Appeasement in Britain and the fate of Europe
The piece argues Britain under Chamberlain pursued appeasement to avert war by sacrificing Czechoslovakia and delaying conflict with Hitler. It contrasts Churchillian warnings with Davies and Stalin era politics, questioning who bore greater guilt for delaying confrontation with fascism.
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Britain
France
Russia
Hitler
Western
Joseph Davies
Stalin
Chamberlain
Europe
von Chamberlai
Hitlerien
Tain
Hitlerion
Soldier dies after sniomobile crash on Winnsboro Road
Technical Sergeant Edward Steadham of Selman Field died at 12 26 AM after a crash on Winnsboro Road near the 200 block. Another soldier, Sergeant Malone, remained seriously injured and the car overturned several times. Police say excessive speed may have caused the ditch collision. Funeral plans pending arrival of relatives from Texas. Steadham’s parents live at 108 North 8th Street in Monroe.
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Winewhere Road
Edward Steadham
St Francis Hospital
Selman
Steadham
Wepital
Miasouri Pacific Railroad
Seian
Malone
Winnsboro Road
Texas
Selman Field
Monroe
North 8Th Street
Explosion in California warehouse kills youth and injures twenty
In Gridley California an early morning blast at a Sutter-Butte Canal warehouse killed Ernest Lujon, 17, a high school senior, and injured about 20 others. The blast blew out four walls, hurled tin sheets 300 feet, and shattered windows blocks away. Fire was controlled about an hour later with no damage estimate given.
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Gridley
Calif
Sutter-Butte Canal Company
Ernest Lujon
Charles R. Burleson
Atrocities in Poland cited by U S and Britain
Washington and London vowed retaliation for German crimes in Poland as they pledged to punish instigators and perpetrators. The joint declaration described mass deportations and killings across occupied regions, with brutality and extermination reported by Allied officials. In Indianapolis, a missing WAC corporal was found murdered. police offered few clues as investigation continued.
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Washington
Poland
United States
Great Britain
Wanhington
London
Germany
State Department
United Stes
Bug
Lublin
Wolverton Seeks Newsprint Boost for War Effort
Representative Charles A. Wolverton and a congressional committee urge increasing newsprint production to support the war effort. They note Canada supplies 72 percent of U.S. newsprint and Mills operate at about 65 percent, urging wood cutting and pulp work as essential to the war.
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Seattle
Charles A. Wolverton
New Jersey
Post- Intelligencer
United States
Canada
Lyle H. Boren
Democrat
Oklahoma
Mills
War Manpower Commission
Selective Service
Portland
Wolverton
Boren
Clarence , Brown
Ohio
Richard Harness
Arizons
Kindley Beckworth
Texan
Roosevelt Back in Washington After Quebec War Conference
President Roosevelt returned to Washington from Ottawa following the Quebec war conference. He will meet with Secretary Hull General Marshall and General Arnold among others to discuss cross-Atlantic strategy and postwar plans. Dr. T. V. Soong Chinese foreign minister and British officials including Anthony Eden are involved in ongoing talks on Japan and allied strategy. Churchill expected within a week to join discussions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
T. Vo Soong
Hull
George C Marshall
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Winston Churchill
Britain
Quebec
Anthony Eden
Japan
Soong
White House
Marshall
Arnold Uo
Ottawa
Canada
Pope Pius XI to Broadcast Message From Vatican
Rome radio said Pope Pius XI will air a message from the Vatican and all Italian stations at 7 15 a m eastern war time on Wednesday. The broadcast's content was not disclosed.
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London
Rome Radio
Pius XI
Vatican
Bulgary Diet Turmoil Deepens As King Boris Dies
Bulgaria is unsettled by King Boris death as Premier Bogdan Philev faces a regency split. The Sofia metropolitan Stef an and Queen Mother Joanna appear anti German while Kyril and Philev are pro German but weak. A military cabinet may replace the regency and shift bow to German aims.
