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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1940
Page
20
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Rear Admiral Charles E. Courtney, returning from Lisbon, urged that the Atlantic and Pacific require aircraft carriers to place the U S air force in the middle of the ocean. He arrived aboard the Yankee to report to Washington and noted joint air sea action could defend both oceans. He warned of reliance on no other power and praised sea power to operate beyond shore limits.
Samuel F. Pryor Jr. says the forthcoming Republican national convention could be the party’s last chance to produce a leader and avert what he calls the demise of this form of government amid New Deal policies. The convention opens in Philadelphia June 24 and is described as a do or die effort by Pryor. An unrelated note mentions the frog jumping contest at Angel’s Camp, California.
In New York on June 13 1944 Vladimir Jabotinsky announced that about 100000 American Jews of military age are ready and willing to fight for the Allies. He said the neutrality act would soon be changed to allow enlistment and that American public opinion supports such a change. Colonel J H Patterson praised Jews as capable airmen and noted six international money order post offices across El Paso Laredo New York San Francisco New Orleans and Seattle.
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