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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1942
Page
2
Edward C Wayne reports plans to send U S forces to the British Isles and form a unified high command in the Pacific under British veteran Wavell to plan war strategy against the Axis. The column notes editorial opinion is the analyst's own.
President Roosevelt in his state of the nation message pledged land air and sea forces to battle stations in the British Isles and outlined a 26 nation coalition and high command for the Southwest Pacific with Wavell Hart Brett and Pownall. He cited a $56 billion war cost and noted strategic focus from Darwin to Singapore while Manila fell and MacArthur's forces regrouped.
British forces in Malaya conduct delaying actions as Japan presses toward Singapore. RAF attacks intensify on southern fronts while artillery targets Japanese positions. In Libya, Auchinleck’s troops advance close to the frontier after Bar dia fall, with prisoners piling up. Reports from London hint at a potential third front in spring and rising use of guerrilla tactics across Western Europe.
The Nation shifts to total mobilization as car production halts to supply essentials for physicians and police. Wages and prices face controls while wartime taxes surge. Civil defense grows with a San Francisco blackout, a civil air patrol formed from 90,000 pilots, including 7,000 women, to support the Army Air Force.
Maj. Gen. George H. Brett, chief of the U. S. Army Air Corps, was named deputy supreme commander of the unified allied high command in the southwest Pacific. He will serve under Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, commander of the allies in the area.
The Paris press blamed Vichy for failing to live up to collaboration promises and cited American Ambassador Leahy. Irene Dunne awoke to gunfire on her estate as a guard fought another, wounding him. A Fort Slocum private expressed a wish to volunteer for a death by own action squad in a non combat laundry unit. Churchill declined to feed White House squirrels as cameras waited twenty minutes.
Captor Emile Muselier of the Free French navy seized St Pierre and Miquelon, a move that embarrassed the U S state department and raised fears of Vichy coordination with Berlin.
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