French Spanish Link Near Breaking Point
Paris report says the French Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee urged breaking relations with Spain. Officials weigh severing ties to gain an overland repatriation route for 30,000 French in North Africa and pursue Laval extradition, amid Spain’s border closures after the Chambery incident. Pierre Laval remains in Spain.
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Paris
French Assembly
Foreign Affairs Committee
de Gaulle
Reuter
North
Africa
Pamphlets Urge Laval Surrender Seized in Spain
In Barcelona police seized a large batch of pamphlets calling for the surrender of traitor Pierre Laval and other war criminals to the Allies. Several distributors were arrested. The Spanish press had not noted Laval's internment at Montjuic castle nor Leon De Grelle’s detention at San Sebastian military hospital.
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Barcelona
Pierre Laval
Spain
Laval
Mont Juin
Leon de Grelle
San Sebastian
Parri Thanks Allies For Faith In Italy
In his first broadcast as premier Ferruccio Parri thanked the Allies for aid and trust. He said Italy must repay the leaders with hard work, rebuilding laws, economy, currency confidence, housing and employment while restoring its place among great nations.
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Rome
Ferruccio Parri
Italy
Parri
New Dutch Cabinet Sets Meeting Today
Amsterdam June 24 a new Dutch government of 14 cabinet members including 11 former underground leaders was formed by Prof Willem Schermerhorn who will be prime minister. The cabinet will be sworn in today and hold its first meeting tomorrow. Retained from the old cabinet are Foreign Minister van Kleffens Home Affairs Beel and Naval Minister De Booy.
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Amsterdam
Willem Schermerhorn
Pieter S. Gerbrandy
London
Schermerhorn
Delft University
Netherlands People’s Party
E. N. van Kleffens
San Francisco
Home Affairs
L. J. M. Beel
James M. de Booy
WAC Colonel To Go to Naples for Overseas Training Conference
Lt Col Dora A Coleman, Staff Director of the Wacs in the theater, departs Italy to attend a Washington conference on overseas training and policy for WAC administration. Maj Helen Hansen of Minneapolis will replace her in Naples.
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Naples
Dorothea A. Coleman
Wacs
Italy
WAC
Washington
Coleman
Helen Hansen
Minneapolis
Greek Editor Faces Disloyalty Charges In Athens
Athens June 24 AP the government will indict Nicolas Zachariades leader of the Greek Communist party and editor of Rizospastis for publishing an anonymous letter alleged to have been written by a Greek senior officer claiming the Military League plans invasion of Albania restoration of the king and execution of all Communists.
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Athens
Nicolas Zachariades
Communist Party
Rizospastis
Military League
Albania
Enemy Losing Use of Yangtze River
Flying Tigers of the 14th USAAF intensified raids through south and central China cutting Japanese commerce along the Yangtze, China’s inland artery. Reports say hundreds of Japanese vessels are wrecked while fighting around Liuchow in Kwantsi province continues with Chinese forces holding hard-won positions amid fierce attacks.
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Chungking
Flying Tigers
USAAF
China
Yangtze River
Reuter’s
Shanghai
Yangtze
Nanking
Liuchow
Kwantsi Province
Talks Near End On Teschen Boundary Dispute
Moscow reports three nation talks among Czechs Poles and Russians on Teschen district boundaries in Czechoslovakia nearing conclusion. Reiter's predicts Prague will concede about one third of the Munich loss while addressing German salients on the north and an Austrian border claim.
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Moscow
Teschen
Czechoslovakia
Reiter’s
Munich
Emperor Hirohito Backs War Clinching Crisis in Japan
Washington reports Emperor Hirohito and War Minister Anami urging national resolve after Okinawa defeat and fire bombing. Broadcasts cite unprecedented crisis, possible move toward personal rule, and fears of tighter food blockade. Emperor aids food production plans and opens palace for rice growing.
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Washington
Emperor Hirohito
Japan
Korechika Anami
Okinawa
Hirohito
Anami
Tokyo
Imperial
Nazi Soldier Reveals Ribbentrop’s Location in Hamburg
In Hamburg on June 24 AP reports a German soldier seeking to join his wife and child exposed Joachim von Ribbentrop to British police. The disclosure followed the wine merchant wife who knew Ribbentrop for 25 years and refused sanctuary. The minister was sheltered by a blond censor, who did not recognize him. He spoke through a closed door as warnings followed. The soldier had intercepted a message from Ribbentrop requesting help and gave the address to police. The wine merchant couple, though fond of him personally, condemned his Nazi role and celebrated his fate.
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Hamburg
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ribbentrop
Wehrmacht
Himmler
Fascist propagandist Villari arrested in Rome
Luigi Villari, a Fascist propagandist who taught in the United States and elsewhere, was arrested in Rome. He arrived from northern Italy and will be tried for spying abroad before the war by the OVRA, the Fascist secret police, according to the High Commissariat for the Punishment of Fascist Crimes.
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Rome
Luigi Villari
United States
Italy
Villari
OVRA
High Commissariat
Japs In Hospital Murdered By Retreating Comrades
Manila reports 120 Japanese soldiers killed by fellow wounded in two school buildings used as a field hospital near Bayombong Luzon. The Japanese officer order urged murder of the wounded while others blew in ward entrances to seal fate. some victims bayoneted or shot in bed.
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Manila
Luzon
Bayombong
129Th Infantry
2Nd Armored Division
7Th Tank Regiment
Frozen Alive style forecast warms to 95 at Florence
A playful weather note likens a carnival sideshow to today’s forecast of fair and warm conditions. Expect temperatures reaching 95 at Florence, 90 at Naples, 82 at Bari, with Bari 85 yesterday and Florence 96 as the peak readings.
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Mercury
Florence
Rome
Naples
Bari
Europe to carve Saarland and Austria in postwar zones
Reuters reports a plan to divide Germany's occupation zones with the French taking the lower Saarland, Rhenish Palatinate, most of Baden, and a corridor through Württemberg and Bavaria, plus Vorarlberg in Austria, leaving Bavaria and Württemberg to U.S. troops.
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Reuter
Germany
Saarland
Rhenish Palatinate
Baden
Wurtemberg
Bavaria
Vorarlberg
Austria
U. S
Jacques P. le Clerc
Lake Chad
Libya
Europe
Pacific
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France
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Press Association
Reeport
Salzburg
Hungary
St. Stephen
Elbe
Leipzig
Berchtesgaden
Luftwaffe
Berlin
SHAEF
Radio Luxembourg
Antwerp
le Bourget
RAF Transport Command
Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet
Red Army
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
UNRRA
Mouvement Unifie de la Renaissance
Pierre Cot
Aviation
Frederic Joliot-Curie
Vatican Radio
Schuster
Milan
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