany
Adml
Ernest J. King
U. S
Polk Street Professor Riddle Teases Cadet Exam
A colonel tests aviation cadets with tricky questions about math and nature. The cadet answers forty four, explaining his cousin is twenty two and half nuts, revealing a humorous riddle rather than a factual outcome.
Todays Puzzler Answer Key
Pictured head of Argentine government to 52 Royal Scottish Academy and clues cover a crossword style puzzle with horizontal and vertical entries. The list includes common words such as God of love and redacted terms, ending with a reference to a royal academy.
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Royal Scottish Academy
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