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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1940
Page
2
Weekly analysis by Roger Shaw reports German air raids on Britain and notes a pact between American republics while the U S studies a peacetime draft. The editor's note clarifies opinion are those of the analyst.
The piece surveys a world of mostly aerial war, noting prisoner releases by Germany and looming moves by Spain and Romania to join the conflict. It highlights confusion and shifting alliances from Europe to the Americas, with Bulgaria and Basan cited as stakes in a broader political chessboard.
Diplomatic dispatches report Mrs Daisy Borden Harriman traveling on a U S Army transport with American ministers to the Baltic states absorbed by Soviet Russia. Vice President Garner returns to Texas amid questions of a possible bolt. Analysts debate universal military service and the draft amid wartime anxieties and isolationist sentiment.
The piece surveys Willkie's South strategy and cross-partisan shifts in 1940 politics, noting ex-Democrats inclining to the Republican line, and tracing influence among Hull Farley and Wallace. It includes jokes from Berlin and London about Roosevelt and the war landscape, with a historical digression on St George.
Stuckart argues four year arc toward Roosevelt third term clash and party realignment. Conservatives may move to Republicans as Willkie gains traction. Relief farm and foreign votes drive shifting support with Democrats split over third term. Roosevelt’s policies attract some voters while critics attack the draft and Chicago convention dynamics.
Mrs Ethie Fan Aernam, a Seneca Indian in upstate New York, defies state and federal orders by opening barbed wire barricades she has strung across a road, claiming the road sits on her property and that no payment has ever been made to her or her ancestors.
A William Struckart article notes November 5 polls mark a major transition in American political thought. He argues the break between New Deal era government philosophy and its critics defines a pivotal shift in national policy alignment.
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