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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
2
Edward C. Wayne notes British strategy to crush Italy first as Albanian and Greek fronts tilt the war. Koritza falls with British air help while Metaxas is hailed. Mussolini disputes claims and prisoners rise steeply. Allies push Italians in fierce alpine fighting.
The article notes Germany’s diplomacy in capitals as Hungary yields to Nazi demands Romania folds while Moscow changes ambassadors. Russia warns Bulgaria and recalls Schwarzkoy, prompting speculation that a Russian monkey wrench could disrupt Axis hopes amid Hungary and Bulgaria moves.
Martial law across Turkey signals a potential entry into the war on the anti Axis side as Germany plots through the Balkans. In the United States, labor fevers flare with strikes at Aluminum Company of America and Vultee Aircraft, while Dies probes draw Nazi and Soviet blame. The CIO elects Philip Murray to replace John Lewis and hints at Ford organizing drives amid Nazi ties scrutiny.
Two more destroyers named Edison and Ericsson were launched in Kearney New Jersey. Edison is linked to Thomas Edison and his son Charles is New Jersey governor elect. Ericsson relates to the Civil War Monitor inventor born in Sweden. The report ties naval buildup to Allied needs and mentions Paris class ships and Allied aid requests.
Henry Wallace builds a Washington network to foster Latin American ties. A lunch group in agriculture leads to the Interdepartmental Committee on Cooperation With the American Republics. Concrete gains include rubber development and rotenone research to aid farmers and reduce foreign dependence.
Ruth Wyeth Spears offers a tiny four poster doll bed project for Santa to leave beside a bed on Christmas Eve. The piece describes gluing a cigar box, spools, and clothes pins and painting for a complete bed with bedding and coverlet. Readers are invited to send orders.
The New York dispatch states Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins resigns from President Roosevelt's cabinet. It notes Ralph W. Barnes, Herald Tribune foreign correspondent, was found dead in a British bomber crash near Danilovgrad Yugoslavia.
Mail-Lisbon air shipments resume with 3000 pounds of letters. Home Stay for Christmas echoes German wartime rail needs. Unconfirmed surrender rumors claim French battleship gave in at Gibraltar. Argonne veteran notes Greco Italian combat mirrors American grit. London reports class mixing amid bombing as Kennedy calls democracy dead.
The defense program spurs talk of higher living costs but no clear price increase yet. The Bureau of Labor Statistics watches retail prices in defense towns and ponders possible actions if inflation appears.
A concise reflection on wisdom as the ultimate measure and currency of virtue. Plato argues that fortitude temperance and justice are secured by wisdom, making true virtue inseparable from wise judgment and discernment.
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