Attack on Pearl Harbor Known Far In Advance by Japanese
An analysis by Morris J Harris Lourenco Marques notes that millions of Japanese in China anticipated war with the United States. The piece describes secrecy, mobilization of soldiers and civilians in occupied China, and initial reactions to Pearl Harbor. It discusses both American shock and Japanese perspectives on further conquest and potential outcomes.
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Pearl Harbor
China
Morris J. Harris Lourencqo Marques
Portuguese East Africa
United States
Japan
Hawaii
mid-Pacific
Army
Navy
Air Force
Tokyo
Occu
Hitler risks a Europe changing war in the Caucasus effort
The piece argues that if Hitler breaks Russian resistance and seizes Caucasus oil and Persian Gulf access he could dominate Europe and beyond, risking immense German losses for vast strategic gains. It notes possible Russian halting and cautions against overconfidence if the effort only secures a barrier at the Caucasus.
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Russia
Caucasian
Persian Gulf
Caucasus
Hitler
Aladdin
Black Sea
Caspian
Rulings Challenged as Invalid by Saboteur Suspects
Seven of eight alleged Nazi saboteurs claim President Roosevelt’s wartime restraint on civil courts is invalid. The defense asks the Supreme Court to move the men from a military commission to civil trial, while the government argues military trials protect civil liberty and deny constitutional privileges to U. S. soldiers. Justice Douglas was absent at opening pledges.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Mace
Stone
Prosecution Council
Biddle
Germany
Murphy
Douglas
Tax Bill Seen As Death To Corporations
Clinton Davidson of Fiduciary Counsel Inc told the Senate Finance Committee that a 90 percent excess profits tax would kill corporations. He urged a postwar rebate and a recovery reserve for excess payments, noting his firm serves about 40 medium sized companies. The treasury proposes a 10 percent rebate, but the House kept a flat 90 percent tax.
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Washington
Clinton Davidson
Congress Today
Davidson
Senate Finance Committee
Fiduciary Counsel, Inc
Jersey City
Reserve
The
Treasury
House
War Production Board backs plant closures and contract rescissions
The piece argues that a lack of balance in prewar industrial planning led the War Production Board to shut down plants and shipyards and rescind negotiated contracts. It attributes delays to late wartime shifts in weapon priorities and reallocation of resources across aircraft, tanks, guns, and related sectors.
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War Production Board
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
Fight Fierce On Railroad To Oilfields
Moscow reports stiffening Russian defense in the Caucasus as German forces press toward Kushchevka Salsk and the Tikhoretsk Stalingrad railroad linking oil fields to Central Russia. Bridgehead battles, air combats, and three strategic aims shape the clash with Rostov abandoned but resistance urged.
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North Caucasus
Don River
Tsimlyansk
Novocherkassk
Rostov
Don Bend
Stalingrad
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Caucasus
Lower
Don
Kushchevka
Salsk
Tikhoretsk- Stalingrad
Russia
Red Army
Bataisk
Baku
Tikhoretsk
Sal
Izvestia
Red Star
Communist Party
Pravda
Allied Bombers Hit Suda Bay Crete And Tobruk
Cairo dispatch says Allied heavy bombers attacked the Axis supply port at Suda Bay Crete at dusk. U S bombers and the RAF also attacked Tobruk and Matruh, while coastal barges in the Egyptian Libyan frontier area were hit.
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Cairo
Suda Bay
Crete
el Alamein
Geveral
United States
RAF
Tobruk
Matruh
Galal
el Daba
Fuka
Sude Bay
Turkey
Anis
Engines To Shift To Cargo Planes Hindered By Engine Shortage
A WPB official testified before the Senate Defense Investigating Committee that a shortage of high horsepower engines slows the move to cargo and troop carrying aircraft. Harold E. Talbot said engines already in production are allocated through next year and that cargo plane programs have not been neglected.
