Jackson Opens Nazi War Crimes Trial With Admission of 1940 Plots
Justice Robert H. Jackson states that Nazi records show plans to attack the United States as far back as 1940 and that Japan planned to kill Soviet Marshal Stalin in 1940 via Russian traitors. Defendants plead innocent. Goering and Hess deny guilt while the court rules on jurisdiction.
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Nuernberg
Robert H. Jackson
U. S
America
International War Crimes Tribunal
United States
Stalin
Jackson
International Tribunal
Rudolf Hess
Hitler
Baldur Ton Schirach
Geoffrey Lawrence
Orward
Hermann Goering
Geoffre Lawrence
Goering
Hess
Falkenstein
Fuehrer
Atlantic Islands
Wilhelm Keitel
Japan
Germany
Lea to the Kaiser becomes a distant echo of postwar justice
The piece notes Luke Lea’s attempt to kidnap the Kaiser after World War One and compares it to modern war crimes trials. It highlights the Nürnberg trials and convictions of Josef Kramer and others at Lueneburg, and discusses Japan’s wartime leaders facing accountability as part of a broader world movement toward justice.
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Dewit MacKenzie
Tennessee
Luke Lea
Colonel Lea
Holland
Lea
Nuernberg
Hitler
Josef Kramer
Belsen
Lueneburg
Oswiecim
Japan
You
Protests Over Training Regimentation Stir Debate
Senator Hoey reads letters in the congressional record from ex Army officers who challenge compulsory military training. They argue such training harms American ingenuity and moral leadership, comparing it to past militarism in Germany and Japan, urging caution about the program's impact on national spirit.
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Washington
Sen
Hoey
D-Nc
Germany
Japan
Janlee
Congressional
Eisenhower Says Strong America Not Feared by Other Nations
General Dwight D. Eisenhower addressing the American Legion in Chicago argues that no country fears a strong United States. He calls for bearing burdens to preserve peace, urges universal military training, and favors unified control of the armed forces.
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Chicago
America
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American Legion
Tve Star
Dutch Order Withdraws Native Troops From Batavia
All native troops under Dutch control were ordered to withdraw from Batavia amid “serious disorders” in the capital. Amboinese units guarding Dutch property rode trucks with tommy guns, provoking British protests as Indonesian nationalists accuse them of indiscriminate shootings and arson. Elsewhere Soerabaja saw a lull while British artillery shelled Indonesian positions south Segaity last night.
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Batavia
Netherlands East Indies
Java
Soerabaja
Associated Press
Vern Haugland
Segaity
Robert Benchley Dies at 56 in New York
Robert C. Benchley, 56, renowned author editor actor and humorist died early today from a cerebral hemorrhage at Harkness Pavilion Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York He had spentRecent months in Hollywood returning a month ago from the coast where he acted in several motion pictures He had been doing radio shows and fell ill at his Scarsdale New York home about a week earlier.
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New York
Robert C. Benchley
Harkness
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Hollywood
Scarsdale
N. Y
Richardson Claims He Was Relieved For Hurting Roosevelt
Senate testimony recounts Admiral Harold R. Richardson saying Secretary Knox told him in 1941 he was relieved as commander of the Pacific Fleet after disagreeing with President Roosevelt. Richardson said Knox noted the President’s feelings, and he speculated on how his dismissal might have affected Roosevelt.
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Richardson
Roosevelt
Washington
J. ©. Richardson
Knox
Senate House Committee
Pearl Harbor
Husband E. Kimmel
Ferguson
R.-Mich
Mr. Roosevelt
Byrnes Speech Put In Record By Maybank
Senator Maybank of South Carolina reported Secretary of State James F. Byrnes speech from Charleston to the Senate Confessional Record. He called the address able and enlightening with world wide significance. It stressed world cooperation and U S leadership in world peace and atomic energy.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Maybank
D-Sc
Senate
Byrnes
Charleston
United States
Four Southern Textile Plants Admonished By Federal Agency
Four southern textile companies faced a public admonition from the War Labor Board, three in the Carolinas, that they were under moral obligation to follow wartime WLB decisions. The board, in a unanimous finding, said the firms violated wartime orders and urged full compliance, even as the nation is at peace. The actions involve Gaffney Manufacturing of Gaffney South Carolina, Entwistle Manufacturing of Rockingham North Carolina, Athens Manufacturing of Athens Georgia, and Industrial Cotton Mills of Rock Hill South Carolina, tied to a CIO union dispute over dues checkoff and union membership maintenance. WLB chairman Lloyd K. Garrison stressed adherence despite prewar decisions.
