Clarification Sought as U S Presses Franco on Armistice Terms
Washington reports authoritative U S demand for a written Franco declaration of future policy under the June 1940 armistice. Vichy urged to prove commitment in writing before any restoration of Franco American harmony. News from Martinique cites Emile Bertin and Bearn at sea for routine exercises, fueling speculation on their目的 and possible warlord intent.
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Vichy
France
Third Third Reich
Hull
U.S
Henry Haye
Hoe
Martinique
Emile Bertin
Bearn
Caribbean
United States
Island
Europe
North Africa
State Department
Sea Defenses Penetrated At Crete Invasion
Egyptian dateline reports German airborne troops penetrated Crete's outskirts of Canea and were quickly surrounded and accounted for. Communique says heavy fighting with serious enemy losses while Allied forces sustained lighter losses. Operations continue as waves of parachute and airborne troops landed at various points.
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Egypt
Canea
Crete
Middle East Command
Ransport
Ecumunique
High Command
Churchill
Heraclion
Candia
Retimo
Cairo
Middle East
New Zealand
Gov Olson Plea To Settle Coast Strike Declined
Striking CIO and AFL machinists in 11 San Francisco shipyards refused to return to work despite Governor Olson's plea for patriotic service. The yards hold 3300,000,000 in defense orders with 12 days on strike. AFL leaders pledged 15,000 shipbuilders back to work, vowing to resist the union’s position. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Yard balked at a closed shop until a signed contract, while a separate Ohio yard granted wage increases to end a machinists strike. Federal conciliator Dewey announced Detroit that UAW strike talks yielded an agreement.
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CIO
AFL
San Francisco
California
Culbert L. Olson
John Frey
Metal Trades Department
Olson
Bethlehem
Larain
Ohio
American Ship Building Company
Federal
James F. Dewey
Detroit
United Automobile Workers
French Told To Scuttle Ships If Intercepted
The French admiralty allegedly instructed masters of French merchantmen to scuttle their ships if intercepted by British warships. A British ministry statement said a copy of the orders, signed for Vice Premier Admiral Jean Darian by Rear Admiral Attephan, was in British possession. News also reports a union dispute near settlement between the AFL and Great Lakes Con. with canneries at issue and losses cited at $1,000,000.
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London
British Ministry of Economic Warfare
Jean Darian
Attephan
San Francisco
AFL
AFL International Longshoremen’s Association
Great Lakes
Diplomatic taps and aviation delays haunt 1940s notes
Ray Tucker reports on diplomatic secrecy eroding as Berlin Tokyo Moscow and Rome evade privacy through taps and surveillance. Hull advised patience while officials endure intrusions. Separate item describes Army red tape delaying anti Nazi aviation in South America and prompting WASP to buy German Condor planes amid priority battles.
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Ray Tucker
Trull
Berlin
Uncle Sam
England
Tokyo
Moscow
Rome
South America
Brazil
V.as.p
State Department
W.A.S.P
Soviet Policy Declared as Preparedness and Strength
Moscow May 21 The Stalinist government policy as described by Comsomol Pravda emphasizes independence and armed preparedness with neutrality in mind. It asserts the Red Army must be strongest, condemns expansion, and pledges firm foreign policy led by Stalin to defend socialist interests. Seven thousand Muscovites join air and gas defense drills May 23 and 24 to practice repelling paratrooper landings.
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Comsomol Pravda
Young Communist League
Red Army
Stalin
Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Vyacheslav Molotov
Middle East
Syria
Iraq
Britain
Air and Gas Defense Society
Women investigators cite 150 federal workers at New York peace meeting
Washington May 21. A House Un American Activities Subcommittee heard two women investigators testify that 150 government employees left Washington last month as delegates to a New York meeting sponsored by the American Peace Mobilization described by committee attaches as a Communist front. Miss Spargo said she infiltrated the group to study it from within. Miss Huffman said the Communist Party ordered units to organize peace groups while keeping the party’s tie in the background and Italians targeted after Italy entered the war. Chairman Starnes announced the group’s alleged goal to disrupt national unity and signaled full investigation of such organizations.
