Balkan powder keg looms in Mediteranean front
Allied forces move to close the Turko Syrian frontier within 48 hours signaling new military actions. Ankara reports Romania seeking armistice terms and Turkey draws closer to the United Nations with Gen Richard G. Tindell named as U S military attaché and Turkish pilots sent to the United States for training. Axis propaganda notes large landings and troop concentrations near Pantelleria and along the southern Balkan frontier while Syria remains a strategic base against Crete and the Dodecanese.
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Italy
Balkans
Ankara
Romania
Turkey
United Nations
Richard G. Tindell
America
Pantelleria
Rome
TuroTives
Syria
Crete
Dodecanese Islands
Greece
Congress Praises BUREAUCRATS and War Agencies
The House appropriations committee approved 2 939 441 504 dollars for 18 civilian war agencies including the Office of Price Administration and the Office of War Information. The panel praised the agencies while admitting past mistakes and urging support for wartime burdens. Secretary Knox cancelled the Elk Hills oil reserve contract after a Justice Department ruling found it beyond legal authority. Norman Littell testified a White House report deemed the deal illegal and invalid, while Knox said improprieties were present by both sides in negotiations.
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House Appropriations Committee
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
United States
Navy Department
Standard Oil Company of California
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Frank Knox
Department of Justice
Navy
Norman H. Littell
House Public Lands Committee
Department
White House
Knox
Corn loans called as U S faces corn shortage and war needs
The government called 47 million bushels of 1942 crop corn due for repayment effective July 15 as part of emergency steps to ease the corn shortage. Private elevators hold 25 million bushels likely seized to support war production. In the Pacific and Europe, Allied air and ground actions continued with significant battles around Orel in Russia and major air operations against Japan.
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War Food Administration and
Commodity Credit Corporation
Corn Industries Research Foundation
J. B. Hutson
Stalin Promises Soviet Aid To Poland After War
Premier Joseph Stalin assures Polish patriots in Russia of Soviet support for a strong independent Poland postwar. The exchange excludes the Polish government in London, amid strained Soviet-Polish relations over mass executions and espionage charges. Allied bombing campaigns target German cities from Cologne to Kiel while Sicily bases face air assaults. A congressional panel urges reducing federal personnel, criticizing wasteful practices and calling for merit system reforms.
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Kiel
Oberhausen
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Congressional
Civil Service Commission
War Goods: UN Production Outpacing Axis As War Effort Surges
WPB Chairman Donald Nelson told a house appropriations committee that the United Nations are producing about 125 billion dollars of arms and war supplies annually, nearly double the Axis 65 billion. He projected American military output to peak at 90 billion dollars a year in 1944.
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United Nations
WPB
Donald Nelson
House Appropriations Committee
Week in Review Highlights From War and Trade News
New York laundries report fashion shift as they cap shirts per family at five weekly. Pantelleria battle cost the United Nations forty airmen in action. General Stratemeyer cites air staff losses while Howe announces a planned Canadian transatlantic air service. Argentina seeks closer ties with the United States, says War Minister Farrel.
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New York
Pantelleria
United Nations
George E. Stratemeyer
U.S. Air Staff
Taxes: 50 Billion Goal Adjusted for 1944 Budget
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau said the tax request to Congress would be trimmed to 12 billion dollars rather than 16 billion. The aim remains to lift the annual tax bill to 50 billion for the 1944 fiscal year, funding about half of war costs "as we go." The goal is 4 billion less than Roosevelt's January budget.
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Henry Morgenthau
Treasury
Congress
Morgenthau
Rationing Plans Outline Eight New Programs
Louis J. Kroeger an OPA official told the house appropriations committee that eight new rationing programs are being prepared and may start within a year. Two plans will be enacted immediately covering cooking and heating stoves and a universal foods allotment system for institutional users. The rest including coal rationing depend on other agencies.
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Louis J. Kroeger
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Kroeger
The Little Prince as a Hopeful Postwar Guide
Roosevelt extols Antoine de Saint Exupéry's The Little Prince as a bridge between wartime tragedy and a reborn Italy and world. The piece highlights themes of taming, friendship, and essential truths seen through a soldier author and a post Pantelleria victory context.
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White House
Roosevelt
Pantelleria
Italy
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Arras
Saint-Exupery
South America
Africa
Briefs on Wartime Movements and German Civil Defense
Soldiers average eight railroad moves from induc tion to embarkation for overseas. Radio France reports Gestapo agents in every German university due to student agitation. The Baltic Gauleiter orders removal of church bells as part of total mobilization. German civilians told to hasten building new underground shelters as current air raid shelters offer scant protection from Allied heavy bombs.
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Baltic States
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