Wait for Victory Longest in China
The piece traces China's prolonged war effort from the 1930s through World War II, noting the delay in declaring war due to American neutrality laws, the heavy Chinese casualties, and the gradual Allied buildup. It highlights Stilwell, the Fourteenth Air Force, and the reopening of the Burma Road in 1945, enabling sustained Chinese resistance and eventual offensives into Indo China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James D. White
Associated Press
United Nations
China
Japan
Manchuria
Pearl Harbor
Chungking
Chiang Kai- Shek
Yenan
Chiang
America
Asia
Burma
Assam
Joseph W. Stilwell
Stilwell
Fourteenth Airforce
Himalayas
Stillwell
Hankow
Indo-China
MacArthur
Philippines
South China Sea
India
Kweiyang
Thailand
Malaya
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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Bervica Mens Beluon
Massenger
Athens
Jonn W Cullen Company
Kick New York
Columbus
Cleveland
Japanese Propaganda Rallying Colored Races to Exterminate Whites
A historical piece portrays Japanese World War II era propaganda claiming a divine mission to save colored races by eradicating the white race, detailing racist rhetoric, quotes from officials, and references to Asia's unity under Japan. It notes strong white backlash and broader geopolitical tensions including quotes from government and military figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Council of Internationa Affairs
Nanking
China
Teilchi Muto
Touke
J Asia
Yosuke Matsuoka
John Latham
Tokyo
Greater East Asia
Ichiro Kimishina
Bank of Chosen
New East Asia
Tsukasa Kato
Buureau
War Office
Navy
Shigetaro Shimada
East Asia
Takeya Fushimi
Hidejiro Nagata
Sadao Araki
Building Confidence in Postwar Demand and Jobs
Carl E. Newton of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway announces a national information effort to show how postwar demand for coal and allied products will create jobs. The plan covers coal driven growth in Nylon chemicals plastics and new locomotives, plus pulp and paper uses like plasticized roofing tiles and hospital paper goods, aiming to boost public confidence and avert a wartime slump.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl E. Newton
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company
Research for Life and Death in Atomic Era Costs
An editorial argues the 2 billion spent to build the first atomic bomb mirrors the 4 million invested by Alfred Sloan Jr. and Charles Kettering to fund cancer research. It asserts the parallel shows huge science spending can yield benefits. with more funds and continued work, cancer may be conquered as surely as the bomb contributed to ending World War II.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
Charles F. Kettering
Memorial Cancer Center
New York
Japan
Sloan
Mr. Kettering
GANDER AFL LEADER CLASHES OVER LABOR POLICY
President William Green of the AFL opposes government backed labor industrial relations plans and urges private sector talks between labor and industry. He rejects state control while insisting on self interest and public good as guiding principles, contrasting with Schwellenbach’s call for public interest first. Quotes from Whistler and Grenfell bracket the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Green
AFL
Ball-Burton- Hatch
Labor
Green
Mr. Green
Schwellenbach
Washington Letter on postwar reconversion and agency readiness
Douglas Larsen surveys postwar planning showing OPA and War Production Board clashing over reconversion and control cuts. He notes reorganizations across Treasury, Labor, Agriculture and Commerce, with inexperienced second-tier officials and limited planning for millions of unemployed. Veterans Administration, led by General Bradix, is seen as least prepared. GI Bill goals lag. He argues real changes require action by Congress amid a fragile, uneven transition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
War Production Board
Ciitizen
Treasury
Labor
Agriculure
Commerce
War Manpower Commission
Office of Civilian Requirements
Veterans Administration
Bradiex
Europe
G. I. Hill
Idie
American Women Did Their Part in War of Pacific
Bonnie Wiley profiles American women in World War II, highlighting army and navy nurses in field hospitals near Okinawa, shipboard nurses on hospital ships, and the new flight nurses who entered battle zones. It notes WACs supporting front lines, living in rugged conditions, enduring air raids, and delivering essential noncombat services in the South Pacific and Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnie Wiley
Guam
Pacific
Army
Okinawa
South Pacific
Navy
Saipan
Iwo
Comfort
WACS
Philippines
Yanks Going to Pacific Are Given Some Good Advice
HAL Boyle reports on Pacific deployment prep for GIs headed to General Mac Arthur’s HQ. Recruits face strict entrance tests, travel through crowded embarkation points, and receive health briefings, inoculations, and anti disease checks before heading west toward Manila. Captain Alfred Gross warns against overseas romance to avoid risky infections and boredom steps to stay sane on long deployments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Hal Boyle
MacArthur
Army
Blue Waters
Manila
Hirghito
Air Transport Command
West Coast
Pacific Zones
Alfred Gross
Miami Beach
Fla
Radar To Make Sea and Air Travel Safe in Postwar Era
Radar, the radio detection device, promises safer sea and air travel after World War II. Experts say radar will prevent collisions, guide ships into harbors, and assist pilots with terrain and navigation over long distances, even in zero visibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
4 Persson
Army and Navy
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Rad
End of Japanese War Looms as Tokyo Surrenders
DeWitt Mackenzie argues Japan's leaders threw in the towel after Tokyo offered to let the Mikado stay on the throne. Allied forces pause atomic strikes then launch a broad attack on Tokyo while Soviet forces push into Manchuria and northern China. The piece notes Manchuria as a major manufacturing base and warns continued fighting could be brief but dire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewitt MacKenzie
Tokyo
Japan
Pacific
Germany
Bull) Halsey
Japa
Manchuria
China
Russia
Jap Sailors Not Safe Even When on Shore
Washington reports that American submarines can strike Japanese ships even near shore. The sub Bochin targeted a cargo ship beside a pier near Daito Shima in the Nanpo Shoto area, where a naval liberty crowd gathered. After the torpedo blast, the pier was ruined, the cargo ship gone, and the loaded wares lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Daito Shima
Nanpo Shoto Islands
Bochin
New Athens Bride from Newport News Joins Area Society
Mrs. C. R. Hoskins formerly Virginia Segar of Newport News Va became a bride and newcomer to Athens. Her husband Dr. C. R. Hoskins is linked with eye ear and throat specialist Dr. T. A. Copeland. A farewell party for Mr and Mrs Paul R. Saylor marked their move to Clay West Virginia.
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C. R. Hoskins
Virginia Segar
Newport News
Athens
T. A. Copeland
Hoskins
Paul R. Saylor
The
Christian Church
Mrs. Saylor
Clay
W. Va
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