Wang Ching-wei breaks with Chiang Kai-shek amid war
Analysis notes Wang Ching-wei’s New Year mood shift as he meets Japanese agents in Hong Kong and terms for a separate Chinese leadership. The piece discusses Chiang’s weakened position, purges in Chungking, and looming shifts in U S policy, with focus on Tokyo’s reaction and broader prewar diplomacy.
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China
Chiang Kai-shek
Tokyo
Chiang
Chungking
U. S
Britain
Wang Ching-wei
Fuminaro Konoye
Kuomintang
Wang
Hongkong
Manchukuo
Japan
Shanghai
Oservers
Szechuan
Yunnan
Roosevelt reshuffles WPA allies in commerce move
Washington observers say President Roosevelt sidestepped opposition by naming Harry Hopkins to the commerce post and designating Col. Harrington as acting WPA administrator. The strategy aims to dampen drive for a WPA probe while keeping Hopkins close and maintaining control over relief spending as Congress weighs funding.
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Roosevelt
Corcoran
Hopkins
Jackson
Oliphant
White House
Garner
Farley
Hull
Harry Hopkins
Commerce
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Congress
Murphy
Senate Judiciary Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Transportation Board
Federal
Transportation Court
Management-Labor Committee
U. S. Transportation
Senate-House
Burton K. Wheeler
Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
Montana
Wheeler
Management-Labor
Wheeler Rail
Clarence F. Lea
California
Lea
House
Commerce Post
WPA
Harrington
Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Col. F. C. Harrington
Daniel C. Roper
Aubrey Williams
Williams
Mr. Williams
Capitol
Commerce Department
Col
Army
Nazi Patterned Ghetto Laws Spread to Czechoslovakia
The article reports Nazi inspired persecution of Jews spreading to Czechoslovakia with ghetto laws soon to take effect. It notes Jews will be barred from politics civil service teaching journalism and radio though some may keep practicing law and medicine.
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Nazi Germany
Czechoslovakia
Danzig
Free City
Reich
Liechtenstein
Pershing’s fleeting bond with a wounded soldier
At Tours base hospital during the war General Pershing met a legibly wounded soldier who described his wound location with precise terrain details. Pershing recognized the description as the advance south of Soissons, showing the shared humanity and sense of proximity between leader and ranker.
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General Pershing
Soissons
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