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Washington
House
UnAmerican
New York
American Peace Mobilization
Mary Spargo
Helen Huffman
New York City
Communist Party
Italy
Starnes
D-Ala
Italian torpedo planes sink British cruiser in eastern Mediterranean
Rome reports Fascist torpedo planes torpedoed a 10,000-ton British cruiser in the eastern Mediterranean. An Italian submarine was credited with sinking the 7,350-ton British steamer Lycaon in the Atlantic.
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Rome
High Command
Mediteranean
Atlantic
U. S. Envoys Ordered to Withdraw From Paris
Paris and Berlin dispatches say United States and other foreign diplomats must leave Paris by June 10. The withdrawal reportedly originated from the Wilhelmstrasse and was delivered to ambassadors and ministers in Berlin.
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Vichy
France
United States
Berlin
Paris
Wilhelmstrasse
RAF Assails German Bases Across Middle East and Crete
RAF heavy bombers struck Greek mainland German air bases in Crete and renewed raids hit Habbaniah Iraq, Raschid Iraq, and Syria airfields. British forces continued patrols over Libya while Axis transports at Gazala and near Tobruk faced machine gun fire. Malta was targeted in a new attack as well.
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Cairo
Egypt
RAF
Crete
KAP Middle East Command
Habbaniah
Iraq
RAE
Raschnid
Forest Fires Threaten North Carolina
Raleigh May 2 Assistant State Forester W C McCormick calls the wildfire situation the worst in 15 years as new blazes start faster than they can be extinguished A weather official notes no general rains are expected in the near term and crops suffer from drought with a six inch rainfall deficit nationwide.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
W. C. McCormick
McCormick
H. E. Kichline
Wether Bureau
Richline
Germans Fear Disclosures By Americans
Berlin reports German military authorities will prevent American ambulance drivers from revealing military information to the United States or Britain. Officials said this in response to questions about the fate of Americans captured after the Zamzam sinking. Donald Heath of the U S embassy met at the foreign office and received assurances of safety and access for consular visits.
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Berlin
United States
Britain
Donald Heath
Foreign Office
South Atlantic
St. Jean de Luz
France
de Gaulle
New York
Capetown
South Africa
Alexandria
Middle East
Allies Fight To Hurl Back Air Invasion
London reports Prime Minister Churchill warning of Crete battle continuing with increasing severity as 4,500 German airborne troops invade. He describes Suda Bay as Crete’s best anchorage and notes paratroopers, gliders, and aircraft losses while confirming some troops wore different uniforms.
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London
Churchill
Crete
House of Commons
Best
Suda Bay
Canea
George II
Greece
Living Conditions Around Camps Primitive Says Dr Reynolds
Pinehurst May 20. Dr Carl V Reynolds state health officer called living conditions around army and navy bases primitive and urged immediate emergency funding for medical, sanitary, water, housing, and malaria protection. He spoke to a joint session of the state board of health and state medical society warning of hazardous conditions as construction crews and families lack water, sewage, or food. He pressed swift passage of a bill to fund the relief and urged focus on civilian prep amid defense needs.
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Pinehurst
Carl V. Reynolds
State Board of Health and
State Medical Society
Army
Navy
North Carolina
Bcal
Cantonment
Reynolds
Nazis Claim Vital Points Held in Crete
German airborne troops say they landed in Crete and occupied several strategic points after heavy Luftwaffe attacks. Parachutists were directed to targets as officials awaited an official communique. Churchill accused German uniforms. Berlin reporters deny the claim and say operations develop as planned.
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Berlin
Crete
Luftwaffe
Navy unit attacked near Crete in heavy German strike
British naval unit west of Crete was hit by German warplanes with a direct hit on a cruiser, official German news agency reported. In Cairo Greek sources said British hold Crete but invaders still fought. In Vichy diplomatic sources said German equipment was moving across Turkey into Iraq by rail and Turkey denied demands for Syria.
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Berlin
Crete
DNE
Cairo
Egyt
Turkey
Vichy
Iraq
Istanbul
Syria
France
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