Truman Starts Strong as New Leader After Roosevelt
The editorial praises President Truman’s early moves to continue Roosevelt’s foreign policies and to proceed with the San Francisco conference. It notes his restraint in delivering an opening address, plans to meet Churchill and Stalin, and his selection of capable advisors. Domestic plans remain uncertain, with cabinet shifts likely and speculation about personnel changes.
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Harry Truman
San Francisco
Representatives of Nations
Truman
Roosevelt
Mr. Truman
Churchill
Mr. Stalin
Mr. Roosevelt
United States
President Truman
Senate
Europe
Biddle
Labor Perkins
Anterior Ickes
Commerce Wallace
Jimmie Byrnes
Harry Byrd
Harry Hopkins
Washington
North Carolina Plans Postwar Game and Fish Development
The department of conservation and development maps a long term program for game and fish in North Carolina after the war. The plan envisages four and a half to five million dollars in spending, over a million man days of labor, and several years of work with funding from licenses, general funds, and federal cooperation. Key elements include a state game survey, expanded fish hatcheries in Cumberland, McDowell, and Avery counties, a new smallmouth bass hatchery in the Piedmont, a state fisheries research center, and acquisition of lands via Pittman-Robertson funds.
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North Carolina
Department of Conservation and Development
State General Fund
Cumberland
McDowell
Avery
Piedmont
Pittman-Robertson Fund
North Carolina to Pursue Large State Wildlife Survey Project
A major program with about $300,000 earmarked for wildlife studies aims to launch a statewide wildlife survey this year. The effort, led by the division of game and inland fisheries, seeks a comprehensive study to guide project locations and funding for years. The plan faces potential delays from politics, land relinquishments, and public agency restructuring.
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Division of Game and Inland Fisheries
North Carolina
Wartime Retribution Echoes From Pacific Front
A veteran recounts brutal Japanese actions at a medical dressing station and bayoneting wounded, noting Allied anger over atrocities and warning against reconciliation talk. The account, tied to Roosevelt’s observer remarks, underscores a resolve to retaliate for wartime crimes.
Cruelty Claims Rise in War Time Murders and Detentions
An American relief official cites postwar mass killings and evolving evidence of brutalities as General patterns in occupied Europe. A returnee officer describes Alsace camps where political prisoners bore red markers and Gestapo abuse shifted to blue indicating sexual perversion in civilian jails.
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Warsaw
United States
Germany
Himmiler
Alsace
Seventh Army
Gestapo
Wilson and Roosevelt on peace a moralist vs real politik
The article contrasts Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt over peace aims. It notes Wilson’s Fourteen Points opposed to secrecy, while condemning Versailles and League realities. It cites Roosevelt’s misreading of Wilson and his own Atlantic Charter amid secret diplomacy.
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Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
League of Nations
Japan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Senate
Metternich
Napoleon
Roosevelt
San Francisco’s War Aims: A Moral Bill of Rights for Nations
The piece argues for a moral charter to replace war and secret treaties. It cites Sokolsky on Roosevelt’s realism, Hoover’s proposed standards, and Vandenberg’s code, urging a sincere effort to abolish war and recognize individual human rights within an international order.
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Wilson
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Stalin
Keynes
San Francisco
Germany
Japan
Herbert Hoover
Arthur Vandenburg
Yalta
Dumbarton Oaks
Francisco
Man
Cain and Abel
Behind the News Washington on World Order and San Francisco Conference
The article argues Russia seeks a big powers world order while the United States defends smaller nations and Atlantic Charter principles. It questions Dumbarton and San Francisco treaty outcomes, bases policy, and the balance of power with Britain China France and the Netherlands amid postwar empire ambitions.
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Washington
San Francisco
Stalin
Assembly of Small Nations
Poland
Rumania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
United States
League of Nations
Philippines
Car Order
San Energely
Nalive
Churchil
China
Latin America
Russia
Council
Britain
Policy shifts and world power in a changing postwar era
The speaker argues for a pragmatic change in national strategy to protect security and preserve influence. He critiques continuing ideals that require relinquishing bases, Philippines control, and Atlantic Charter commitments. Proposes a temporary postwar policy based on security with eventual expanded freedoms.
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Sian
Council
Roosevelt
San Francisco
Philippines
Iceland
Broadway Gossip and Stars in Wartime Pulse
A vivid collage of Broadway talent and society notes front pages of entertainment life. Gossip spans Gov. Harwood in Virgin Islands, Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Irving Berlin, Damon Runyon, Beatrice Kay, and others amid wartime mood and New York venues.
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Chas. Harwood
Virgin Islands
Armando
Elmer Thomas
Okla
Frank Sinatra
Sherman Billingsley
Central Park
Beatrice Kay
Cerutti
OPA Denies Uniform Size Drink Demand
Mabel Taliaferro wore a Bloomer Girl costume weighing 52 lbs while her own weight was 98. The piece mentions Don Ameche’s sister Catherine marrying Pvt J J Breen, a wounded veteran, from a blind date seven years prior. Sam Rabbit, Mills music contest winner for amachoors, works as a bottle washer at Nat's Dairy and promotes his song Juke Box Luke on two radio shows.
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OPA
Mabel Taliaferro
Mabel
Don Ameche
Catherine
J. J. Breen
Sam Rabbit
Amachoors
Luke
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Parker
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Follies
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Stars and Stripes
Tony Pastor
Perry Como
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Fred Waring
Kitty Carlisle
Versailles
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Sid Gary
WMCA
Thurz
Hummert
Betty Grable
Warren-Gordon
Times Square
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Bklyn Gazette
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Manhattan
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