War Action Shifts to Balkans and Africa
Weekly News Analysis by Edward C Wayne reports Britain seeks munitions not men as Hitler eyes the Dardanelles and the Balkans. United States ramping planes and destroyers amid German threats. Willkie urges more ships. British advances in Africa push Italians toward Tunis while Vichy and Spanish leaders edge toward Axis alignment. Krivitsky's death shocks Washington as Soviet intelligence figures surface.
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Balkan States
Hitler
Dardanelles
Africa
Churchill
Winston Churchill
Empire
U.S
England
U. S
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Iceland
North American
Bulgaria
Germany
Mediterranean
Romania
Carol
Rumania
Sofia
Russia
Moscow
Turkey
Tunis
Maxime Weygand
Vichy
Marshal Petain
Admiral Darlan
Pierre Laval
Paris
Spain
Franco
Europe
Mussolini
Gibraltar
Italy
Genoa
Washington
Samual Ginsberg
New York
Walter G. Krivitsky
Soviet
Secret Service
General Krivitsky
Communist Party
Krivitsky
Stalin
America
Communist Internationale
Dies Committee
Secret Police
OGPU
Batista’s Cuba Quietly Basks After Palace Siege
Cuba’s leader Fulgencio Batista steered a calm path after suspending civil rights during a palace security build up. Following the crisis, army leaders were recalled, civil rights restored, and amid celebrations a daughter was born to Batista’s wife with a plan to gift every newborn a ten-peso note and five-peso savings.
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Fulgencio Batista
Cuba
Batista
Rotary International
United States
Island
Cuban
Miami
Fla
Jose E. Pedraza
Angel A. Gonzales
Navy
Bernardo Garcia
Havana
Senora
Eliza Godinez de Batista
Indo-Chinese bases change Pacific balance and war reach
The article notes Japan’s seizure of French Indo-Chinese naval bases at Saigon and Cap St Jacques, boosting its stance toward Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. It discusses strategic distances, the potential Pacific attack timing, and U S naval considerations amid broader war concerns.
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Washington, D. C
Europe
Far East
Singapore
Dutch East Indies
Berlin
Japan
South Pacific
Atlantic
Pacific
Saigon
Cap St. Jacques
California
Hawaii
U. S
Hitler
England
Union Now and the drive toward a United Earth federation
The author critiques Union Now and a world federation, arguing for a constitutional union with the British empire or a united Earth system. He warns against entangling alliances, calls for wartime restraint, and contrasts proposals with Articles of Confederation. He references Clarence Streit and Leon Henderson, condemns price manipulation, and urges government-industrial coordination within legal bounds.
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League of Nations
International League
Clarence Strait
Union Now
United States
Earth
America
U.S. A
Mr. Streit
Uncle Sam
Hitler
Heaven
Leon Henderson
Washington
Leon
NRA
Thurman
Arnold
NBA
Czar to Lead NFL Style League as Big Business Grows
Czar Elmer Layden, a Notre Dame Four Horsemen veteran, is named head of the league with powers akin to baseball's Landis. Reed Smoot, longtime U S senator and Mormon leader, dies at 79 during a Florida visit after a Senate career from 30 years of service.
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Roosevelt
George M. Harrison
Harrison
Elmer Layden
Notre Dame
Four Horsemen
Kenesaw Landis
U. S. Senate
Reed Smoot
Utah
Florida
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U.S. District Court For
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