Hitler’s Col lapse and the German Militarist Legacy
The piece weighs Hitler’s possible collapse as a turning point while warning that removing the dictator alone won’t end German militarism. It traces militarism to Prussia and asserts the core danger remains in the German military tradition, with Eden urging united Allied effort against Germany and Japan-Italy.
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Germany
Japan
Italy
Reich
Hitler
Goering
Prussia
Frederick the Great
Austria
Hoover Seeks Lasting Peace Through New Approach
Former President Herbert Hoover told a joint Iowa legislature session that victory alone won't yield peace. He blamed six dynamic forces—ideologies, economic pressures, nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and fear—saying peace requires addressing political, territorial, economic, and ideological questions at a foundational level. He warned that failing to meet these challenges means renewed war.
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Des Moines
Herbert Hoover
Iowa
Hoover
U S Mitchell Bombers Hit Mareth Line In North Africa
Allied air action over Tunisia reports U S Mitchell bombers raiding Mareth Line positions near Medenine as weather limits ground offensives. Spitfires and Warhawks escort the raids, while RAF fighters defend shipping off Algeria and enemy convoy activity increases.
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North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Eighth Army
Tunisia
Western Desert Air Force
Rommel
Bernard L. Montgomery
Medenine Plains
RAF
Tunisian
Sicily
Church Leader Succumbs To Heart Attack In Lexington
Dr. Jacob Calvin Leonard Sr., 76, longtime Evangelical and Reformed Church leader and former pastor emeritus of First Church Lexington since 1939, died of a heart attack at home. Survived by widow Willie Cress Leonard and son Dr. J. C. Leonard Jr., funeral at First Church after viewing.
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Lexington
Mar
Jacob Calvin Leonard
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Willie Cress Leonard
J. C. Leonard
Leonard
General Synod In America
Southern Synod
Catawba College
Kaiser Eyes Brewster Plant Buy In East Coast Bid
Henry J. Kaiser, the West Coast shipbuilder, is reportedly weighing an offer to lease or purchase Brewster Aeronautical Corp plants in Hatboro Pa and nearby sites as Brewster directors prepare for a meeting. Kaiser recently agreed to buy Fleetwings Inc. and is active in aerospace deals. The Brewster group operates plants in Hatboro Newark and Long Island City with about 18 000 employees.
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New York
Henry J. Kaiser
West Coast
Brewster Airplane
Brewster Aeronautical Corp
Kaiser
Brewster
Dow Jones
Business News Service
Wallace To Tour Latin America
Vice President Wallace announced a seven country Latin American trip beginning March 18 with a stop in San Jose Costa Rica for the inauguration of the Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences. He travels by commercial plane to Tumalba Panama Chile Bolivia Peru Ecuador and Colombia. He is joined by Laurence Duggan and Hector Lazo from the State Department and the Office of Experts.
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Washington
Wallace
San Jose
Costa Rica
Tumalba
Intern-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Panama
Chile
Bolivia
Peru
Ecuador
Colombia
Laurence Duggan
State Department
Hector Lazo
Office of Experts
Board of Economic Warfare
Italians Claim 23500-Ton Canadian Liner Sunk By Sub
Italian high command says the 23500 ton Empress of Canada, a troop carrier for the Canadian Pacific fleet, was sent to the bottom by an Italian submarine under Lieut Gianfranco Gazzana. Allied confirmation was not yet available.
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Rome
Associated Press Today
Atlantic
Canadian Pacific Railway
Glasgow
Germany
High Command
Lieut
Gianfranco Gazzana
Milan
Berlin
Veteran aviator Clarence Schiller dies in Bermuda crash
Montreal report says Capt. Clarence Duke Schiller, famed World War I and RAF ferry pilot, was killed in a night landing crash in Bermuda. Other crew members reportedly perished and one may be injured. Schiller, once with Gar Wood in Detroit, had flown commercially in the Midwest and Florida and aided the trans Atlantic Bremen mission rescuers in 1928.
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Montreal
Clarence
Duke) Schiller
Bermuda
Schiller
United States
Gar Wood
Detroit
Middle West
Florida
Royal Air Force
Royal Flying Corps
Labrador
Greeneley Island
Hermann Koehl
Baron Gunther von Tuenefeld
James Fitzmaurice
No Quick Finish To Conflict Says Secretary Hull
Secretary of State Hull warned the war would be longer than quick judgments suggest after meetings with Anthony Eden. He echoed Eden’s warning against hasty conclusions about war duration and noted Eden’s discussion with Vice-President Wallace on a United Nations collaboration proposal to be submitted to the Senate by six senators.
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Washington
Hull
Florida
Anthony Eden
Eden
Wallace
United Nations
Senate
Job Dissatisfaction Absenteeism Cause
J Milton Patterson, president of the American Welfare Association and Maryland’s public welfare head, said the remedy for the absentee problem lies in heightening industrial workers’ morale. He noted many absences stem from job dissatisfaction and misfits, and urged renewed effort to keep workers engaged through labor-management conferences.
