Postwar planning debates and free speech under wartime strain
In a broad column of opinion and editorial notes, the piece discusses World War II era issues including free speech rulings, the treatment of seditious statements after Pearl Harbor, and a speculative look at postwar European federation versus union. It references Attorney General Biddle, Walter Winchell, and calls for national unity while debating economic and geopolitical futures.
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Walter Winchell
Los Angeles
United States
Hawaii
Sion
Biddle
G-Men
Robert K. Noble
Nobile
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian Islands
U. S
Noble
Mr. Biddle
Robert Noble
United States of Europe
Britain
Russia
United States of America
Hitler
Europe
London
Washington
Union
Chinese unitys fragility muddles Far East plans
The excerpt notes that prospects in the Far East are unclear and suggests naive ideas of handing Japan to China and Russia for assimilation. It argues China is unstable and not united, predicting internal strife as Chinese factions clash in coming months.
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Alabama
Associated Press
Adeouated
Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics
Stalin
Russia
Far East
Japan
China
India
Frontline Fight and Justice Backing Revealed
A critical line questions the actions of Mr. Biddle of the Department of Justice in backing fighting men on the front. The piece contrasts public knowledge of soldiers' efforts with the unseen work of the justice official to shield them.
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America
Mr. Biddle
Department of Justice
Postwar world order and the rise of a unified Americas
The author envisions a postwar world with the United States forming a close hemispheric bloc, Britain and its dominions intact, and a diminished long term role for Germany France and Italy. He argues for moral renewal and spiritual foundations as essential to a stable peace, warning that strife erodes Christian values and that civilization needs justice and kindness to endure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Britain
Germany
France
Italy
Aycock Names Six Bowl Picks From SEC
W Frank Aycock Jr, manager of national advertising for The Birmingham News, wrote on November 24 his forecast of eight football teams likely to be bowl contenders. He correctly picked six of them and all but two of the all SEC eleven.
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Birmingham
Ala
Frank Aycock, Jr
Birmingham News
S.E.C
The Gate of the Coming Year and Humorous Vignettes
A collage of light verse and jokes including a musing about the gate of the coming year a Scotch sign gag a bear tale a film actress joke a dress purchase punch line a rifle range quip and a domestic ironing incident all in a newspaper humor page style with multiple brief scenes and voices.
Go Softly Into Spring Amid War and Dreams
A poetic lament urges the old year to pass without waking fears as dawn glows scarlet and a white dove soars. The verse imagines spring restoring quiet after conflict while a schoolboy craves a history that repeats itself.
Walter Winchell on Broadway finds Hollywood run for Hank Wales
Walter Winchell narrates Hank Wales's career arc from European chief of the Chicago Tribune’s Foreign Service to Hollywood writer and back, noting Wales’s tough leadership, the rise and fall of reporters, and anecdotes about his wartime stance and journalistic influence.
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Walter
Bill Shirer
Wsen
Moscow
Bill
Eden
Hank Wales
Chi Trib
Foreign Service
Gibbons
Kernel
Hollywood
Vincent Sheean
Mamond Taylor
Hank
Europe
Hawk
Wales
Vincent On
Alfonso
Tribune
Sheeng
Sheean
Chicago
Shirer
Taylor
Jameses
Forrests
P. S
Household sewing machines produced in US in census figures
The Census Bureau reports that annually 335 442 household type electric sewing machines are manufactured in the United States and 121 756 foot and hard powered machines are produced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Hess Letter Sparks Nazi Plotting Across England
In Place Elegante a report says Rudolph Hess received a letter about his treatment in England. Hitler read the glowing account to party members and condemned British pampering. The group rose, saying they would save Hess.
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Elegante
Rudolph Hess
Germany
England
Hitler
Man
Hess
Notable quotes from Knox Lindbergh and weather humor
The piece riffs on Secretary Knox saying he has never been bored and cites Lindbergh as a military expert claiming German invincibility. It contrasts with a New York Post weather joke about censorship and ongoing conditions, noting a reaction to weather forecasts and rheumatic complaints.
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Knox
Lindergh
Russia
Russkys
N. Y. Post
Editorial Opposes Noise in News Broadcasts
An editorialist argues to remove audio cues that amplify drama in news delivery. The piece asserts news can be exciting without dinging sounds and likens attention strategies to bold newspaper headlines.
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