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Istanbul
Bulgaria
Boris
Adolf Hitler
Bogdan Philov
Simeon II
Lancer
Sofia
Stefan
Joanna
Pringe Kyril
Philen
Supreme Court
Philev
Eche Ee Eae
Uew
Russia
Illness Fatal to Mrs Allen Widow of Monroe Drug Pioneer
Mrs Willwin I Everett Allen widow of a Monroe drug store founder died at 1608 Riverside Drive after a long illness. Funeral at Peters Funeral Chapel Tuesday at 10. Interment in family plot in Old City Cemetery. Born January 23, 1873 in Monroe she was married in 1896 to Albert Allen. Survived by one daughter Mrs Francis Barringer and four grandchildren.
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Willwin I Everett Allen
Monroe
Riverside Drive
Peters Funeral
Old City
Allen
Pauline Campbell McFee
George W. McPee
Helmins College
Virgon
Alien
Louisiana State Heard of
Pharmacy
Francis Barringer
Monrot
Allen Jones Berringer
Jiyemy Barringer
Francis Berringer, Jr
Pauline Campbell Barringer
Missing Technical Sergeant Hatcher in Southwest Pacific
Technical Sergeant W. R. Hatcher, aerial gunner and son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hatcher of Shreveport, has been missing in action since August 20 in the Southwest Pacific. He served as first engineer on a B-24 Liberator, entered service in 1942, and had seen combat in Hawaii Australia and New Guinea. His last base was New Guinea and a brother serves in India.
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W. R. Hatcher
Shreveport
Southwest Pacific
Hatcher
News- Star
Morning World
Times
Army
Keesler Fight, Miss
Consolien Aircraft Plant
San Diego
Calif
Hawaii
Australia
New Guinea
W. C. Hatcher
India
Gene Arnold
News-Star—World
Graham Sur Lodge of Masons
Fortresses Strike at Orte Rail Center North of Rome
Allied air forces widen attacks along the Italian toe with heavy raids on Orte and Torre Annunziata railway yards 40 miles north of Rome. American B-26 Marauders lead the assault while RAF and Canadian bombers hit targets along the Bay of Naples and Calabrian coast, destroying 20 enemy planes while three Allied aircraft go missing.
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Orte
Rome
Noland Norgaard
North Africa
Rai Targete
Torre Annunziata
Bay of Naples
Italia
Italy
Torre Annunzieti
Torre Annunziate
Couxamunique
Calabrian
Cape Pellaro
Boston
Baltimore
Reggio Ca
Allied forces push back at Salamaua while Arundel Island seized
Allied troops face heavy Japanese counterattacks at Salamaua as ground forces slightly yield in places. Meanwhile Allied forces land unopposed on Arundel Island near New Georgia, within artillery range of Kolombangar. Allied air raids sink ships and barges at Voco Point and Hansa bes, with Burma operations hitting targets along the Irrawaddy and Kalemyo districts.
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Associated Press
Salamaua
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Solomons
Arundel Island
Arundel
New Georgia Island
Emy
Kolombangar
Voco Point
Lee
Hansabes
Wendk
Malang
Burma
R. A F
Irrawaddy
Humters Bay
Kalemyo
Believes Nine of His Brothers Were Killed in War
Ralph Payne a 27 year old merchant seaman visiting Corsicana Texas says nine of his brothers have died in wars. He tallies four brothers killed at Guadalcanal with US Air Force ground crew and five in the Navy likely lost at the Coral Sea. Payne served nine years in the merchant marine with li ships sunk under him. He plans to visit his parents in New Orleans.
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Corsicana
Tex
Ralph Payne
Payne
Whitney
Hillsboro
Guadalcanal
United States Air Force
United States Navy
Coral Sea
Merchant Marine
J. M. Payne
New Orleans
Prison guard charged in Ouachita Parish death of 11 year old
A negligent homicide charge was filed against J D Milam a guard at Ouachita parish prison camp after a coroner jury linked the death of 11 year old William Hopkins to heat exhaustion worsened by whippings. Milam had admitted administering the blows and investigators seek more evidence as the coroner and district attorney pursue the case.
