Word Withheld On War Talks After Tehran Conference
London dispatch reports Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin withholding official word on the Tehran talks. Aimed at hastening Germany's defeat, the delay sparked speculation as the Allies return from Iran and German broadcasts hint at plans for a major invasion of Europe.
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Richard G. Maslock
London
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Germany
Europe
Teheran
Iran
Moscow
Washington
White House
Stephen T. Early
Ismet Inonu
Turkey
Cairo
Russia
Japan
Lissimo
Chiang Kai-shek
Africa
Roosevelt outlines a world federation pledge in wartime speech
Washington dispatch summarizes Roosevelt remarks as he says Allied pacts aim to forge a single world brain. He envisions a federation of nations with shared rights and a system ensuring peace, democracy, and equal rights for all liberated peoples.
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United
Cape Gloucester Air Base Hit in Heaviest Raid Yet
Allied forces dropped 179 tons of explosives on the Japanese Cape Gloucester air base in western New Britain. The base was left in flames with heavy damage as raids continued around Cape Gloucester Bergen Bay and Gasmata. In New Guinea Thunderbolts fought 24 enemy fighters over Wewak, downing four. Australians pressed in the Huon peninsula to seize a point.
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Southwest Pacific
New Britain
Cape Gloucester
Cape Glenawater
Japan
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Bergen Bay
Gasmata
Thunderbolts
Wewak
Huon Peninsula
Associated Press
Mid- Pacific Marshal Islands
Sumatra
Dutch East Indies
Singapore
Philippines
Ciyna
Rice Bowl
RAF Follows Up Raid On Leipzig With New Attacks
British RAF bombers swarmed toward Berlin then shifted to Leipzig in a 1500 ton assault. The decoy raid on Berlin drew most German fighters, while heavy force struck Leipzig’s rail yards and industries, leaving much of the city in ruins.
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RAF
Leipzig
W. W. Hercher
London
Berlin
Reich
Air Ministry
Brush-off club women form auxiliary at Allied HQ
Allied headquarters in Algiers reports proposal by Miss Trene M. Cozine to establish a women's auxiliary to the brush-off club. She argues many home front girls kept promises and letters, while some servicemen strayed, prompting the plan to support jilted officers and maintain morale.
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Allied
Algiers
Cupid
Trene M. Cozine
California Avenue
Santa Monica
Calif
Howard Hammersley
Miss Cozine
Truck Lines Tied Up By Driver Strike
More than 500 local truck drivers and helpers walked out halting freight on 19 major lines in Atlanta area. K L Freight Lines reported three trucks attacked near Jonesboro and a car chase with two armed groups. driver shots caused a car to go off the road. Operators await the national stabilization office guidance on a proposed three cent per hour wage increase.
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Atlanta
National Stabilization Office
Jonesboro
Lawton Shaw
Shaw
Jacksonville
Macey
Eleven Missing After Liberty Ship Wreck Near Alaska
The 13th naval district reports 11 men missing and 70 survivors after a Liberty ship wrecked on an Alaskan island during a November 25 storm. Missing are seven soldiers one navy gun crew member and three crewmen. Last seen in a lifeboat near the island.
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Seattle
13Th Naval District
Navy
Censorship Talks On War News Breaks At White House
White House officials including Elmer Davis Stephen Early and Byron Price conferred for two hours on preventing premature and uneven news breaks from major Allied conferences. Davis urged better handling for the next conference hoping for a general agreement that gives equal breaks for all press and radio outlets.
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Washington
White House
North Africa
Teheran
Iran
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
Byron Price
Davis
State Department
Russia
Moscow
Early
Reds Capture 30 Villages Near Gomel
Russian forces push toward Zhiobin eight miles away and seize 30 towns and hamlets, including Gorodets and Rogachev, as German withdrawals shrink the Dnieper line. Rokossovsky drives toward Zhrobin aided by heavy artillery amid poor weather.
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Lear Great Quanti
Saukete
Markian M. Popov
Dnieper
Mogilev
Constantine Rokossovsky
Zhrobin
Gorodets
Zhiobin
Rogachev
Leningrad-Odessa
Minsk-Gomel
Upper
Kiev
Zhitomir
Korosten
Ovruch
Merchant Gets Fine and Sentence On OPA Count
Federal Judge A B Lovett fined Sam Friedman of Brunswick $1000 and sentenced him to two years in prison on guilty pleas to OPA charges for selling eight electric irons and three sets of bobby pins above ceiling prices. The judge offered to suspend the sentence if Friedman provided complete restitution to all overcharged customers. OPA attorneys called the stipulation unusually lenient.
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Savannah
A. B. Lovett
Sam Friedman
Brunswick
OPA
Friedman
Fifth Army Drives Into Heart Of German Lines
Allied headquarters report U S Fifth Army led by Lt Gen Mark Clark breaches the German winter line two miles deep and pushes toward Rome after a titanic air and artillery bombardment that drove some troops to surrender or mental breakdown.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
Mark W. Clark
Fifth
Rome
Von Papen Defends Turkey as War Entry Debate Rages
German Ambassador Franz Von Papen surfaces in Istanbul after two weeks abroad, urging Turkish public support to stay out of war. He claims to have saved Turkey from German attack in 1941 and 1942, and accuses Allies of pressuring Turkey into war while pledging continued collaboration to avert regional disaster. In Europe’s front lines, American and British offensives press hard along Monte Camino and near Cassino, with heavy fighting and significant prisoner captures as Allied forces push through the Italian front.
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Istanbul
Franz von Papen
Turkey
Berlin
Germany
Europe
von Papen
Clark
el Alamein
Egypt
Fifth
Monte Camino
Mignano
Cassino
Camino
Maggiore
Eighth Army
Adriatic
San Vito
Lanciano
Montgomery
Treglio
Orsogna
Sangro River
Provisional Yugoslav Regime Set by Partisans
The Yugoslav Partisans broadcast a provisional government in opposition to the Cairo-exiled regime. Ivan Ribar heads the new government with Tito named field marshal and national defense chairman. Delegates claim 140 members and three vice presidents Mosa Pidje Ivan Augustinic and Josip Rus.
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London
Free Yugoslav Radio Today
Cairo
Russia
Develt
United Nations
Balkan
Hitler
Ivan Ribar
Constitutional Assembly
Yugoslavia
Serb Democratic Party
Josip Broz
Tito
Committee For National Defense
Broz
Russians hail tri power meet in Tehran conference
Moscow reports that Stalin met Roosevelt and Churchill at Teheran. The mass dispatch only noted that the conference occurred with no details. News prompts widespread discussion in Moscow as relations among the three powers are portrayed as increasingly friendly.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Roosevelt
Churchill
Teheran
Iran
Jittery Japanese Increase Patrols as Allies Seek Pacific Attacks
Allied strategists eye new eastern and western Pacific offensives as Japan boosts mid pacific patrols and defense on Sumatra. MacArthur reports show limited Japanese air activity with heavy losses, while Burma Thai land raids scale up and Rangoon targets loom. Mountbatten may plan multi directional strikes toward Singapore and the Malayan peninsula.
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Burma
Thailand
Rangoon
Sumatra
Malayan Peninsula
Marshall Islands
Mid- Pacific
Gilbert Islands
Tarawa Atoll
Lillad
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Army and Navy Journal
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Speken
Ge Pti
Sam Rogers
Office of Stabilization
Stabilization Board
Gomel
James M. Long
Khalch
Merchant
U.S
Sangro
Fossacosia
Don Whitehead
Nsec.a
Southern Pacific
Douglas
Malayan
Louis Mountbatten
India
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