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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1940
Page
6
Editor notes analysis on Allied and Axis forces with Greece defending against Italian invasion aided by weather. Kennedy urges U S aid for England as diplomatic meetings between Soviet Nazi and fascist envoys are reported.
Greek forces claim a crushing setback for Italy in two pronged attacks with the left flank near Koritza stalled while the right flank south toward Ioannina makes progress crossing the Kalamas river. Italians allegedly suffer thousands trapped or drowned amid mountain torrents. Evzones praised for guerrilla actions. Kennedy voices sharp war opinions in London interview.
Public burnings of campaign literature in Salina Kansas contrasted with a flop in Tacoma Washington as post election unity gestures. The Civil Liberties Union offers aid for eight German American Bundsmen charged with anti semitic talks at Camp Nordland New Jersey. A bamboo roof basket to catch bombs is claimed effective by neutral observers. A raffee in Washington DC died by suicide after a health related withdrawal.
Neville Chamberlain, tall lean statesman who led Britain from Munich appeasement through early wartime months and resigned as prime minister, died at his Hampshire countryside estate at age 71. His long service climaxed in the prewar period and his Munich pact of September 30, 1938 earned world attention.
The piece discusses an Axis war triangle with Russia, Germany, and Italy amid Italian Greek Balkan tensions and Turkish fears. It notes Ickes poll rhetoric, Roosevelt election aftermath, and a new defense policy offering Britain a fifty fifty share of war material including planes, ships, food, and tools under defense guidance.
Snow bound Utah crash kills ten including honeymooners while a Rio de Janeiro takeoff collision with an advertising plane ends in nineteen deaths. A Brazilian flyer and English pilot perish as the liner sinks in harbor.
BAUKHAGE analyzes how increasing farm machinery alters labor needs and land use, noting 10 million jobs moved by machines in 35 years and 1.5 million more to be replaced by tractors in a decade. He highlights agricultural tech, benefits and woes, then reads from the See America First archives showing U S history and defense site expansions.
Ann Arbor Michigan Fakh ril Maluf a University of Michigan student says Syrian newspapers report he has been sentenced by the French Petain government to 15 years in prison for writings advocating independence and social reform in Syria He is in the United States on an indefinite scholar permit and expects to stay awhile.
Baukhage reports that farm life adapts to new tech and market focused production. The Greek ambassador in Washington says Greek unity is strong. The war department under the defense program is buying large tracts of land.
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