Diplomatic Bear Tales and Tiger-tilting Career
Joseph C. Grew, future ambassador to Japan, rose from a tiger tale to a long diplomatic career with posts in Cairo, Mexico City, Petrograd, Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, and Bern. Verne Marshall, Cedar Rapids Gazette editor, favors staying put and opposes foreign war, clashing editorially with William Allen White.
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Consolidated Features
York
Joseph C. Grew
Japan
Grew
Ataibensoka
Harvard
Singapore
Asia
China
Theodore Roosevelt
Mr. Grew
T. R
Cairo
Mexico City
Petrograd
Berlin
Vienna
Copenhagen
Berne
State Department
Commodore Perry
Cecil Lyon
Verne Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Marshall
Iowa Supreme Court
London
London Chronicle
Invasion: England Cautious Threats Across Europe
The report describes a tense European war scene with London damaged by incendiaries, forecasts a possible Germany invasion of Ireland, and notes movements of German troops into Hungary and Romania. It mentions RAF chief Dowding in Canada and potential German support for Mussolini in Libya and Greece.
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Hugh Dowding
Royal Air Force
Canada
Defense: Full Speed Ahead on War Production
Roosevelt's Big Four push to maximize munitions plants could accelerate ship and aircraft output. Fish warned Axis navies may grow six times U S capacity if Britain falls. Reuther Murray plan envisions 150000 planes yearly via Detroit area plants. January draft calls expand to nonvolunteers as World War II mobilizes labor.
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Roosevelt
Knudsen
Hillman
Stimson
Knox
Washington
Britain
U. S
Hamilton Fish
N. Y
Fish
Walter Reuther
General Motors
United Automobile Workers
Philip Murray
Reuther
Detroit
Hupmobile and
Graham-Paige
Murray
Fisher Body
Chevrolet
Ternstedt
Patterson
War Department
Fateful Year Warns Of War's Greatest Test
President Roosevelt warned in a New Year speech that 1941 may bring the decisive test for the nation and its economy. He said Axis victory would bring Europe Africa Australasia and the high seas under control and that the United States could face a gunpoint world. Despite mixed reactions at home and silence from Berlin Mussolini and Hitler signaled strength for the coming year.
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Europe
Congress
Interparliamentary
Norway
Fish
High Seas
America
Roosevelt
Jamestown
Plymouth Rock
Great Britain
Africa
Australasia
South America
United States
Americas
Britain
U. S
Wheeler
Mont
Alfred Smith
Alf Landon
Vandenberg
Mich
Austin
Maine
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
der Fuehrer
Germany
Mussolini
Virginia Gayda
Names in the News and Notable Passings
Ousted Overseas Press Club membership list notes editors and correspondents returning home. Daniel Frohman, 89, a leading American theatrical producer, died in New York. Agnes Ayres, 42, silent film star, died in Hollywood. John F. D. Roosevelt Jr., 27, graduated from Virginia and joined Wright Gordon Zachry Parlin as a lawyer. five others hired through the firm. Gloria Jean, 12, sued for 535000 by an agent claiming discovery and 10 percent of earnings.
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Overseas Press Club
New York
U. S
George Sylvester Viereck
Viereck
State Department
Munich
Daniel Frohman
America
Agnes Ayres
Rudolph Valentino
Hollywood
Jobn
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
University of Virginia
Wright, Gordon, Zachry and Parlin
Gloria Jean
Debate Over U.S. Warship Convoys and Panama Nazi Influence
Inner administration circles weigh using American destroyers to convoy Atlantic supplies to Britain, a move Roosevelt resists citing neutrality and war risk. In Panama, President Arnulfo Arias shows Nazi leanings, delaying airfields and anti aircraft defenses, while Harmodio Arias clashes with him. Army Air Forces chief Hap Arnold is revealed as a children’s author.
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Roosevelt
England
U. S
Royal Navy
Atlantic
Hitler
United States
Duke of Windsor
Woodrow Wilson
Latin America
Rio Grande
Panama
Europe
Antonio Isaza
Hamburg
Isaza
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Panama Republic
William Howard Taft
Arnulfo Arias
U. S. Army Air Field
Rio Fato
Harmodio Arias
State Department
Army Air Corps
Harold H
Hap’) Arnold
Air Corps
Rover Boys
Bill Bruce
Border Patrol
General Arnold
Defense priorities plan echoes WWI War Industries board
The piece discusses a Washington move to recreate a War Industries board like 1918 with Knudsen as working head and Stimson Knox and Hillman guiding key divisions. It warns of labor disputes, partisan criticism, and argues for free enterprise over regimented control.
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Washington, D. C
Defense
Washington
War Industries Board
Stimson
Army
Knox
Navy
Knudsen
Hillman
Priorities Commission
Stettinius
Sidney Hillman
Leon Henderson
Advisory Commission
Velkin
Armed Services
Organized Labor
Mr. Hillman
French flying ace De Sieyes backs De Gaulle from America
M. De Sieyes, once a World War ace who lost a leg and was wounded five times, travels with General De Gaulle’s American committee. He urges support for the free French and resists Nazi machinations, recalling his St Cyr days and reuniting with De Gaulle after the war.
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Jacques de Sieyes
Fifth Avenue
M. de Sieyes
Charles de Gaulle
General de Gaulle
France
St. Cyr
Paris
Arew
London
Ly the
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Turkey
Russia
Rumania
Italy
Libya
Mediterranean
Albania
Eire
Bardia
Manila
William Rhodes Davis
Altus G. Moore
St. Louis
William Schneider
Missouri National Guard
William Schneider Jr
Washington, D. C. F.D.R
Hugh S
Johnson JC Limited
WNU
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Duke of Marlborough
Thomas Jefferson
Adam Smith
Mr. Smith
Jefferson
Jesus
Edward C. Wayne
Western Newspaper Union
Cleveland
Ohio
City Hall
Harold H. Burton
Edward Blythin
Burton
U.S
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