Nazi Plot to Assassinate Envoy Aimed at Pretext War
American prosecutors at the international war crimes tribunal presented steno notes of Hitler and Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka showing Nazi plans to provoke war with the United States. They charged a 1938 plot to assassinate a German envoy to trigger invasion of Czechoslovakia and to subjugate neighboring states, with aims to starve Russians in occupied areas.
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Wes Gallagher Muernberg
Japan
Pearl Harbor
International War Crimes Tribunal
Hitler
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Yosuke Matsuoka
United States
U. S
Sidney S Alderman
Thomas
Russia
Alderman
German High Command
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
Germany
International Military Tribunal
Austria
Can Alrborne
Names on Streets Stir Debate Over Italian Heritage and Mussolini
A Providence mayoral inquiry reveals Esson Street renamed to Usso Street to honor Albert Russo, the first Rhode Islander of Italian descent to die in the current war. The piece attacks Italian-American figures who praised Mussolini and notes lingering tensions with pro fascist sentiment and street name changes amid Pearl Harbor era scrutiny.
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New York
Provice
Ussolini
Usso
Albert Russo
Tate
Mussolini
Pearl Harbor
Cock-Crow
Terry
Providence
Trogant
Duce
Blefly
Eak
Russo
Silone
Damato
W York
Phila Iphia
Chuce
Tts
Pershing
Anti labor bills advance in Congress amid strike fears
Washington leaders warn Congress may push harsh anti labor legislation if strikes persist. House leaders Sabath and Connally say postponement may extend a week while two bills to regulate unions face action. Supporters urge a crackdown before more unrest. critics warn of harming labor.
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Washington
Congress
Fairman Sabath
Clinois
Rules Committee
House
eCormick
Massachusetts
Les
Sabath
Indonesians retreat from Soerabaja as British battles flare
In Soerabaja Java on Nov 2 British reports say Indonesians retreated southward toward Lang about 55 miles away while fighting flared in Ba lia. Inside the naval base area Indonesian forces attacked a British unit with a 47 millimeter gun and were dispersed. Casualties reported include five Indonesians killed and several wounded, with two Indian personnel killed and one wounded. Batavia notes a British company killed about half a force of roughly 100 Indonesians.
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Yatavia
Java
Soerabaja
Ba‘ia
Lang
Soeratnn
Batavia
Army brides abroad could reach 100000 G I's
Washington estimates as many as 100000 GI brides may have married abroad with 22000 already seeking entry. From January, 6000 to 10000 GI brides are expected each month, limited by ship space. An international board in Britain will handle visas and transport with US agencies. An GI wife can become a citizen in two years.
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Washington
United States
War Department
Army
State Department
G. I
G. L
New Zealand
Britain
War, Navy and
State Departments
U. S. Public Health Service
LeBlanc Madden in Jacksonville
Baton Rouge La Nov 26 Attorney Gen Fred S LeBlanc and John Madden special assistant have gone to Jacksonville Fla for the 39th annual conference of the National Association of Attorneys General Madden represented Louisiana in Washington in support of a proposed resolution by Congress to grant states quit claims to Tidewater lands and mineral rights legislation Madden to speak on Tidewater Lands and Mineral Rights Legislation Tuesday and LeBlanc scheduled to speak Tuesday through Thursday
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Baton Rouge la
Fred S. .Lebane
John Madden
Jacksonville
Fla
National Association of Attorneys General
LeBlanc
Madden
Louisiana
Washington
Congress
Forty school children believed drowned in Lake Chelan crash
In Wenatchee Washington Sheriff Bruce Parkinson said 40 school children may have drowned when a school bus left the highway and plunged into Lake Chelan ten miles above Chelan. Reports said seven or eight pupils escaped while the bus sank in fifty feet of water. A diver was being rushed from Coulee City and the driver was identified as Royal Randall.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Bruce Parkinson
Lake Chelan
Parkinson
Chelan
Coulee City
Royal Randall
Nation to vote on largest steel strike in history
Pittsburgh dispatch November 26. The National Labor Relations Board will conduct Wednesday the nation s largest strike vote in history affecting 640 000 C I Q steel workers in 776 plants. Regional director Frank M Kleiler says 500 extra staffers were hired to run the ballot and the election cost is about 40 000 dollars.
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Pittsburgh
National Labor Relations Board
C. I. QO
Frank M. Kleiler
NLRB
Ward Strike Tops Nationwide Labor Disputes
About 75,000 C I O employees at Montgomery Ward began a one week demonstration strike. The C I O United Automobile Workers expanded activity as the General Motors walkout reached six days. Nationwide idle workers total rose to 575,100 with key actions among machinists in San Francisco and Greyhound drivers in 26 states.
