26 Mar 1943
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1943
Page
1
Weekly news analysis notes new ration orders aimed at ensuring a healthy diet for civilians. It also recalls the Kharkov offensive of the Nazi regime and connects it to a broader history of prewar drives that influenced collapse in World War I. Congress debates a postwar security plan as part of ongoing policy considerations.
The Truman committee found three main causes for wartime program failures: weak initial government planting, conflicting authority across programs, and government hesitancy to push unpopular policies. It urged centralized authority in a few officials, warning the coming year would be the toughest. Americans tightened belts as March 29 rationing began, with meat limited to about two pounds weekly per person and less change in poultry and fish. Coffee would be more available, and bean values lowered. total rationed foods drop 12 to 15 percent, while per capita civilian supplies in 1943 should align with 1935-39 levels.
North Africa reports Rommel and Von Arnim pinned at the Mareth line after a punishing defeat. Allied pressure grows from General Montgomery's 8th Army and Eisenhower's reinforced American forces as hopes for Axis retreat or collapse rise.
Military historians compare the current German offensive near Kharkov with the 1916 Ludendorff-Hindenburg drive as both sides endure costly defeats before a major breakthrough. Nazis deploy superior forces but face uncertain gains while Russian advances toward Smolensk press on from Vyazma and Rzhev losses.
Department of Agriculture notes rapid repayment by more than 100,000 farmer borrowers from 12 Federal Land Banks in 1942. Total repayments reached 303 million dollars, with 21.2 million deposited for future installments on land bank and commissioner loans. Demand for new farm mortgages fell about 22 percent in late 1942 compared with 1941.
The National Resources Planning Board outlines a postwar social security scheme to turn freedom from want into reality. It calls for guaranteed jobs for veterans, government underwriting of full employment, joint private government partnerships, a national unemployment fund, higher old age benefits, and expanded public works programs.
In Canberra Lord Gowrie the governor general received M Vlasov the new Soviet minister and stated both nations seek to preserve their ways of life. The exchange followed closer diplomatic ties between Australia and Russia.
The House Ways and Means committee advances a Ruml style tax plan with a 20 percent withholding levy on pay envelopes starting July 1. The levy applies to earnings after deductions for dependents and is presented as a method to collect actual taxes rather than a new tax.
Washington observers say renewed lend lease shows the US will ship more aid to allies and neutrals to secure postwar stability and gain bases. A Stettinius report lists total wartime aid at 95.632 billion in two years, with Russia receiving 29 percent of shipments, half of tanks, and 40 percent of tactical planes.
The newly activated 14th U S air force in China under Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault replaces the China Air Task Force. The move broadens American air power in the China theater and supports the war against Japan. Civil Air Patrol pilots, the Flying Minute Men, armed and trained at last, report submarine patrols and growing risks as military dismissals threaten civilian fleets.
A Warsaw ghetto survivor recalls life under Nazi rule from 1939 to 1942. The account covers the overrun city blocks, restricted freedoms, the German occupation structure, the Jewish council led by Czerniakow, and brutal deportations including mass killings and gassing methods used by extermination squads.
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