FRENCH UNITY: War committee forms to guide liberation
Western Newspaper Union notes a seven man French liberation committee led by De Gaulle and Giraud, replacing Vichy links, with aim to direct French war effort alongside Allies until victory. Roosevelt orders miners back to work, backing War Labor Board. miners’ dispute to follow board jurisdiction. Chinese forces claim 30,000 enemy casualties in Yangtze drive, retreat to prepared positions. Ichang reconquest advances as Chinese seize supplies and encircle units around Changyang.
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Giraud
DeGaulle
Algiers
Africa
London
Committee of National Liberation
de Gaulle
Liberation Committee
France
de- Gaulle
Alphonse George
Jean Monnet
Rene Massigli
Andre Philip
Georges Catroux
Vichy
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
Lewis
United Mine Workers
China
Yangtze Valley
Chiang Kaishek
Chungking
Tokyo Radio
Yangtze River
Hupeh
Hunan
Chiang
Ichang
Changyang
Mussolini at Bay as Pantelleria Bombarded by Allies
Allied forces pounded Pantelleria, the nearest Italian outpost to Africa, with heavy naval and air strikes. Italian defenses offered little resistance as bombardments damaged port facilities and ships.
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Mussolini
Italy
Pantelleria
Mediterranean
Africa
Tunisia
Cap Bon
Sicily
Sardinia
Trade Pacts Extend Reciprocal Agreements Two Years
The senate finalizes two year extension of Roosevelt reciprocal trade pacts after defeating five amendments. House already approved. Original request was three years but cut to two to avoid crossing into the next administration. Extension guarantees policy through June 12 1945, beyond the next inauguration.
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Senate
Roosevelt
House
United Nations
Pay-As-You-Go Tax Plan Clears Senate and House
After five months of wrangling the pay-as-you-go income tax bill sped through the senate after house passage. The plan begins July 1 with a 20 percent payroll tax above personal exemptions for 40 million workers, promising about 16 billion dollars in revenue for the new fiscal year. The bill forgives 1942 taxes of 50 dollars and cuts the remainder over 50 by 75 percent. Meanwhile Allied air power intensifies in the Pacific with raids on Attu’s aftermath and attacks on Kiska, WeWak, and targets in Burma as supplies and air bases are bombed.
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Senate
House
Treasury
Aleutians
Burma
Attu
Kiska
Navy Department
New Guinea
WeWak
Lakekamu River
Wau
China
Shweli
Mandalay
Postwar plenry pledge from UN food conference delegates
Delegates from 44 United Nations countries pledged to build a postwar world of plenty at Hot Springs Virginia. They endorsed creating a permanent world agricultural authority as the international organ to achieve this goal. Undersecretary Paul H Appleby hailed the outcome as highly successful.
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United Nations
Hot Springs
Virginia
Paul H Appleby
United States
Victory Over a Formidable Enemy Foretold by Baukhage
Washington Digest discusses the inevitability of victory despite a massive and undefeated foe. It analyzes enemy strength in land, sea, and air, noting the Allies’ advantages and the need for patient civilian support while outlining postwar education reforms and the shift in college entrance expectations for returning veterans.
Argentina Military Move Tests Neutrality in Election Year
Observers link veiled reports of a military move in Argentina to the nation’s future international policy. The event weighs on Conservative Party plans to name Robustiano Patron Costas as candidate, endorsed by neutrality-minded President Ramon Castillo, amid a pivotal convention.
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Argentina
South America
Senate
Robustiano Patron Costas
Costas
Ramon Castillo
War Bonds and Draft Notes in Weekly Highlights
The week reports Americans should invest 25 percent of income in war bonds per Treasury Secretary Morgen Thau. Canada orders freezing all anthracite coal stocks by coal controller J McG Stewart. Sherman Jenkins Jr and sons in Clarksdale Mississippi tell of a draft that called 12 sons aged 19 to 39. Oil executives toured Fort Belvoir Virginia to understand war effort fueled by petroleum.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Canada
J. McG Stewart
War Munitions Department
Sherman Jenkins
Clarksdale, Miss
Russians Quote Kursk Air Battle as Major War Event
Moscow announced 500 Nazi planes raided Kursk about 120 miles north of Kharkov. The Soviet communique said 123 German planes were shot down while 30 Red planes fell. Germans claimed new Russian offensives around Novorossiysk and in the Kuban valley as the Caucasus war drama unfolds toward summer.
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Moscow
Kursk
Kharkov
Kuban
Caucasus
Red Tank
Novorossisk
Arctic Sea
Beef Point Values Up As Supplies Falter
Dwindling beef stocks prompt the Office of Price Administration to raise ration point values. Porterhouse sirloin and T bone cuts gain three points while roasts rise two. Dried beef leads with a four point jump from 12 to 16 points a pound. Veal lamb mutton pork and variety meats see declines enabling substitutions for housewives.
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Office of Price Administration
War Finance Committee to oversee future war funding drives
Secretary Henry Morgenthau announced the merger of the victory fund committee and the war savings staff into a single organization named the war finance committee. The new body will coordinate all future war financing efforts, operate on state lines under state chairmen who report to the Treasury.
Home canned foods rule under OPA standards outlined
Bankhage Foods are deemed home canned if prepared in a kitchen used for meals or in a separate farm building set up for canning with local ration board permission. Swedish Foreign Minister Christian Guenther said no neutral power can keep an absolute balance between camps, noting Sweden’s concessions to Germany beyond those to the western powers in Eskilstuna.
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Opa
Christian E. Guenther
Eskilstuna
Sweden
Germany
Hoerby Radio
Office of War Information
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Hitler
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