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Iby Associated Press
Montgomery Ward and Company
C. O. United Automobile Workers
General Motors
Northwest Pacific Lumber
A. F
Maine
Ilinois
Indiana
A. F. of L
C. I. O. Machanists
San Francisco
Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company
Providence
R. 1
Greyhound
Ward
United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store
Chicago
Detroit
Albany
Jamaica
N. Y
Denver
Kansas City
United Nations Charter Enabling Bill Backed by Connally Vandenberg
Washington report on Senate push for enabling legislation to join the United Nations. Senator Connally recalls last July’s 89 to 2 ratification vote and predicts some opposition. Senator Vandenberg aids the effort, outlining how troops, sanctions, and diplomatic roles would be handled, with Congress to set troop quotas.
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Washington
Connally-Vandenberg
Senate
Tom Connally
Texas
Foreign Relations Committee
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Fennally
San Francisco
Vandenberg
Ihs Cove
Secon
Security Council
Congress
United States
General Assembly
Cuss Box Idea Proves Effective For Good Fellows Fund
A proposed cuss box in Monroe would collect donations from profane swears and fines for those who deny guilt to aid Good Fellows. The plan, already used elsewhere, could inspire broader giving to help destitute families, easing social unrest and aiding relief efforts.
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Monroe
Good Fellows Fund
Hull says Japanese were hell bent for war in 1941
Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull testified before a Senate committee that Japanese leaders were hell bent for war in November 1941. He said the 10 point note he delivered was misunderstood and that five points favored Japan. Hull defended keeping the fleet at Pearl Harbor during late 1941 and described Japan as one of history's worst international desperadoes.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Senate House
Pearl Harbor
Army
Hull
United States
Japan
Farlier
State Department
Gerhard Gesell
Hawaiian
Auto Workers urge meeting amid GM wage dispute
The United Automobile Workers press for federal mediation as Walter Reuther leads an international meeting in Detroit. GM has rejected a 30 percent wage rise and arbitration, while the union ponders non-striking ways to support strikers and keep production halted across 25 states.
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International Executive Board
General Motors
Walter P. Reuther
C. BE. Wilson
G. M
Harry W. Anderson
Reuther
Wilson
Tool
Amalgamated
Japanese witness defends hell-hole prison ship
Manila reports Lt Gen Shigoku Koh testifies the Orouku Maru prison ship housing 1300 Americans was well equipped and says most captives were marched to the vessel with some taken by truck. He mentions 40 guards and a lieutenant. Survivors had described brutal holds driving men to madness before the ship was sunk by American forces. Koh denies prisoner protests about conditions. He also notes only awareness of Carroll C Grinnell and three others being taken for questioning. Rome adds Vittorio Orlando, former WWI premier, likely to form a new government after Parri resignation.
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Manila
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Shigoku Koh
Japan
Koh
U. S
Yamasuita
Cabanatuan
Santo Tomas
Carroll C. Grinnell
New York
Congress Gets Big Flood Bill
Washington Nov 26 A large wartime water use and flood control bill goes to Congress with more than 220 million dollars planned for projects authorized but halted during the war. Reclamation 93000000 flood control 88900900 rivers and harbors 25500000 Mississippi Valley flood control 15000000. The plan aims to start peacetime operations and jobs across the country, with total backlog estimates over 5 billion dollars and ongoing requests to fund further projects through mid 1949 and beyond.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
House Appropriations Committee
Mississippi Valley
Army and Reclamation Engineers
Army Engineers
T. M. Robins
Reclamation
Army
Pearl River
Miss
Congress seeks end to wartime powers and six month extension
Washington reports the House judiciary committee urged rescinding most war powers soon while extending the war powers act six months. The panel said rationing and priority controls should continue to unwind the wartime economy, noting a serious tin shortage and need to maintain material controls to unclog production.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
House Judiciary Committee
Congress of Necessity
Chiang Kai-Shek Unveils New Economic Council
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek announced a supreme economic council to push a five year program to raise living standards. Premier Soong chairs, Vice Premier Wong is vice chair, Chiang to personally direct reconstruction as troops push toward Mukden. The move follows wartime disruption and aims to expand transport trade and health, with land reforms in Communist areas noted.
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Spencer Moosa
Chungking
Chian Kai-Shek
China
Supreme Economic Council
Manchuria
Mukden
T. V. Soong
Wong Wen-Hao
Chiang
Generalissimo
Council
Japan
U S Proposes Drawdown of Forces in Iran by New Year
The United States asks Britain and Russia to withdraw armed forces from Iran by January 1, as diplomatic efforts grow over the Azerbaijan uprising. Washington seeks Moscow’s response to a note delivered by Ambassador Harriman and reports on Soviet and Iranian positions amid fears of a UN peace test.
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Washington
United States
Iran
U. S
W. Averill Harriman
Moscow
State Department
Russia
Ilanoveyran
Azerbaijan
United Nations
Azerebaijan
Red Army
V. M. Maelotov
Madjid Ahy
Molotov
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