France Will Rise Again Through Allied Invasion
The note credits France with unyielding spirit despite four years of Nazi rule. It highlights underground resistance of about 1,000,000 and the reorganized North African army aiding the Allies, while tracing France’s long history from Roman times to the 19th century and stressing lessons learned from upheaval shaping a hopeful, united rebirth.
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France
Gestapo
North
Africa
Italy
Europe
England
Kingdom
Louis XIV
Napoleon
Louis Philippe
Louis Napoleon
Germany
Vision of a United Europe Rising From War Ruins
A speaker asserts that if leaders have taught the younger generation, postwar Europe could forge the greatest continent spanning nation that will endure for centuries, emerging from the ruins with lasting strength.
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Jory
Free enterprise misunderstood by many workers
A columnist argues that the term free enterprise has gained distasteful connotations from its misuse by politicians and exploiters. A survey suggests 98 percent of workers oppose the current use, believing it aims to restrict others rather than enable individual improvement, while upholding the core democratic ideal of honest self‑advancement within fair bounds.
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Spee
Compromise on Japanese Viewpoint Needs No Chance to Win
Ambassador Grew frames a world view that any peace with Japan must require unconditional surrender. He recalls a Dutch shipping conference where Japan said compromise is impossible if Westerners refuse their terms. The piece argues Nazis and Japanese demand total victory and must be defeated on home soil to avoid future claims of mere cessation.
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Grew
No Torture or Slaughter Warned in War Narrative
A wartime morale passage compares the Miderites to wild beasts and argues that, while fighters must pursue enemies to their level, civilized nations must avoid torture or promiscuous slaughter. It stresses dehumanization by Hitler as a warning and emphasizes restraint despite brutal combat.
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Hitler
What have we to do with abroad in war times
The article notes over 5 million Americans serve in the armed forces with 3,657,000 overseas and 1,566,000 in navy coast guard and marine corps. It argues that by year end land troops will be in battle areas on every continent, urging understanding of global defense and collaboration rather than avoidance.
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Navy
Coast Guard
Marine Corps
Washington
Wiig
Washington Merry-Go-Round Highlights Democratic and Republican funders
The column surveys Washington politics with focus on Jesse Jones and Secretary of Commerce pressures over the Texas revolt, White House party dynamics, and campaign contributions. It notes Jones’s claimed ignorance, Hannegan’s appeasement, and a flood of donations to both parties, naming prominent donors and figures from Rockefeller to Dulles and Sloan as well as corporate backers.
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Henry Wallace
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Bob Hannegan
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Jim Farley
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Rhode Island
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Newry
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Donald Bloomingdale
Washington, D. C
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Charles Harwood
Virgin Islands
Dewey
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Winthrop Akirieh
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Gon Nelsen
Fred Searis
Justice Burnest
Alfred P. Sloan
Mrs. Sloan
Jeremiah Milbank
Metropolitan Life
Lewis Gates
Phelpsye
Oscar Strauss
John K. Roosevelt
John Foster Dulles
George Whitney
J. P. Morgan
James G. Bleine
Marine Midland Trust
Arthur Ballantine
the Treasury
Hoover
Robert C. Staning
International Nickel
Walter Gitford
American and
Tet
Lucius Boomeer
Waldorf-Astoria
Elisha Walker
Kuhn, Loeb
Louis Rothschild
Bank of International Settlements
Ford Eberstadt
War Production Board
Donald Nelson
John T. Pratt
Standard Oil
Ggor
Beginning of War's End Begins in West and East Fronts
The article argues that Western fronts see initial German pressure while the Russian front remains quiet, signaling a planned, wide Russian offensive in 1944. It forecasts encirclement campaigns, the potential collapse of the German front, and a major tank offensive on the eastern front, with emphasis on supply, mobility, and strategic weaknesses behind the Carpathians and Danube.
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Max Werner
Wehrmacht
Italy
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Dvinsk
Lvov
Notable West Virginia civic notes and wartime updates
A Charleston area news digest highlights wartime honors for Joseph Lopinsky of Welch and Lt. Gen. Doolittle praise. profiles Phi Psi news from Morgantown. local figures share morale boosting notes, nursing aides, and Annapolis plans. Also mentions Center volunteers, theater updates, and bond-buying success across the state with WMC and USES staff.
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Welch
Ruth Hiner
The
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Atty
Sam Lopinsky
P47 Thunderbolt Group
James H. Doolittle
Europe
Anel
Charleston
W. M. Given, Jr
U. S. Employment Service
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WMC
Jap Fleet Dared to Come Out on Saipan Assault
Onboard the carrier flag ship off Saipan naval experts predict a crushing Marianas assault. They say Japan will likely avoid a decisive naval battle, preferring to retreat, as American carrier planes and battleship bombardment prepare a prolonged pre-landing attack. The plan aims to reach Tokyo area airfields and block reinforcements, with strong American carrier units to support invasion divisions.
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Apendirec
Jian
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Palau
Rott
Guar
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Iowa Jima
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Marshalls
Baering Down By Arthur Bugs Baer
A fragmentary critique by Arthur Bugs Baer mocks a state department formula and its Balkan impact. The piece likens opponents to a woman fleeing a burning boarding house and then reigniting a second fire.
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Bugs” Baer
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