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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1940
Page
2
Roger Shaw reports on the German channel push from Cam brai to Calais, air dominance over the Channel, and the British crackdown on alleged fifth columnists including Mosley and Ramsay. He surveys public fear, U S military spending debates, and wartime diplomacy as Britain and the United States brace for a looming conflict.
History instructor Paul E. Cram of Harvard urged students to push for entering the war as a fight unfolds. A student protest denounced U S intervention while French Premier Reynaud criticized his army. Allied air output plunged, German claims conflicted with Allied reports of losses, civilians died in Rotterdam, and air battles with Hurricanes and Messerschmitts continued amid shifting casualty figures.
A columnist laments jail sentence logic as impractical and disturbing guiding judges to tailor terms to employability. He contrasts punishment aims with real life, cites a hypothetical exchange on sentence timing, and recalls a memory verse by Sue Selius, plus a string of scattered notes on politics and culture.
Rev. Dr. William Lindsay Young of Park College was chosen moderator at the 152nd Presbyterian general assembly in Rochester New York. Aaron Copland elected president of the American Composers Alliance in New York. Mayor LaGuardia warned about international conflict and joined the Defense Committee. A man named Alfonso Jansen faced an odd sentence in New York for slapping Susie Hall, who urged sending him to Africa for a thousand years. Alfred Duff Cooper commented on allied morale and Talleyrand influence. Sir Samuel Hoare named for a propaganda mission to Spain to sway opinion against Mussolini.
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