Lebanon Crisis and French Mandate Spark Middle East Tension
The piece outlines Lebanon’s bid for sovereignty under French mandate complexities. It notes clashes after Lebanese ministers were seized by a French delegate, rising Moslem-Christian tensions, and broader friction involving De Gaulle, De Gaulle’s forces, and international protests from Britain, the United States, and Saudi Arabia.
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Lebanon
Syria
America
Britain
France
de Gaulle
Georges Catroux
Jean-Louis Helleu
Middle East
Saudia Arabia
Ibn Saud
French
Committee of National Liberation
General de Gaulle
Algiers
United States
Catroux
United Nations
London
Washington
Food Is Seen As Instrument In Peace Talks
Roy F. Hendrickson of the U S Department of Agriculture urged that wartime food controls be swiftly relaxed after peace while maintaining basic rules. He warned against postwar famine and said aid to liberated areas should win allies for the common enemy and support from the United Nations.
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New York
Roy F. Hendrickson
Food Distribution Administration
U. S. Department of Agriculture
New York Herald Tribune Forum
United Nations
Gen Giraud pulls back resignation after talks in Algiers
General Giraud withdrew his resignation as commander in chief of French forces for at least two weeks following a conference with the French Committee of National Liberation and Allied officers. The De Gaullist committee reportedly will not accept his terms, which call for a free hand in operations and no purge of the army without his consent.
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Algiers
Committee of National Liberation
II Giraud
de Gaullist
Giraud
London
CBS
Radio France
Vichy
Charles de Gaulle
No Clemency Recommended For Pendergast
The Justice Department refused to recommend executive clemency for T. J. Pendergast former Kansas City Democratic leader now on parole after a prison term for income tax violations A clemency petition from Kansas City business and professional leaders was filed and may be forwarded to President Roosevelt with a favorable recommendation.
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Washington
Justice Department
T. J. Pendergast
Kansas City
Roosevelt
Senate Conferees Aim to Slow Prewar Father Draft
Washington reports Senate and House conferees pressed toward final action on a bill to curb the induction of prewar fathers. The plan would strip the War Manpower Commission of control, repeal a non-deferable order, and require all nonfathers be called before fathers. President would likely approve as quotas shift to younger draftees.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ise
May
D-ay
House Military Committee
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Seiten
Grayibes
D-Tex
Tito's Forces Launch New Counter Blow
Tito's guerrilla fighters under Gen. Josip Broz claim a counteroffensive against German troops in Slovenia. A partisan communique says they broke up a Nazi drive that began Oct. 12, with six German divisions or more than 60,000 troops in action and many casualties reported. Trieste and Fiume were rendered unusable by heavy guerrilla demolitions.
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London
Josip Broz
Tito
Slovenia
Yugoslavia
Cairo
Trieste
Fiume
Bosnia
Eyewitness Recounts Horror Of Massacre Of Jews In Kiev
Izvestia via Tass reports Dmitrii Grlov describes Germans forcing Jews into Babyn Yar near Kiev. He recounts stripping, robbing, and shooting victims at the edge of a gulley while onlookers sang or laughed, with many carried from Lvovskaya Street.
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Kiev
Moscow
Izvestia
Dmitrii Grlov
Tass
Griev
Lvovskaya Street
Babyl Yar Gulley
Wickard urges tax on farm land sales to curb boom
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard asked the National Grange to back a stiff tax on profits from resale of farm land during the war emergency. He warned rising land prices could inflate farm values and hurt agriculture, citing indications of a new land boom.
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Wickard
Grand Rapids
Mich
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
National Grange Convention
Germans capture Leros after air bombardment and fight
German forces seized Leros in the Dodecanese after a heavy air assault and intense combat. The British-Italian garrison surrendered, with Berlin reporting about 3,000 British and 5,000 Italians as well as 130 guns captured.
