Europeans Swing to Right in Postwar Shifts Across Europe
The piece surveys Europe’s postwar political realignment with Hungary and Austria turning right, Italy’s rightward drift under Pope-like guardianship, and hopes for Allied support to ease hunger. It notes demobilization trends in the U S Army, wartime redeployments, and the Nazi war-crime trials as part of a broad analysis of shifting power, policy, and reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hungary
Austria
Volkspartei
People's Party
Italy
Prince Humbert
Victor
Vittorio Orlando
U S Rubber Sinew Drives Postwar Plant Policy
The United States controls 52 government owned synthetic rubber plants guiding the postwar rubber scene. U S dominance could affect British Dutch and French plantations in the Far East as 85 percent of needs are met by synthetics. Debates seek to keep some plants for emergencies while pressuring natural rubber prices.
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Cordell Hull
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Japan
Far East
Hull
Swank
Sumner Welles
Roosevelt
U.S
FDR
George C. Marshall
Welles
B. F. Goodrich
Silvertown
Umiat Oil Drill Seen by Navy Seabees in Arctic
Navy Seabees drill for oil near Umiat Alaska in the northern wilds. The Umiat No 1 hole is one of the northernmost wells drilled, located 170 air miles southeast of Point Barrow and 350 miles north of Fairbanks. The project aims to produce sizable oil quantities and will feed a future pipeline.
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Alaska
Umiat
National Geo
Hie
North Pole
Colville
Chief -River
Point Barrow
Arctic Ocean
Fairbanks
Missouri Valley Authority Faces Multiple Committee Setbacks
The proposed Missouri Valley Authority suffered a second setback as the irrigation and reclamation committee issued an adverse report. Referred by Congress to three committees, the bill had already been reported adversely by the commerce committee and now faces action in the agriculture and forestry committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Valley Authority
Irrigation and Reclamation Committee
Congress
Commerce Committee
Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Eisenhower’s Early Party Ties Revealed by Abilene Memory
The piece recounts Dwight D. Eisenhower’s youthful Democrat leanings and cross party endorsements in Abilene Kansas. It notes his 1909 bid for West Point gained support from both Democratic and Republican editors. It also recalls his boyhood nickname Ugly Ike and a humorous horse incident.
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Eisenhower
Washington
Admiral Dewey
Philippines
Dewey
Dwight Eisenhower
GOP
West Point
Kansas
Joseph P. Bristow
William Jennings Bryan
Abilene
Kan
J. W. Howe
Emporia
Howe
Abilene News
Dwight
Bryan
Taft
Teddy Roosevelt
Phil W. Heath
Abilene Chronicle
Charles M. Harger
Abilene Reflector
Heath
Harger
Abilene High School
George H. Hodges
Europe
Ike Eisenhower
Eisenhower Merry Goround
Ike
A. W. Howe
Veterans Bureau notes six point program for amputee rehabilitation
General Bradley urges a single service center in every community so veterans can access benefits. A six point plan covers direct veteran contact, prosthetic surveys, essential information booklets, scientific aftercare, fixed limb standards with manufacturers, and a prosthetic appliances museum. Readers’ questions from spouses and veterans about overseas service, discharge eligibility, disability pensions, and tax exemptions are answered with current regulations and agency guidance.
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Omar N. Bradley
Veterans’ Affairs
Bradley
Veterans Administration
Strasburg
N. D
L. B
Pisgah
Ala
Ning Morthy
Army
Deatsville
War Department
Washington
Birmingsham
Bureau of
Washington, D. C
Fort Riley
Kans
Iowa
Webster City
Internal Revenue Bureau
Wise
Vanderbilt
Mich
Navy Department
N. G
Lancaster
Wis i
Owens Cross Roads
Ata
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Hull Editon
Thone of
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Pearl,harbor
Wacs
Nuernberg
Sidney S. Alderman
Hitler
Germany
Reich
England
France
Russia
Gibraltar
Iceland
Azores
Britain
RAF
Holland
Spain
Finland
Matsuoka
America
China
Singapore
MacArthur
Zaibatsu
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Dwight D. Eisenhower
UNRRA
G.I
Charles W. Hudgins
Norfolk
Albert Procopio
Revere
Mass
Halian
Arctic
MVA
Western Newspaper Union
Eye Street
N. W
Caldwell
Caldwelus
Caldwell Senna
MLA
EL Am Troy
Scott
Ules Rch
St.Joseph
Somlo
Begoodrich
Doan
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