Soviet Push Drives German Lines Across 600 Mile Front
Soviet dispatches report a summer offensive spanning about 600 miles from the Sea of Azov to beyond Bryansk. The Red Army advances toward Dnieperopetrovsk while Germans retreat along the front abandoning towns and war material amid autumn rains and mud. Lozovaya near Pavlograd marks the last Ukrainian fortress before the Dnieper region.
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London
Sea of Azov
Bryansk
Dnieper
Dnieperopetrovsk
Red Star
Lozovaya
Ukraine
Red
Red Army
Paviograd
Kharkov
Allied Fifth Army aided by air and sea in Salerno fight
Allied forces repelled German counterattacks around Salerno bridgehead while yielding some ground at night to consolidate lines. Heavy air bombardment from the Mediterranean fleet and British Eighth Army advances along the coast supported the Fifth Army as capital ships and bombers struck German positions.
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Clark
Noland
Norgaad
North Africa
Salerno
Italy
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Agropoli
Eighth Army
Taran
Belvedere
Agli
U. S
Fifth
Thema
Excevilla
Armeniana
Sele River
Trio Ignored Efforts For Dismissals
Three FCC officials and Virgin Islands secretary Lovett, named for dismissal over suspected un American views, plan to remain on the payroll after November 15 despite congressional action and Roosevelt criticism. They may seek legal relief if the comptroller rules against them.
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Goodwon B. Watson
Roosevelt
Watson
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
William FE. Dodd, Jr
Robert Morss Lovett
Islands
Comptroller General
Court of Claims
Rep. Dies
D-Tex
House Committee On un-American Activities
Congress
Congressional
Specter of Famine Looms Over Rome and Northern Italy
Reports from the Italian frontier say famine looms as Nazi authorities in Rome demand weapon surrender and warn of shooting for defiance. Parachute troops mass in St Peters Square. Pope Pius XII’s fate remains unknown. Rome appeals to farmers to feed civilians. schools closed indefinitely as shortages worsen.
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Bern
Switzrland
Rome
Italy
Badoglio
Reich
Stein
Chiasso
St. Peter's Square
Pius XII
Vatican City
Como
Allied push near Lae cuts off Japanese at Salamaua area
Allied command says Japanese at Lae, New Guinea face annihilation as they retreat and are cornered by pincer forces from two sides. Thunderous artillery and air bombardment accompany a sea landing above Lae as Americans and Australians advance from Markham valley toward Heath's plantation, 8 miles from town.
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Southwest Pacific
Lae
New Guinea
Malahang
New Yanga
Busu
Markham Valley
Heath's
Fighteen
Salamaua
MacArthur
Congress Headed To Postwar Foreign Policy Scrap
Washington report shows Congress eyeing a heated debate over postwar foreign policy. Democrats push to limit amendments while some Republicans seek reservations. Rep Fulbright advocates American membership in an international peace framework amid GOP concerns.
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Congress
Washington
Mackinac Island
House
Rep
Fulbright
D-Ark
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Bloom
D-Ny
Cole
R-Ny
The Salerno Landing and Allied Strategy Report
The article argues that difficulties at Salerno do not signal a major defeat for the Allies. It notes German artillery on hills, heavy gunfire as troops landed, and German forces in the sector. It stresses that Nazis have no plan to prevent occupation of Italy and frames the situation as a temporary setback in a broader campaign.
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Italy
Allied
Sicily
G. Castellano
Dwight D. Eisenhower
W. B. Smith
U. S. Army
U. S. Signal Corps Radiotelephoto
Salerno
Hermann Goering
Salerno-Agropoli
Capri Island
Fifth Army
Mussolini Creates Republican Fascist Party in Italy
The German controlled government radio broadcast an eight point proclamation under Mussolini’s name declaring the creation of a republican fascist party in Italy with the former premier in supreme direction.
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London
Radio” Today
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Aim Attack Presumably Via Balkans
London dispatches report unconfirmed moves of the British Ninth Army from Middle East bases toward the Balkans amid Yugoslav Partisan advances and fighting in the Dodecanese. Balkan unrest, Italian surrender effects, and German positions in Greece and Dalmatia frame a tense strategic picture.
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London
Stockholm
Ankara
Ninth Army
Balkans
Middle East
Greece
Dodecanese
Algiers
Associated Press
Europe
Syria
Transjordania
Rhodes
Crete
Mediterranean
Yugoslavia
Adriatic Sea
Italy
Slovenia
Serbia
Bosnia
Romania
Antonescu
Bulgaria
Germany
Dodecanese Islands
Cairo
Balkan
Army rejects delay of father draft plan
Army leaders sharply rejected congressional moves to postpone or cancel the induction of pre Pearl Harbor fathers. Lt. Gen. Joseph T. MacNarney warned that reducing the draft pool would force strategic changes. He said an army of 7,700,000 by year end is the minimum force needed. Undersecretary Patterson testified next.
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Washington
Army High Command
VSR Vial Mieluvee
Joseph T. MacNarney
Senate
House
Patterson
McNarney
China Maps Postwar Territory Policy in Far East
Foreign Minister T. V. Soong outlined China’s postwar goals. He urged the eradication of Japanese influence in Korea and Formosa, aiming for Korea’s independence and Formosa integrated into the Republic of China. Soong expected a strong central government, universal suffrage, a national assembly within a year after the war, and a general election under a new constitution.
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China
Far East
Korea
Washington
T. V. Soong
Formosa
Japan
Korean Peninsula
Nippon
Philippines
Soong
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Chungking
Kuomintang
National Congress
Accused Spy Purvis Arrested in New Jersey
Federal officials report the Newark arrest of John Da Silva Purvis 43 on charges of acting as a German spy. Hoover said Purvis transmitted information to Europe and received cash payments on two occasions. Purvis, a Portuguese citizen, allegedly began espionage in 1942 after recruitment by a neutral vessel crew member.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Newark
N. J
John da Silva Purvis
Germany
Hoover
Purvis
Europe
United States
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Taranto
Gioia
Encoun
Naples
Gulf of
Capri
Gulf of Salerno
6Th Army
Wewak
Army
Republic of China
Thailand
Indo- China
Hongkong
Mongolia
Manchuria
Seong
New Jersey
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