Nazi Drive Into Jugoslavia and Greece Escalates
The article reports Nazi forces breaking into Jugoslavia and eastern Greece as Hitler orders expansion against Britain. It notes the non aggression pact with Russia and Yugoslavia's brave stance despite food shortages and large armies, with U.S. potential aid under leasing arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Jugoslavia
Greece
Balkans
Schedue
Aegean Sea
Turkey
Russia
Berlin
Europe
United States
Roosevelt
White House
France
Danube
Vardar
British: Evacuate Benghazi Amidst Shifting War News
Reports show the British admitting a withdrawal from Benghazi was planned as Gen Wavell reshapes strategies against Nazi Italian forces. Addis Ababa fell without a fight, Iraq saw a military coup, and naval actions included Italian vessel seizures and Britain claiming ships sunk in the Mediterranean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jugoslavia
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Bengasi
Libya
Archibald Wavell
Africa
War Office
Iraq
Bagdad
Rashid Ali Gailani
Britain
London
Red Sea
Suez Canal
Italy
Alberto Lais
Legation
State Department
Lais
Washington
Hull
Luis
United States
Tr Duce
Mediterranean
Congress
Atlantic
Tobey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Papers of Private Purkey Letter Home From Camp
A soldier's letter to his mother describes cramped tents, fatigue, and mischief in a draft camp. He jokes about drill, bunkmates, and morale while recalling army life in a cold winter and a Ford utility truck arrival. Mentions fellow actors and industry quips as light relief.
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Sarge
Pershing
Alexander Woollicott
Furrow
France
Oscar
William Saroyan
Artie Shaw
Ruby Foo's
Vick | Knight
NBC
Vick
AAA
Agriculture Department
Claude Wickard
Europe
Wickard
Triple-A
Rudolph M. Evans
Evans
Milo Perkins
Surplus Marketing Administration
Commodity Credit Corporation
New York Novelette and Gossip on Broadway Lights
A bustling collage of Hollywood chatter and New York nightlife. Judy Garland, Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, and Jo Ann Sayers thread through stages and clubs as reporters, publicists, and talent scouts chase fame in a chilly night of talk and wit. The piece notes Gestapo detentions, press gallery politics, and a Greek benefit study, ending with Broadway musings on a chorus girl’s cleverness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Quentin Reynolds
Palace of Ver Gailles
Broadway
Judy Garland
Noel Coward
London
Gertrude Lawrence
Hollywood
Northwest
Marc Connelly
S. Lyons
Max Gordon
Gordon
Rale
Eileen
Jo Annn Sayers
Bitter Italian resentment foretells major upheaval in Italy
U S observers report strong anti Mussolini sentiment in Italy with army discontent and Badoglio as a visible critic. Gestapo control in Rome limits access to the American embassy while Italy faces food shortages and looming regime instability. Americans enjoy popularity amid political tension.ား
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Duce
U. S
Italy
Mussolini
Il Dace
Badoglio
Albania
North
Africa
Ethiopia
Rome
Berlin
Gestapo
Phillips
Roosevelt
State Department
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Edward C. Wayne
Western Newspaper Union
C. Fotitch
King Peter
TRAQ
United States Steel Corporation
C.I.C
Harlan
Philip Murray
U. S. Steel
C.I.Q
Ford
Ford Counsel
Henry Ford
Edsel Ford
Bennett
Capizzi
All Labor Board
C.T.O
Senate
George
Pepper
Gillette
Town
Abdul Tok
Fetsal II
Wh “Ai Phillips
Condishon
No Man’s Land
Duckshun
Tulia
Pittsburgh
Citizen
Merrill Chilcote
Walter Brennan
Mario Naldi
H. Johnson
Waldorf's Empire
Wotta
Montparnasse
United Press
Richard Hotteler
John Whitaker
Chicago
Whitaker
Associations of
Ass’n
House
Goebbels
Gayda
Germ
Manfred Zapp
Bhut
Dep't
Music Hall
I. Hoffman
Irv Cobb
la Guardia
Golf Mag
Jersey City
N. J
Grace Billotti
YYCA
Frank Hague
Hague
Miss Billottt
Edward Stettinius
U.S. Steel Corporation
SWOC
Steel Workers Union
Stettinius
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