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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1941
Page
2
Edward C. Wayne analyzes wartime policy as the Senate approves the lease‑lend measure to aid Britain. The piece notes a Nazi spring offensive gaining speed with Balkansas as a focal point, reflecting editor’s note on opinions.
The U S senate approved the lease lend bill by 60 to 31 after a heated two month fight. Opponents warned of war by April 1 while supporters argued the measure safeguards and would speed aid to Britain. The vote split largely along regional lines with Democrats strong for and Republicans divided.
Washington ordered Italian consulates in Detroit Newark closed and restricted Italian diplomatic officials. Mussolini restricted U S diplomatic movement in Italy and Hull retaliated. British Luftwaffe night attack on London caused civilian casualties and damage to a fashionable club.
In Washington, Lowell Mellett, head of the National Emergency Council, rejects any plan to censor the press or centralize news control. He favors efficient government information bureaus and invites press and radio input to handle emergency reporting without bottlenecks.
Gen George Grunert commanding the Philippine department cautions Americans in Manila against alarm and excitement as Japan eyes Oceania. A veteran soldier from White Haven Pennsylvania, he served in the Spanish American War, Mexican border action, World War I, and as an educator at Army schools before rising to general staff roles.
Mexico City Foreign Minister Padilla urges forward defense for a just cause. Washington figure Harriet Elliott doubts American women will sacrifice aluminum pots for national defense as English women did.
A hitch-hiking farmer rode in a truck with an empty coffin. a lid lift revealed rain stopped, shocking two fellow passengers who fled in terror. In Washington new rules require hot dog packaging to list contents by prominence. Kentucky ruling says a bowling alley pin-boy is employee while a caddy is contractor and exempt from wage laws.
A reporter obtained the total United States airplane production figures after months of inaccessibility. Officials avoided details to prevent embarrassment of other divisions, but the journalist published the totals while withholding the granular breakdown.
A wartime dossier recounts Nazi figures like Hitler and Christiansen consulting seers, carrying talismans, and relying on luck charms such as a horse shoe and a four leaf clover. It notes Udet and other flyers avoiding gloves unless flown in another plane, portraying a jittery image of supposed supermen.
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