Hitler's Berlin Speech Signals Enemy Weakness
Analyse notes that Hitler’s Berlin address, amid retreats, signals weakness and heightens Allied resolve. Sumner Welles predicts downfall. Litvinoff urges intensified efforts. The piece stresses caution not to overestimate German collapse and highlights Soviet counteroffensives as a turning force.
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Uruguay Ship Montevideo Torpedoed Off Haiti
The 5785 ton merchant ship Montevideo once named Adamello was torpedoed and sunk off Jeremie Haiti. Most of the crew were missing with the Uruguayan captain Rodriguez Varela rescued. Foreign Minister Guani said survivors’ whereabouts are unknown. The ship had been seized in protective custody at Montevideo in April after U S action against Axis ships.
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MacArthur in Australia as United Nations Commander
British and American reporting focuses on potential northern theaters as Germany tightens grip on Norway and reinforcement of Trondheim ramps up. Tirpitz may be loose on high seas threatening Arctic convoys to Murmansk and complicating Allied supply routes to the Soviet Union.
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Continuing Russian Gains On Eastern Front At Kharkov
Soviet front dispatches report continued Russian successes against German forces across three sectors. Timoshenko’s southwest offensive aims to liberate Kharkov as the breach widens, while German losses mount in the Kalinin area and Staraya Russa. The Red Army tightens its ring around Staraya Russa as air superiority grows and ground recaptures continue.
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Chinese Kill Hundreds Of Siamese Troops In Burma Clash
Reuters dispatch from Bombay reports a Burma command communique saying Chinese forces in the Burma war zone killed hundreds of Thai soldiers in a Tongtong area clash about 170 miles from Chiangmai. The engagement is termed contact with Siamese patrols near the Chengai region, recently bombed by RAF aircraft.
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Navy reports sinking of medium US merchant ship off Atlantic coast
Bulletin from Washington says a medium-sized United States merchant vessel was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast. No name or tonnage disclosed, and no further details released. In Montevideo on March 17 the government announced the 5,785-ton Monteverde had been torpedoed off Haiti with seven lives lost and ordered seizure of the German ship Tacome in reprisal.
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Exiled Norway Regime Reveals Nazi Torture Pamphlet
The Norwegian government in exile published a pamphlet detailing Gestapo torture in Oslo. It describes beatings, ice-water exposure, sleep deprivation, and forced confessions at a former foreign ministry mansion turned secret police HQ, based on a refugee’s testimony to a Stockholm judge.
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MacArthur Change Cheers Washington
Washington reacts to General MacArthur arriving in Australia as supreme commander of United Nations forces. Senators Hayden Connally praise his leadership and morale impact, while Hattie Caraway quips relief for home supporters who wanted MacArthur stay.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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French Morocco Orders British Reinterned
Reuters from Tangier reports French authorities in Morocco ordered internment of about 2,000 British subjects aged 18 to 50. The move, in reprisal for RAF bombing of occupied France, echoes Vichy actions last summer when British nationals were moved inland from the Riviera and Mediterranean coast.
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Pair Charged As Nazi Spies
New York report: two German born men, Richard Fruendt and Peter Donay, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transmit information to Germany. They face up to death or 30 years in prison. bail set at $25,000 each. Co conspirators named include Alfred Brokhoff and Gustav Karecher plus Richard Weber, all linked to wartime espionage cases.
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James D. Savin
Production Dispute Near Showdown in War Talks
Washington reports a public push for faster war production drawing Congress and the Roosevelt administration toward drastic labor and industry legislation. A bill by Rep. Smith would end the 40 hour week, outlaw the closed shop, and cap defense contract profits at six percent. Hearings by the Naval Committee set for Thursday with expected quick action.
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War Production Board Textiles Division
MacArthur Relocates to Australia as Supreme Commander
General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to assume the supreme United Nations command in the southwest Pacific region, including the Philippine Islands. The transfer, requested by Australia and directed by President Roosevelt, follows delays to complete Philippine command arrangements and is accompanied by Mrs MacArthur and their son.
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WPB Head to Broadcast War Production Statement Tonight
Washington reports War Production Chief Donald M. Wolson will address the nation in a 9 30 to 10 p m Eastern War Time broadcast to counter Axis propaganda. The statement will include a brief dramatization of the speed up drive and outline joint management labor committees to steer production in wartime industry.
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Annament
Labor Yields Strike Right For Duration War
Washington March 17 leaders of organized labor announced labor has yielded its right to strike during the war as a solution to production and national unity. William Green and Philip Murray, after a White House meeting with the Labor War Board, said wage standards would be set through collective bargaining or mediation without strikes, to protect production. Japanese submarines report sinking 11 Allied ships totaling over 41,000 tons off India and Burma, with merchantmen and tankers sunk near Colombo Madras Rangoon.
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Congress
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American Federation of Labor
Philip Murray
CIO
White House
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National War Labor Board
FAPS
Tokyo
India
Burma
Colombo
Madras
Rangoon
Draft Lottery For New List Sets Tonight's Start
The first wartime draft lottery begins at 6 p m with 9 000 000 American men eligible for possible duty. Numbers drawn through the night will set the order for 1 650 000 young men ages 20 and 21 plus 7 350 000 older men 36 to 40 registered Feb 16. Inductions may begin next month. 17 500 000 men from prior peace-time calls have registered, some already inducted. The historic goldfish bowl from Independence Hall will be used to draw the first number, with Secretary Stimson overseeing.
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