World This Week: Diplomatic Shocks and Wartime Moves
A wide summary shows Grew warning Tokyo about American views on China angering Japanese leaders while Germany annexes part of Poland and plans a Polish state. In India Britain debates dominion status after protests led by Gandhi, and Romanian oil supply tightens as Axis and Allies clash. Finland negotiates wartime losses as Stalin sends economists to Berlin.
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Joseph C. Grew
U. S
Japan
Tokyo
China
Nippon
Foreign Office
Germany
Poland
Wilno
Lithuania
Russia
Hitler
Reichstag
Lubin
Czestochowa
Krakow
Europe
Baltic
Rome
Italy
Moscow
Russian
Balkans
India
Britain
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
Lord Linlithgow
Romania
Carol
Texas
Rumania
Reich
Danube
House
Senate
Defense Is Best Offense, Hart Urges Bold Strategy
British analysts debate Liddell Hart’s claim defense outweighs attack as World War I fronts drift into a stalemate. News from the western front, naval losses, air raids, and Ribbentrop’s Berlin pressure frame a tense belt of attrition. London reports submarines, air attacks, and cautious war aims as winter looms.
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Liddell Hart
Hart
Germany
Admiralty
London
North Sea
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Britain
France
Berlin
Ribbentrop
Men of War blow Rhine bridge as warnings go unanswered
French engineers dynamited a Rhine bridge after signaling German sentinels. A Swiss sergeant in charge of carrier pigeons took ten home on leave and sent them back with a wedding announcement. A British officer found his name on a rave in France where his leg was buried after a 1918 shell explosion.
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Rhine
France
German Pocket Battleships Challenge Blockade
Following the capture of the U S freighter City of Flint reports say the Deutschland or Emden eluded Allied patrols to raid North Atlantic commerce. The 10,000 ton Deutschland, shown near the camera, trains with a sister ship in the English Channel last spring.
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Eports
U. S
Emden
English Channel
Browder Indicted on Draft Evasion Charges on Train Ride
Earl Russell Browder 48 long associated with the Communist Party faces a federal indictment in New York with maximum penalties of five years and $2 000. Bail arranged by a Social Register woman. Meanwhile Mennonites in Corn Kansas a town of 300 gather 3000 plain dress members from 75 000 U S and Canadian Mennonites to decide wartime pacifist cooperation with Quakers and Dunkards for front line service.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Earl Russell Browder
U. S
Kansas
AFL
Communist Party of the
Dies Committee
Europe
Browder
New York
Social Register
New World
U.S
Quakers
Dunkards
Death Ray and Bombing Plane Advances Reported
Dr Ernest Lawrence described a 2000 ton cyclotron capable of producing a death ray with potential but not military value due to slow lethality and unwieldy size. The U S air corps unveiled a device enabling bombardiers to pilot and adjust sights simultaneously cutting exposure time. Stanford student Fred Hinds kept notes on his myelogenous leukemia and died. his records may aid cure research.
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Ernest Lawrence
University of California
National Academy of Sciences
Providence
R. I
Lawrence
U. S. Air Corps
Stanford University
Fred Hinds
Roosevelts and notables named in brief history blur
In Short Commissioned Kermit Roose vel t, TR s son, as a British army officer. Suffocated five infants in Perth Amboy New Jersey hospital nursery by steam from a radiator. Named Joe DiMaggio as most valuable American League baseballer. Set a 535 hour endurance record for light land planes by two young Indianans. Ousted Louisiana Attorney General David Ellison by militia on Gov Earl Long s orders. Escaped Winnie Ruth Judd trunk slayer from Arizona state hospital. Died Ali Bey Al Abed Zane Grey Harold Flammer Fred S Purnell Frank H Tracy.
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Kermit Roosevelt
Perth Amboy
N. J
Joe DiMaggio
New York Yankees
Louisiana
David Ellison
Earl K. Long
Winnie Ruth Judd
Arizona State Hospital
Ali Bey al Abed
Syria
Zane Grey
Harold Flammer
Music Publishers’ Association
Fred S. Purnell
Indiana
Frank H. Tracy
Broadway Prosperity Ride With War and Fairs Lift
New York theater rides a boom as 18 plays and musicals show strong sales with 10 drawing standees. Helen Hayes's Ladies And Gentlemen opens to poor notices but sells tickets for New Year’s Eve amid a bustling season and high fair attendance expectations.
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New York
Helen Hayes
San Francisco
Golden Gate Exposition
City of Flint Seized as Prize of War in Murmansk
The City of Flint a U S lines freighter with 18 Nazi sailors onboard is at Murmansk after being halted by a German prize crew. The ship carried 5000 tons of machinery and goods from New York to Glasgow and Liverpool and rescued 39 survivors of a sunken British freighter in the Atlantic.
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U. S
City of Flint
Russia
Arctic
Murmansk
U.S
New York
Glasgow
Liverpool
Atlantic
Tromsoe
Norway
Britain
Washington
Hull
City of
Flint
Roosevelt
Harvard president Dr James Conant on mass education
Dr James Conant, Harvard president, argues against the false Jacksonian democracy idea that every man is as capable as his neighbor. Treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr remarks on California pension plans, joking about eggs.
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James 8. Conant
Harvard
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Treasury
California
Weekend Events and Exposition Closure Noted
Upcoming Sunday October 29 marks the start of Girl Scout Week and the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco closes. On Monday October 30 the Swiss elect a national council and the Monopoly committee begins steel industry hearings in Washington.
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National Council
Monopoly
Washington
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