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Leros
Dodecanese Islands
Aegean
Balkans
Turkey
Dardanelles
Berlin
Cos
Lakki Bay
Alinda
Dodecanese
Crete
Italy
Rhodes
Samos
Castelrosso
Cairo
Anthony Eden
Numan Menemencioglu
Russia
London
Middle East
Sir Henry Maitland Wilson
Allied Bombers Hit Nazi Airfields Across Europe
U S heavy and medium bombers blasted two Nazi air fields near Istres Le Tupe and Istres near Marseille. Maruders bombed Salon while other forces hit Eleusis Athens and harbored ships near Ancona and Grottammare. Ground fighting slowed by snow and mud with patrols and prisoner captures along Italian fronts.
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Edward Kennedy
Istres le Tupe
Marseille
Salon
Eleusis
Athens
Yugoslavia
Ancona
Italy
Grottammare
Garigliano
Moun‘tain
Rionero
Atessa
Adriatic
Eighth Army
U S Consuming Vital Nutrients Despite Rations
Food expert Frank L. Gunderson said in Chicago that despite wartime shortages, Americans in 1943 consumed more nutrients per capita than in the prewar years 1935 to 1939. He spoke in a prepared address for a nutrition wartime conference.
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Chicago
Toduy
Frank L. Gunderson
Washington
National Research Council
Food and Nutrition Board
Postgraduate Assembly On
Insitute of Medicine of
United States
Norway Power Station Ruined By Air Attack
London reports British based U S heavy bombers blasted the Knaben molybdenum mine and nearby chemical plants in Norway to blunt German war industry. RAF raids hit Rjukan electrolysis plants and other targets while two bombers were lost and six Nazi planes destroyed.
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London
Knaben
U. S
Norway
Germany
Rjukan
RAF 1 Ae Peas
Brest
St. Nazaire
France
Morrison enters Democratic primary for U S Senate
Cam Morrison, former governor and U S senator, announced from Washington he will run in the Democratic primary for the U S Senate seat held by Robert Reynolds. He is the fourth announced candidate joining Clyde Hoey Marvin Ritch and Arthur Simmons in this race. Morrison served 1930 to 1932 in the Senate by gubernatorial appointment and was defeated for renomination by Reynolds in 1932.
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Charlotte
Cameron Morrison
North Carolina
Robert Rice Reynolds
Morrison
U. S
Washington
Charlotte News
House
Reynolds
Clyde R. Hoey
Shelby
Marvin Ritch
Arthur Simmons
Burlington
Senate
United States Senate
Richmond County
Climax in Battle for Rabaul Nearing
Allied reports say the Rabaul campaign is reaching a climax as Japanese losses mount. A naval spokesman cited 102 enemy planes destroyed in six days and hinted Japan may evacuate Rabaul, with bombing and submarine attacks tightening the noose around New Britain. Military observers foresee an imminent Allied push toward Rabaul, possibly by Christmas.
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Rabaul
Bastion
Washington
South Pacific
Knox
New Britain Island
Solomons
Aleutians
Kiska
Raul
Bougainville
Last German Base East Of Dnieper Threatened
Red army troops closed in on Gomel amid a furious assault threatening to seize the last German stronghold east of the Dnieper. Russian forces pushed near Sozhiev and beyond the Dnieper south of Gomel, widening their wedge toward Rechitsa, while heaviest attacks pressed along the Smolensk-Orsha corridor and toward Korosten.
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Moscow
Red Army
Gomel
Dnieper
Sozhiev
Rechitsa
Ukraine
Zhitomir
Fastov
Korosten
Leningrad-Odessa
Warsaw
Berlin
Smolensk-Orsha
Kerch
Crimea
Dpetrovsk
Krivoi
Zaporozhe
Reuters
Tere
Turchenka
Tured
Draft Rapped In Cherryville
Hundreds of circulars protesting the induction of pre Pearl Harbor fathers circulated in Cherryville as men with no dependents stayed home. The notices critiqued deferment policies and urged support for specific men, while a Raleigh investigation was ordered to study the listed records and a statement was planned.
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Cherryville
Selective Service
Tojo
Hitler
State Selective Service
Raleigh
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Stalin
Gen. Giraud
DeGaullist
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Associated Press
Cam Morrison
U.S. Senate
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