Marshall Warned of Hawaii P-36 Shortage Before War
Gen. George C. Marshall testified he decided early in 1941 to remove most of the United States combat pursuit squadrons of P-36 planes to defend Hawaii. He said there was no Roosevelt commitment to war before Pearl Harbor and noted the air threat as the No 1 danger. The testimony came amid a congressional inquiry into prewar actions and agreements with the Navy.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
United States
Hawaii
Marshall
Army
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
William D. Mitchell
Tchell
Harbor
British loan to Britain hailed as boon to world trade
The United States agreed to lend Britain 4.4 billion dollars with congressional and parliamentary approval. Negotiations in Washington produced a 50 year repayment plan starting 1946, with no interest for five years and about eight eight million dollars annually thereafter. London press greeted the deal as a Magna Carta for world trade.
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London
United States
Britain
Congress
Washington
Daily
Sketch
Laborite Daily Herald
Arrest Warrant Targets Japan War Leaders in Tokyo
Tokyo dispatch reports General MacArthur ordered arrest of former prime ministers Prince Konoye and Marquis Kido on war crimes charges. Additional wartime leaders were listed as suspects as Kyodo News noted Idehara’s cabinet faced a setback over Nashimoto’s reprieve. The wave of indictments signals a sweeping postwar accountability push.
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Tokyo
Pumimaro Konoye
Koichi Kido
MacArthur
Konoye
Japan
Kido
Hirohito
Diet
Kinuro
Kyodo
Idehara
Fince Morisama Nashimoto
M'Arthur
Mao Tze Tung Says Peace Or War Hinges On Chiang Response
Yenan dispatch says peace or war in China rests on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek accepting a broad democratic coalition. Yenan leaders deny Chiang will join the government with Communists and criticize Hurley’s mission failure. Mao’s forecast for a coalition state envisions a mixed economy and common ownership for ordinary people.
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Mao Tze-Tung
China
Chiang
Yenan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Patrick Hurley
United States
Chungking
Mao
Uni
Atom Bomb Rays Kill Japanese Weeks After Blasts
Dr Philip Morrison described radiation from atomic bombs that harmed blood forming tissues and caused fatal infections weeks after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He testified to the Senate Atomic Energy Committee that those within miles died from heat or blast, while others succumbed to radium like rays affecting bone marrow and blood function.
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Washington
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Philip Morrison
Special
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Morrison
University of Ilinois
Republicans Map Off-Year Election Agenda in Chicago
Congressional Republicans met in Chicago to approve an interim platform for the 1946 elections. Key provisions call for full UN support, a strong defense, tax relief and debt reduction, removal of wartime controls, and labor rights with collective bargaining. A labor plank was deleted before approval.
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Congressional Republicans
Washington
Congress
Chicago
House
Senate
United Nations Organization
GM Auto Workers strike nears wage talks hopeful for settlement
Detroit bulletin reports rising optimism as General Motors and the CIO Auto Workers prepare for the first wage negotiations in 16 days of walkout. Both sides had not issued formal statements, but one report suggested a possible peace within ten days.
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Detroit
General Motors
CIO Auto
Possible Wedge Reopening Wage Deadlocks
Washington reports the administration proposed a wage policy shift by raising the cost of living rise to about 33 percent from 29.5 or 30 percent, suggesting revised basis for price case decisions under Truman’s plan. General Motors and the CIO Auto Workers resumed talks over a 30 percent pay demand, after GM countered with a 10 percent offer and the union rejected it, leading to withdrawal of the proposal.
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Washington
John C. Collet
Collet
Truman
Ag- See
Congress Faces Stormy Session on Pearl Harbor, Labor
Gen George C Marshall headlines Adams Capitol hearings recalling the Pearl Harbor attack as four year commemorations unfold. Congress debates reconversion strike settlement legislation praised as the administration plan to curb major industry disruptions amid fact finding. Maj. Gen Hurley to testify on his China ambassadorship resignation amid charges of disloyal obstruction.
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George C. Marshall
Pearl Harbor
Capitol Hill
Marshall
Truman
Congress
Ramspeck
D-Ga
House Labor Committee
Patrick
J. Hurley
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hurley
China
West Virginia Briefs Include Train Crash and Honors
Buckhannon reports a car at state route 20 crossing struck by a Baltimore and Ohio train killing Van Clark 50 and injuring his widow and stepson Den sil Conrad 23. driver Earl Conrad 26 survived being thrown 25 feet. Charleston proclaims Dec 8 Sister Kenny Day and promotes Elizabeth Kean fund drive. Beckley Horace Mills 49 held after fatal shooting of son in law Clarence Miller Jr and ordered to state institution as mentally unbalanced. Charleston Charles Rogers named social worker for tuberculosis control bureau of state health department. Page 4.
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van Clark
Weston
Densil Conrad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
H. A. Zigafoose
Earl Conrad
Conrad Brothers
Charleston
Beckley
Horace Mills
Clarence Preston Miller, Jr
Winding Gulf
Harry McCreery
McCreery
Mills
Robert Winston
Charles W. Rogers
Bureau of Tuberculosis Control
State Health Department
J. B Offner
Rogers
West Virginia
Bridges presses for answers on Hurley resignation
Senator Bridges demanded a public accounting from the State Department after Brig. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley testified that he was sabotaged in China and Washington. He asked why subordinates undermined his work why they remain in diplomatic posts and why the president and secretary did not publicly support Hurley. Hurley was recalled for more testimony as Byrnes prepared to present the department's side.
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Washington
Bridges
Senate
Patrick J. Hurley
China
Hurley
Chungking
New Englander
Truman
Byrnes
Rudges
Secretary of State Department
State Department
Bomb hurled at Egyptian politician but no injuries
A Reuters dispatch from Cairo reports a bomb was hurled today at Nahas Pasha, leader of the Wafd party and former Egyptian premier, but he escaped injury.
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Sulletin
London
reuters @spateh
Cairo
Nahas Pasha
Egypt
English life in Britain shifts as class lines fall
Dewitt Mackenzie notes the melting pot trend in London. He observes changes in class distinctions, landed gentry decline, and rising incomes as the new labor government clashes with conservatives led by Churchill in the house of commons. He contrasts foreign and local views. The piece signals broader social and economic transformation.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
London
British Empire
England
House of Commons
Labor
Churchill
M'Kenzie
Strike Prevention Legislation Begins Congress Journey
Washington reports that strike prevention legislation, pitting Truman against organized labor, moves through Congress. Introduced in the House by Chairman Norton, it goes to labor committee with a plan for brief hearings next week and likely approval in its present form. Ramspeck says the goal is Christmas enactment to curb major industry strikes by authorizing fact finding commissions when a sitaution threatens a strike, with a 30 day pause on strikes, work stoppages, or lockouts.
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Truman
Organized Labor
Congress
House
Norton
D-Nj
Labor Committee
Ramspeck
Dga
Secretary of Labor
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