Italy’s De Bono: Wildcat General Promises Empire Slogan
Gen Emilio de Bono frames Mussolini era aims as empire, a small figure famed for ferocious action and early police power in fascist Milan and Africa. Cartoonist David Low and British press face modern prewar stances, while Dr Emily Barringer advances military rating for women physicians in government service.
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York
Emilio de Bono
Italy
de Bono
West
Mussolini
Gerarchia
Empire
Nitti
Florence
Matteou
Si Duce
Africa
Milan
Bowery
American Medical Women's Association
Emily D. Barringer
Kingston Avenue Hospital
Brooklyn
France mustering peace terms and U S coalition cabinet
The column argues Petain cites lack of friends and weapons as France nears armistice with Germany. It notes Britain fears the French fleet, praises Knox and Stimson in a proposed U.S. coalition cabinet, and discusses a looming Atlantic fleet buildup and a possible universal service program.
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Petain
U. S
France
Adolf Hitler
Henri Petain
Somme
Aisne
England
Italy
United States
Germany
Rome-Berlin
London
Frank Knox
Henry Stimson
Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Henry L. Stimson
Knox
Navy
Stimson
Hoover
Trade war fears rise as Nazis push steel shipments
Analysts warned of a looming trade clash between Germany and the United States as Nazi steel firms offer under quota prices with delivery guarantees by October. Germany relies on controlling French and Belgian output to reach about 40 million tons annually, while Britain’s blockade and Latin American debt issues add to the tension.
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Germany
United States
Adolf Hitler
Europe
South America
Reich
Britain
U. S
Roosevelt
Henry Wallace
Norway
Holland
Denmark
Belgium
Congress
White House
France
South Atlantic
Latin America
Strasbourg
Hitler
Pacific
Atlantic
Dakar
Africa
Brazil
Recruiting Woes and European Food Pressures Across 1940s
Washington reports recruiting for the armed services suffers from poor youth health, including bad teeth, eyesight, and underweight recruits from lower-bracket families. The piece links crop control, Europe’s food shortage, and shipping bottlenecks to U. S. farming pressures and potential relief spending, with diplomatic notes on Argentina and Uruguay and a discussion of French naval assets and strategic balance.
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Washington
D. C
Army
Armed Services
Marine Corps
General Hughes Voices On CCC Boys Training And Draft Policy
The piece argues against labeling CCC training as non combatant and urges equal sacrifice in any draft system. It praises basic military instruction for boys as preventive insurance for future service, criticizes administration timidity, and stresses selective training for mechanized warfare roles.
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Washington, D. C
CCC
Kipling
Marshall
Army
War Department
Yale President cautions graduates on complacency toward totalitarian threat
President Charles Seymour warned Yale graduates against complacency as totalitarian states challenge democracy. Col. Lindbergh urged the U S to stop gestures with an open gun, while Senator Pittman urged Lindbergh to curb unfounded war fear. Ireland Prime Minister De Valera called on countrymen to volunteer for armed defense at a national rally.
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Yale University
Charles Seymour
Charles A. Lindbergh
U. S
Pittman
Nev
Lindy
de Valera
Eire
Ireland
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Boss Tweed
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Moscow
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New Zealand
Sydney
Australia
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Farnham F. Dudgeon
Western Newspaper Union
Democratic Party
Republican Party
U.S
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High Command
America
Henry Ford
Mr. Ford
River Rouge
Michigan
Ford Motor Cars
Texas
Railroad Commission
Tangle
James A. Farley
William D. Bankhead
Alabama
House of Representatives
Chicago
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Butler
British Munitions Purchasing Commission
Thell Field
Long Island
John Q
Espil
Argentina
Richling
Hughes
Loren D. Dickinson
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