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Washington
WPB
Harold E. Talbot
War Production Board
Senate Defense
Army
Navy
Donald MM. Nelson
Nelson
Talbot
Curtiss-Wright
Waco
Truman
D-Mo
Committee Cartel
Andrew Jackson Higgins
Germans Move To French Line
Germans march from Paris toward the invasion coast as SS troops relocate under Field Marshal Rundstedt. German dispatches hint at revised west defense plans amid debate on a second Allied front.
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Bern
Switzerland
Paris
Gerd von Rundstedt
National Zeitung
Basel
Hamburg Hit Again By Big RAF Attack
London reports another heavy RAF raid on Hamburg the second in three nights. Four bombers dropped 1,200 tons in Duisburg and Hamburg in late July while Berlin claims many German losses. Air Marshal Harris vows to scourge the Third Reich.
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Associated Press
London
RAF
Hamburg
Germany
Arthur T. Harris
Third Reich
Bremen
Berlin
Duisburg
Britain
Disturbance at Talmadge Rally Leads to Arrest in Georgia
In Statesboro Georgia a former gubernatorial candidate Robert F Wood was arrested after a disturbance at a Eugene Talmadge rally. Three cans with an unidentified liquid allegedly thrown at hecklers burned spectator Elvin Mitchell from Claxton. Wood denied involvement and was released on bond.
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Statesboro
Eugene Talmadge
Robert F. Wood
Edgar Hart
Wood
Talmadge
Bullouch County
Fred T. Lahier
Oxreechee
Elvin Mitchell
Claxton
Readings From Pelleys Autobiography In Sedition Trial
Excerpts from William Dudley Pelley’s autobiography were read in an Indianapolis court today as part of a sedition trial of a former Silver Shirts leader. The defense sought to bar the excerpts claiming they predated war and referenced clairvoyant statements but the judge ruled they showed the defendant’s state of mind.
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Pelley
Indianapolis
William Dudley Pelley
United States
Robert C. Baltzell
the Galilean
Republic
Europe
Germany
America
Hitler
Delaware
California
Allied Patrols Drive Back Japanese Outposts Near Port Moresby
General MacArthur's headquarters reports Allied patrols have driven back aggressive Japanese units from outposts near Kokoda in New Guinea, 60 miles from Port Moresby. Japanese advance into the Papuan Peninsula's Gona Mission area was met with Allied bombings and counterattacks, with no evidence of reinforcements at Gona Mission.
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Port Moresby
Guinea
General MacArthur
Australia
Kokoda
New Guinea
Oir
Gona
Papuan
Nokoda
MacaArthur
Gene Mission
Wakoda
Wothe
Owen Stanley
Gona Mission
Americans in West Africa Aid War Effort Say British
Lord Swintireboro, British resident minister to West Africa, states Americans are everywhere in the conflict and have cooperated with General Fitzgerald. The broadcast from Accra notes U S forces in the region sharing coop with British colonies including the Gold Coast, Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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London
Reuters
Lord
Dakar
Republic of Liberi
Portuguese Guinea
Coasta
FBI Seizes Ten Enemy Aliens In New York Raids
FBI announced the seizure of ten enemy aliens in raids across the Bronx Manhattan Queens and Brooklyn. Among those taken is Maria Sichart Kerling wife of Erward Kerling connected to a ring of Nazi saboteurs. The detainees include a Hungarian and two Romanians. They were transported to Ellis Island for processing.
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New York
Federal Bureau of Investigati
Maria Sichart Kerling
Erward Kerling
Trin
Washington
FBI
ER Island
Forworth
FBI Assista
Bronx
Manhattan
Fuel Oil Deliveries in East Suspended for 6 Weeks
Washington July 29. The War Production Board ordered all deliveries of fuel oil for heating and cooling equipment in the east between August 3 and September 15. Officials said the move aims to build reserves for next winter.
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Washington
War Production Board
Mdal
East
Sisehf
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Cherkassk
Astrakhan
Middle East
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By Ray Tucker
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