Who's News This Week Highlights Stalin Links and Nazi Justice
A bygone era profile highlights Sir Archibald Clark Kerr as Britain’s adaptable envoy with strong ties to Stalin, while noting Otto Georg Thierack as Nazi justice minister wielding life and death power. The piece threads diplomatic lessons and technocratic optimism through historical figures and looming modern tensions.
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Otto Georg Thierack
Louis
France
Cologne
Reich
Thierack
Hitler
Dresden
Placid
Saxony
Supreme Court of It
People’s Court
Centralization urged after war program review and ration changes
A Senate Truman committee report faulted inadequate government planning and overlapping authority in war programs and urged centralized control next year. It noted 1943 meat rationing with two pounds weekly per person and broader reductions 12 to 15 percent, while coffee and beans provisions improved and civilian supplies aimed to match 1935–39 averages.
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Senate
Truman
U. S
Food Administration
Wickard
Axis Hopes Dim North Africa Line Staggered
Rommel and Von Arnim are cornered by Montgomery and Eisenhower forces at Mareth. After a punishing setback, observers fear a defeat that could rival the Stalingrad rout as Allied strength tightens around the Axis position.
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Mareth
Rommel
Stalingrad
Montgomery
8Th Army
Dwight Eisenhower
von Arnim
Weekly News Analysis on Ration Orders and War Echoes
The column surveys new ration orders aimed at healthier meals while recalling the Kharkov offensive from World War I as a parallel to current strategic pressures. It notes Congress weighing a postwar security plan amid ongoing wartime tensions.
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Kharkov
Congress
Nazi Offensive Mirrors 1918 Pattern in Kharkov Clash
Military historians compare the latest German push near Kharkov to the July 1918 Ludendorff Hindenburg offensive as both sides suffer costly defeats before a major victory. Nazi forces flood in with superior strength while Vyazma falls, signaling Russian gains toward Smolensk despite continued German pressure.
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Kharkov
Germany
Vyazma
Smolensk
Rzhev
Farm debts repaid as war income boosts loans
A Department of Agriculture report shows over 100000 farmer borrowers from 12 Federal Land Banks repaid their loans in full in 1942. Farmers repaid $303 million that year and deposited $21.2 million to cover future installments on land bank and commissioner loans. Demand for new farm mortgages fell about 22 percent in late 1942 versus 1941.
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Department of Agriculture
Land Bank
Commissioner
Cradle to Grave Security Plan Proposed
A postwar U S plan by the National Resources Planning board promotes freedom from want as policy. It calls for guaranteed jobs for veterans, underwritten full employment, public and private partnerships, unemployment funds, higher old age benefits, and expanded public works after the war.
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United States
National Resources Planning Board
Congress
Roosevelt
Victory for Mme Chiang Kai shek strengthens China air power
The United States activates the 14th air force in China under Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, expanding air power in the China theater and aiding Chinese resistance. The move follows Madame Chiang Kai shek’s American visit and signals broader Allied support. The Flying Tigers legacy augments manpower and planes for intensified operations against Japan.
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Chiang Kaishek
Washington
U. S. Air Force Command
China
China Wear
Japan
14Th U. S. Air Force
Claire L. Chennault
China Air Task Force
Flying Tigers
Chennault
Washington Digest on Wickard Farm Policy Battle
The piece outlines a wartime political fight over Secretary Wickard and farm policy. It traces the extension service and Farm Security administration clash, notes Farm Bureau roles, and recalls veterans of the AAA era while recounting wartime agriculture themes and garden memories.
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Farm Bureau
Farm Security Administration
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Congress
Wickard
Washington
Extension Services
American Farm Bureau Federation
AAA
Diplomatic Ties Warmed as Gowrie Receives Soviet Envoy
In Canberra Lord Gowrie received Soviet minister M Vlasov and said both peoples are fighting for their way of life. In Ankara Col Gen Rudolph Haarde was named commander in chief of German forces in Greece Thrace and the Aegean area replacing the late General Stuntz who died in a Bulgarian railway accident amid sabotage suspicions.
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Canberra
Australia
Russia
Lord Gowrie
Commonwealth
M. Vlasov
Ankara
Rudolph Haarde
Greece
Thrace
Aegean
Stuntz
Bulgaria
Haarde
TAX PLANS Rums Revived Like a Cat With Nine Lives
The Rum plan to skip a tax year and shift 44,000,000 taxpayers to pay as you go faces revival. House Ways and Means approved a 20 percent wage withholding levy from pay envelopes effective July 1, optional with each taxpayer. Proponents, mainly Republicans, back a bill embracing Rum principles. The withholding would apply to after deductions for dependents, not as an added tax, and would collect actual taxes through wages.
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America
House
Ways and Means Committee
Lend Lease Seen as Diplomacy Tool in War Aid
Washington observers predicted lend-lease shipments would dwarf prior records as the United States extended aid for another year. They cited aims of postwar stability and bases for security, noting total wartime aid reached 9.632 billion dollars in two years with Russia receiving 29 percent, including half of tanks and 40 percent of planes.
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Uncle Sam
Washington
House
Senate
America
Congress
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
United States
Mr. Stettinius
Russia
Allied forces push Japanese near Burma frontier and Munda base
In Chungking the Chinese claim they have driven the Japanese back toward the Burma frontier above Tung-yueh along the Salween river. In the Solomon Islands American dive bombers target the Jap held base at Munda, a key sea and air installation.
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Pacific
China
Chungking
Burma
Tung-yueh
Salween River
Solomon Islands
Munda
Japan plans six more training centers for colonist brides
The foreign broadcast intelligence service reports Tokyo intends 250 000 colonists and about 80 000 brides to go to the continent. Treasury gold reserves total 22.743 billion dollars. Berlin dispatch notes a shift from butter to margarine as ration cards reduce fat allotments starting March 8.
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Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
United States
Tokyo Radio
D.N.B
Berlin
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