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Baltimore
J. Milton Patterson
American Welfare Association
Patterson
Maryland
Department of Public Welfare
Labor and
New Gathering Axis Threatens Of Jap Ships is Reported
Australian bulletin reports growing Japanese shipping concentrations near Banda Sea bases within 500 miles of Darwin. Allied airmen blasted two ships in an enemy convoy off Wewak New Guinea and an 8,000 ton transport was seen ablaze. The note warns Japanese garrisons in Amboina Dobo area reinforced as new airfields arise.
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Australia
Banda Sea
Darwin
MacArthur
Wewak
New Guinea
Amboina
Ambon
Dobo
Netherlands East Indies
Ambroiia
Allied
Lae
Court grants rehearing in Murder Inc leaders case
The Supreme Court agreed to review the conviction of Louis Lepke Buchalter Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone for the murder of Joseph Rosen a Brooklyn storekeeper. The trio sentenced to die at Sing Sing previously had a rehearing denied on February 15 but today the court granted a new hearing.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter
Emanuel Weiss
Louis Capone
Murder, Inc
Joseph Rosen
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Revolting French Youths Stand Against German Labor Hours
Geneva paper La Suisse reports several thousand armed French youths rebel along Lake Geneva shore to avoid forced labor in Germany. Italian troops and mobile guards pursue from St. Gingolph region while former French officers command guerrilla bands. Supplies and arms arrive nightly from foreign agents as groups communicate by radio and messengers. Movement aims to avoid work for Germany, not politics, with hope for Allied invasion to aid.
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Bern
Switzerland
Marcel
France
Lake Geneva
Geneva
la Suisse
Germany
St. Gingolph
Haute Savoie
Evian
UNC Law Schools Plan Unified Structure For War Emergency
The UNC executive committee approved a plan to consolidate the law schools of Duke University Wake Forest College and UNC during the war emergency. The proposal rotates the 1943 44 term to Duke Chapel Hill and Wake Forest. Governor Broughton announced the plan after a meeting aimed at preserving each school's integrity while coordinating during wartime enrollment declines.
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Raleigh
University of North Carolina
Duke University
Wake Forest
Duke
Chapel Hill
Broughton
Eden Starts Conferences on Post War Settlements
British foreign secretary Anthony Eden arrives in Washington for talks with Secretary Hull on war and post war issues. He meets with Secretary Knox, Undersecretary Welles, and other officials, plus a briefing by Sir Arthur Salter. He attends a White House briefing and watches the desert victory film sent by Winston Churchill.
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Eden
Knox
Navy Department
Arthur Salter
Welles
Stimson
Roosevelt
White House
RAF Fighters Push Attacks On Europe
RAF fighters pressed attacks on rail links in occupied Europe and Germany during last night’s air offensive. British Spitfires and Whirlwind bombers swept over France and hit Abbeville and Maupertus near Paris. Four RAF fighters were lost and two enemy aircraft were shot down in daylight raids. four enemy trains were wrecked in overnight air sweeps.
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London
Europe
Air Ministry
Germany
Abbeville
Maupertus
Paris
Taxes And Postwar Problems Dominated Capitol Proceedings
Washington March 15 millions filed income tax returns as the deadline loomed. Congress debated Beardsley Ruml plan for a pay as you go tax while Roosevelt opposed it and Ways and Means eyed renewal of reciprocal trade agreements. Eden’s Washington visit sharpened focus on postwar international roles and a Senate resolution for closer United Nations collaboration.
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Washington
Congress
House
Beardsley Ruml
New York
Roosevelt
Ruml
Anthony Eden
United States
House Ways and Means Committee
Eden
Russian Counterattacks After Kharkov Push
Russian High Command said Red Army fought heavy German tank and infantry assaults around Kharkov with stubborn defense and withdrawals to new lines after fierce fighting. In Vyazma area the central front advance continued, seizing Semlevo district center and rail station. Nine hundred Germans reported killed as Soviet units pushed south toward Smolensk.
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London
Red Army
Kharkov
Great
Ukraine
Come Munique
Vyazma
Moscow
Semlevo
Bely
Smolensk
Waffen SS
Attacks Hit Jap Positions in Aleutians and Pacific
Navy reports American planes strafed Kiska and damaged grounded Japs. In the South Pacific, fighters near Rendova Island destroyed a small Japanese vessel and Liberators attacked near Shortland Island, Munda, and Vila. All U.S. planes returned.
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Washington
Kiska
Aleutians
South Pacific
Rendova Island
Navy
North Pacific
Army
New Georgia Group
Shortland Island
Munda
Vilg
Solomons
United States
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Churchill
Connally
D-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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