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J. D. Milam
Ouachita Parish
George W. Lester
William Hopkins
J. T. French
Milam
Lester
Milton Coverdale
Hopkins
Coverdale
T. C Christy
R. R. Parker
L. C. Cripps
John A. Smith
Hope V. Tarver
Monroe
A. W. Towns
Mass migration barred in Berlin by Goebbels
Berlin officials, per ABC Madrid, barred residents from leaving home at all without approved reasons to escape future allied air raids. The policy aims to mobilize cleanup after attacks while maintaining city security. Allied raids near Schweinfurt Regensburg and Wilhelmshaven raids are noted with fighter activity over France and Germany.
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London
Berlin
Joseph Goebbels
Spain
Goebbels
Madrid
ABC
France
Germany
British Air Ministry
United States Eighth Air Force
Schweinfurt
Regensburg
Wilhelmshaven
Prince Eugen of Sweden Seriously Ill at 78
Stockholm report says Prince Eugen, 78, youngest brother of King Gustaf and noted painter, is dangerously ill. This disclosure comes from official sources in Stockholm.
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Stockholm
Prince Eugen
Gustaf of
Sweden
Danish Cabinet And King In Sweden Under Nazi Rule
Reports say Danish Prime Minister Erik Scavenius and other cabinet members, along with King Christian X, were interned at Sorgenfri castle as German forces imposed martial law. Danish naval ships fled to Sweden while fires burned in Copenhagen harbor and drone blasts marked dawn.
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Stockholm
Denmark
Copenhagen
Sweden
Oeresund
Christian X
Landskrona
Eric Scavenius
Christian
Sorgenfri Castle
Hermann von Hannecken
Two Explosions Kill Eleven at Sayreton Mine in Alabama
In Birmingham Alabama twenty one men died and twenty three were burned after two gas explosions at Republic Steel No. 2 Sayreton mine. Rescue teams worked under state inspectors as fires broke out and origin of blasts remained unknown. Among the dead were state mine inspector E J McCrossin and Republican chief mine inspector William Goodwin.
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Birmingham
Ala
Republic Steel Corporation
Sayreton
E. J. McCrossin
George Ferguson
William Goodwin
Republic
E. L. Evans
Bureau of Mines
Evans
Frank Loggins
Andy M. King
King
819 Arrests Made In Orleans Police Roundup
New Orleans August 36.4 The city police, enforcing the pick up order issued August 19, report 819 arrests to date. 110 arrests occurred over the weekend. One negro carried a pistol. The roundup followed the August 18 robbery and slaying of a shipyard worker by a group of negroes. Mayor Maestri ordered loiterers to choose work or jail.
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New Orleans
Maestri
Stalin claims Taganrog fall as USSR widens southern front
Premier Stalin announced the capture of Taganrog, southern anchor on the 1500 mile Russian front, after fierce fighting that routed German forces. Germany admitted evacuation and destruction of the port as Soviet cavalry and mechanized formations struck behind enemy lines.
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London
Josef Stalin
Taganrog
Stalin
Moscow
Associated Press
Sea of Azov
Red Army
Stalino
Hitler
High Command
Hornet Launch Signals New Air War Against Tokyo
The carrier Hornet was launched at Newport News as Secretary Knox hinted at large scale air raids on Tokyo. He recalled earlier Hornet battles at Midway and Guadalcanal and noted the Rising Sun capital would face bigger raids than last year’s bombing. The ceremony was briefly delayed by a faulty launch mechanism and hydraulic pressure concerns.
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Newport News
United States Navy
Navy
Knox
Tokyo
Rising Sun
Santa Cruz Islands
James River
J. B. Woodward
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Kus
Midway
Solomon
Amer
Woman sentenced to die ends life in reform facility
Mildred Mary Bolton, once spared from the electric chair for murdering her husband in 1936, killed herself by slashing her throat with scissors in her room at the Illinois State Reformatory for Women in Dwight. Bolton, a 53 year old Baltimore native and former Baltimore Sun fashion editor, had been commuted to 199 years hours before scheduled execution in 1937.
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Mrea
Mildred Mary Bolton
Cook County
Robert Jones
Liveingston County
Sherif Jones
Don Morrison
Joseph
Henry Horner
Bolton
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