Italy's Gayda warned on AxisJapan pact in Giornale D'Italia
The Italian official writer Virginia Gayda delivers a stern warning about the Axis Japan agreement in his newspaper piece. He has long been Italy’s editorial spokesman, chosen by Count Ciano to craft ominous prose suggesting trouble if the U.S. missteps.
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Giornale D' Italia
U S Japan tensions rise as Americans ordered home
The weekly analysis notes strained U S Japan relations since Japan joined the Axis, with Americans abroad ordered home and naval reserves called up. It cites Pearl Harbor basing pressure, Shanghai assassinations, and international pressures while detailing impending conscription and mobilization for war. Agnes Rosele, a nurse, joins Army Nurse Corps amid expansion. Navy and Army prepare 700,000 draftees with reception centers and new units forming. equipment including tanks and elastic trousers are moved to readiness.
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Canada
Presidential campaign rush and world crisis headlines
As the election nears, Willkie and Roosevelt tour battlegrounds with defense and labor themes. The Axis threat grows with German and Italian moves, British raids intensify, and a Columbia professor calls for limited academic speech during wartime. Other notes include citizenship for Steve Vasilakos and a California kidnap case ending in prison.
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Conscription Doctors and Balkan War Dispatches Revealed
Washington reports expanding medical and dental corps for the new draft army with thousands of physicians dentists and nurses. Diplomatic dispatches from the Balkans reveal Axis plans in Romania and potential moves toward Turkey amid Russian concerns. Rat poison shortages due to wartime shipping also noted.
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Public opinion polls on elections spark debate
General Hugh S. Johnson questions the value and ethics of modern electoral polls. He argues polls are biased, poorly regulated, and not a reliable guide to votes. He cites Gallup and Dunn Survey as examples while predicting a close election.
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Gallup
Roosevelt
Willkie
Mr. Landon
American Forecasts Inc
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Portia
Landon
Literary Digest
Georgia Widow Florence Gibbs Joins U.S. House
Florence Reville Gibbs, a 100-pound grandmother with a southern accent, was elected from Georgia to fill the late husband’s unexpired term. She becomes the ninth woman serving in Congress.
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Florence Reville Gibbs
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