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Washington
Carolinas
War Labor Board
WLB
Textile Workers Union of America
CIO
Gaffney Manufacturing Company
Gaffney, 8. C
Entwistle Manufacturing Company
Rockingham, N. C
Athens Manufacturing Company
Athens, Ga
Industrial Cotton Mills Company, Inc
Rock Hill
Lloyd K. Garrison
Chinese Reds Offer Scant Resistance
Nationalist troops breaking into Manchuria via the Great Wall were reported by Ho Ping Pao to be nearing Hingcheng on the Peiping Mukden railroad about sixty miles northeast of Shanhaikwan. The advance met little resistance as forces moved 25 miles beyond yesterday, with Hulutao, a communist port, predicted 17 miles northeast of Hingcheng.
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Chungking
Manchuria
Great Wall
Ho Ping Pao
Hingcheng
Peiping-Mukden
Shanhaikwan
Hulutao
Legion Convenes Final Day Sets Foreign Policy Stance
The American Legion reaffirmed support for the United Nations and urged a definite U S foreign policy at its 27th annual convention in Chicago. The body backed training of diplomats and staff, higher justice standards for war crimes trials, and discussed unification of armed forces and universal military training. John Stelle appeared favored for national commander as a slate of five vice commanders eyed clear sailing.
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Chicago
American Legion
United Nations Organization
Legionnaires
United States
Erans
John Stelle
Illinois
Fred la Boon
Chickasha
Okla
Bataan
Dudley Swim
Twin Falls
Ida
Legion Department (State
Jeremiah J
Ellen Glasgow Dies In Richmond at 71
Ellen Glasgow, nationally known author and Pulitzer Prize winner in 1942 for In This Our Life, died in Richmond at age 71. She had lived there most of her life and first gained fame in the early 1900s with The Voice of the People.
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Richmond
Ellen Glasgow
Miss Glasgow
Raleigh to House State OPA Operations in 1944
Effective January 15 all administrative activities of the office of price administration in North Carolina will be centralized in Raleigh under Theodore S. Johnson, current head of the Raleigh setup. L. W. Driscoll of Charlotte is mentioned in the notice.
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Raleigh
Office of Price Administration
North Carolina
Theodore S. Johnson
L. W. Driscoll
Charlotte
Libby Holman’s Second Husband Found Dead in New York
Ralph Holmes 30 year old actor and second husband of Libby Holman was found dead in his east side apartment from apparently natural causes. He was son of Broadway actor Taylor Holmes and brother of Phillips Holmes who died in a 1942 plane crash. Holmes served in the Canadian air force and U S army air force, and was recently discharged as a captain. He had wed Libby Holman in May 1939, widow of Smith Reynolds of Winston-Salem NC. Police said he may have died several days earlier. Taylor Holmes could not reach Libby Holman at her Stamford Connecticut home.
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New York
Ralph Holmes
Libby Holman
East Side
Holmes
Taylor Holmes
Phillips Holmes
Canadian Air Force
Pearl Harbor
Ralph
U. S. Army Air Force
De Gaulle Forms Coalition Cabinet With Communists Five Ports
Paris Nov 21 Gen De Gaulle's chief of cabinet announced a coalition government granting the communists five portfolios including a new armaments ministry. The arrangement ends a crisis after communists pressed for major posts.
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Paris
de Gaulle
Gaston Palewski
Constituent Assembly
Truman Protest From Commissioner Over Forgotten Branch Claim
U S commissioner Nat C White criticized President Truman in a letter calling the commissioners a forgotten branch of government. He alleged a fee system from 49 years ago, complained of supplies paid personally, and noted quarterly pay unlike other employers. He said the government owes him six months and nineteen days of service.
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White
AG von Ke
Ciriets
U. S
Nationwide GM walkout boosts idle workers past half‑million
The CIO United Auto Workers led about 100 GM plants in 20 states into a strike, pushing total idle workers beyond 500,000. About 200,000 GM production workers are affected. The walkout follows two months of failed wage negotiations with a 30 percent demand and unity action with AFL locals. Simultaneous strikes hit AFL transit workers in Washington and Montgomery Ward stores in six cities, with scattered effects on telecommunication and other sectors.
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Associated Press
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Flint, Mich
Buick Motors
Flint
Oldsmobile
Olds
Lansing
American Federation of Labor
Met Corporation
A.F.L
AFL
Ashington
D. C
Montgomery Ward and Company
Denver
Chicago
St. Paul
Kansas City
Detroit
Albany
N. Y
Illinois
Steady Prices Reported In Weed Market In Raleigh
In Raleigh on November 21 prices across old and middle belt flue cured tobaccos remained generally steady with some gains. Best nondescript sold up to 40 dollars per hundred pounds, sales volumes remained heavy with Monday at 5 599 332 pounds and a 47 22 average, season totals reached 402 072 349 pounds at 43 81 per cwt.
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Raleigh
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