Propaganda Doses and Ghost Writing in Politics
The army uses equal weekly doses of New Deal and Republican campaign talk via short wave radio, a fair but impractical plan given inherent political unequal influence. UNRRA debates feeding nations vs birth control amid cannon fodder nations, raising international birth control as policy. Raymond Clapper writings warn ghost writing in politics erodes democracy, urging leaders speak in their own words for honesty. The piece muses on government forms, wartime labor, and potential postwar reforms to shorten conflict.
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United States
Ickes
Republican Party
Prohibition Party
Ray Tucker
Washington
UNRRA
Germany
Japan
Raymond Clapper
Clapper
Bremerton
Labor
Black Widow
Aimee Semple McWhoris
Americans Cross Marne as 50,000 Nazis fall in Rhone valley
Allied forces surge into the Rhone valley trapping about 15,000 Germans on the east bank as American tanks and artillery drive from Avignon toward Montelimar. Front dispatches report heavy fighting, massive German casualties, and thousands of prisoners in a sweeping advance through Toulon Marseille and the Rhône region aided by French Maquis attacks along the eastern flank.
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Rhone
Nineteenth Army
Montelimar
Avignon
Mediterranean
Lyon
Sisterene- Grenoble
United Press
Dana Adams Schmidt
Toulon
Marseille
Henry Maitland Wilson
Marauder
Mitchell
Pomegue
Ratonneau
France
Cannes
Alexander M. Patch
Var
Antibes
Nice
Paris
English Channel
Seine
Rouen
le Havre
Pas de ‘Calais
Mantes
Vernon
Elbeuf
Pont-de-la- Arche
Louviers
Pont-de-l’Arche
Third Army
Marne
Meaux
Lagny
Algiers
Vitry
Verdun
Troyes
Arcis-sur-Aube
Saar
Germany
Mme Chiang Kai-shek Seriously Ill To Seek U S Treatment
Mme Chiang Kai-shek wife of the Chinese generalissimo is seriously ill and will travel to the United States in a few weeks for urgently needed medical care. She is now in Rio de Janeiro with her sister Mrs H H Kung and her brother-in-law Dr Kung disclosed the information on Monday.
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Washington
Chiang Kai-shek
United States
H. H. Kung
Mme. Chiang
Rio de Janeiro
Mme. Kung
Breakup Goes On in Balkans
London dispatches report German forces encircled Bucharest cutting the capital from the country as Romanian troops capture or scatter German divisions. Yugoslav Partisans near Belgrade threaten wider war, while Bulgaria hints at declaring war on the Reich. Slovakia sees limited German salvage efforts as Romanians reportedly trap divisions and Bucharest radios claim German disarmament. An Ankara briefing cites Romanian anger toward bombing. Bucharest orders German subjects aged 16 to 60 to report or face execution as spies.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Balkans
Belgrade
Bulgaria
Slovakia
Hitler
Turkey
Austria
Romania
Bucharest
Ankara
Transylvania
Iosif Theodorescu
Equal Radio Time Granted 5 Parties
The war department announced that five political parties will receive weekly short-wave time to rebroadcast speeches to armed forces overseas. Democratic Republican Prohibition Socialist and Socialist Labor are allotted equal time from Sept. 1 to Nov. 1, under a soldier vote law amendment.
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Washington
INS
War Department
Prohibition
Department
How Far to Berlin
The Associated Press notes distances on four fronts. From Warsaw’s eastern suburbs it is 322 miles to Berlin. From Troyes in northern France 495 miles. From Perly in southern France 545 miles. From Florence’s northern outskirts in Italy 600 miles.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
France
Troyes
Perly
Florence
Paris Hails Eisenhower as De Gaulle Escapes Snipers
Paris welcomed Gen Dwight D Eisenhower after a weekend of events in liberated Paris. Germans bombed the city and snipers fired at Gen Charles de Gaulle during a Notre Dame service, while resistance leaders moved toward the new government. Crowds filled the Champs Elysees as allied commanders and De Gaulle toured the city.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Charles de Gaulle
London
Algiers
Quartus Cerat
de Gaulle
Cerat
Champs- Elysees
Eisenhower
Arc de Triomphe
Kansas Prairie
Omar N. Bradley
Twelfth Army Group
Joseph Pierre Koenig
Interior
Jacques Leclerc
Second Armored Division
Arthur Tedder
Leonard Therow
United States Corps
Bernard L. Montgomery
George S. Patton, Jr
Notre Dame Cathedral
PAC Starts C R Activity in Cedar Rapids
Frank Nye reports the National Citizens Political Action committee plans a voluntary one dollar per CIO union member to fund political activity. United Packing House Workers of America Local No 3 began the drive at Wilson and Company. others in Cedar Rapids expect to follow, with an estimated 4,150 to 4,450 additional CIO members awaiting launch.
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National Citizens Political Action Committee
CIO
Cedar Rapids
Sidney Hillman
Congressional Committee of National Pac
United Packing House Workers of America
Wilson and Company
Early End to German War Seen by Business Week Editor
John Chapman foreign editor of Business Week predicts rapid end to World War II with Germany and Japan collapsing in short order. He cites British aid, limited Russian involvement in the Pacific, postwar markets, and a return to the Philippines, noting the need for trained foreign service and postwar readjustments across Europe and Asia.
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Business Week
John Chapman
Cedar Rapids
New York
John Forrest Chapman
Germany
Japan
United States
Pacific
Russia
Finland
Bessarabia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Curzon
Latin America
China
India
Philippines
George T. Chapman
Second Avenue
South
Chapman
Soviets Reach Hungary After Bucharest Advance
Moscow reports two large Russian mobile armies moved toward Ploesti and Bucharest after breaking the Galati gap defenses. German fronts, Romanians defecting to the Allies, and heavy Axis losses tally in the Romanian drive, with 1,081,886 Axis killed or captured since June. Russian lines near Praga and Warsaw also report gains and more localities surrender on the Estonian front.
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Moscow
Ploesti
Romania
Bucharest
Galati
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Rodion V. Malinovsky
Hungary
Transylvania
Focansi
Ramnicul-Sarat
Chisinau
Praga
Warsaw
Third Baltic Army
Seer Asked to Cure Man, Money Restored by Police
Bert Quinby handed two thousand dollars to a gypsy woman named Madame Mohawk for a cure. She was arrested in Maquoketa, but the money was returned Monday and no charges were filed. Quinby, 60, felt better after the incident. Authorities traced the operation from Monticello to Anamosa and Maquoketa, where the fortune telling setup was found.
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Cedar Rapids
Bert Quinby
Madame Mohawk
Quinby
Jones County
Henry Eichhorn
Maquoketa
Madame
Monticello
Anamosa
Eichhorn
Yanks Enter Battlefields Of Last War
Allied and American forces push across the Marne towards Paris, capturing Meaux and expanding a broad advance in eastern France. Meaux’s seizure joins a sweeping campaign with few German defenses as Allied bridgeheads widen from the Seine to the Atlantic.
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