Weekly News Analysis by Roger Shaw on war aims and Americas stance
The column surveys wartime shifts to aerial and submarine warfare, German and Allied losses, and shifting alliances. It notes prisoner releases, fears of German Romanian or Spanish entry, and Pan American tensions at Havana over the Act of Havana, plus debates on universal military service and conscription in peace. It ends with Breton and Flemish nationalism and plans for buffer states in a disrupted Europe.
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Rhineland
Vatican
General Goering
Mr. Lloyd George
Vandenberg
Wheeler
Britain
Channel
France
Brittany
Angloland
England
Ireland
Daladier
Flanders
Belgian Flanders
Zeeland
Flushing
Ostend
Antwerp
Dunkirk
Calais
Boulogne
Normandy
Fuss and Fame in the Willkie Campaign described
The piece analyzes Wendell Willkie’s bid to win Democratic converts in the South and among conservative Northern Democrats. It notes party realignments, mentions figures like Henry Wallace and Jim Farley, and discusses potential resignations and campaign tactics amid shifting liberal and conservative blocs.
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Wendell Willkie
Willkie Standard
New York
Wilx
South
TVA
Willkie
George Washington
Jefferson
Lafayette
Farmer George
Roosevelt Menage
Stimson
Knox
Ickes
Wallace
Fo Tance
Hop
Perkins
Morgenthau
Hugh Johnson
NRA
Hull
Farley
Henry Wallace
Roosevelt
Navy
Jim Cox
Jim Farley
Big Jim
Stimson Receives Full Authority As War Secretary
Washington reports Henry L. Stimson, veteran secretary of war, gains full authority to reorganize the war department including removal of Democratic appointees. Roosevelt pressed him to accept after a Yale address, with Stimson seeking trusted aides and a plan to avoid overwork. Crowell volunteers to survey department conditions even before confirmation, finding progress in weapons output but internal feuds and mismanagement requiring overhaul.
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Washington, D. C
Yale University
Roosevelt
Stimson
Henry
New York
Harvard
Senate
Washington
Benedict Crowell
Central National Bank of Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Navy
Crowell
War Department
NAMES in the news and political chatter in 1948 era
Mrs Daisy Borden Harriman the American ambassador to Norway sails home aboard the American Legion transport with Yankee ministers to Estonia Latvia and Lithuania recently absorbed by Soviet Russia Vice President Garner returns to Texas declaring he is not talking politics Adrien Marquet French interior minister warns America of decadence three manifestations women in jobs makeup and childbearing asked if these replace life liberty and happiness A listener ponders the era's mood
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Daisy Borden Harriman
Norway
U. S. Army
American Legion
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Soviet Russia
Garner
Texas
Uvalde
Adrien Marquet
America
Around the House Candy Tips and Onion Prep Tricks
Practical house advice covers candy making with wooden spoons, loosening jar lids with emery cloth, and using onions to deodorize rooms. A recipe for onion rings details peeling six large onions, using the larger rings, soaking in milk, dredging in seasoned flour, and frying. Cooks are advised to cool ovens with a basin of cold water and to discard onions after scent absorption. A note mentions syrup sweetness equals two parts sugar.
Surprising Eloquence in Conversational and Written Works
A compact aphorism piece notes that eloquence appears in conversation and writing, rarely when sought, often where least expected. It argues that both men and women are moved more by the senses than by reason, with the heart reached through pleasing the eyes and ears.
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la’ Bruyere
Chesterfield
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