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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1941
Page
6
Edward C. Wayne details a government probe into rearmament as strikes disrupt plant operation critical to defense. The report notes plant closures intensify defense supply gaps while Balkan fronts dominate the war scene and shape public concern.
Editorials debate if the U S is at war while labor unrest explodes with strikes at Ford River Rouge Allis-Chalmers and the soft coal sector. Congress votes for a labor program probe amid violence and mounting defense disruption.
The report notes Nazi reconnaissance over southern Serbia and an air raid alarm signaling Berlin’s push toward armed confrontation. It highlights 75,000 eastern-front soldiers, Croat leader Macek’s cabinet position, and Simovic sought cohesion, while German press builds a case of abuses to justify immediate action.
The U S seized all German Italian and Danish ships in U S ports and sent 875 seamen home while Axis responses ranged from stern warnings to assertions of breach of international law. Cordell Hull argued the action rested on a 1897 Italian precedent. Deportation proceedings began against German national Jan Valtin, author of Out of the Night.
Cairo dispatch reports British Imperial forces cornering nearly 100,000 Fascist troops in East Africa. Asmara fell with little combat after a white flag delegation. Addis Ababa near, with Duke of Aosta’s 40,000 men plus reinforcements bringing total to about 60,000. German troops later acknowledged. Bengasi retreat notes.
France grapples with rising bitterness among about 30 000 foreigners in refugee camps in the unoccupied zone. A daily camp bill of one million francs strains the budget, while relief organizations and labor camps shelter 60 000 more displaced people including Jews anti Nazi Germans and Spanish Republicans. The Mexican government runs the best camp for Spanish war veterans.
A collage of society chatter from New York on Hollywood stars and nightlife plus official U S wartime dispatches from Italy. Readers recall Judy Garland and Noel Coward while officials discuss Mussolini’s regime and Italian army sentiment, Gestapo presence, and stalled corn and wheat quota debates.
The article argues that labor turmoil in the United States mixes honest worker aims with gangsters, fifth columnists, and alien influences seeking to undermine American government. It contrasts 1898 soldiering hardships with 1941 comforts and notes rising procurement and morale changes, urging anti union-busting legislation and national cohesion.
The piece notes repeated Axis harassment of American journalists over two years. Richard Hotteler, a United Press reporter, is detained in Berlin amid a history of expulsions such as John Whitaker of Chicago from Rome.
In a sharp freewheeling column, the writer questions why press groups do not eject Nazi or fascist figures abroad and cites Manfred Zapp still in the Senate and House press galleries despite indictments. He notes State Department discouragement and mocks media criticism and a coming wealthy backer launching a new men's magazine.
A Broadway remark says a chorus girl is clever enough to pretend dumb to fool a sap. The witticism frames the performer as calculating, using feigned ignorance to extract favors from a wary wiseguy.
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