Man About Town Sees War News Mix Of Gossip And Policy
A scrambled column notes John Scheer Hoover trimming Heinrich Himmler lure, Nazi journalists in the U S, and prices in a phonograph record war. It mentions Long Island station listening posts, Washington circles, and Gov James of Pennsylvania in long underwear, amid theater, politics, and foreign policy chatter.
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John—Scheer
Hoover
Heinrich Himmler
Mamburg Gestapo
Long Island
John Labor Lewis
Washington
Robert Sherwood
Lunts
Finland
Victor
James
Pennsylvania
Mussolini Opposes Hitler Plan For Italian Front During Russian Winter
Washington reports reveal a clash over a proposed Axis strategy to shield German lines in Russia by moving Italian troops into winter trenches. Mussolini warned the Italian forces could not endure Russian winters, risking pneumonia and death. The plan included shifting 250,000 Hungarians, 200,000 Romanians, 50,000 Slovaks, and 500,000 Italians to the trenches while Germany would shrink to about 100,000 men. Also notes a Roosevelt press conference impression by Hollywood reporter Jack Moffitt.
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Hitler
Mussolini
Rome
Axis
United States
tItaly
Africa
Washington
Roosevelt
Jack Moffitt
Hollywood Reporter
Earth
Under War Secretary Newsmen Question Patterson at Press Conf
An accessible excerpt describes a 1941 press conference with Under Secretary of War John Patterson, a lawyer and former judge, answering technical ordnance questions while dodging two political ones. It references Roosevelt era artifacts, silent about Iceland, and hints at before war policy shifts and disarmament efforts.
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New York
Etary
P. Patterson
Vegetable powered car idea beats steel in Ford view
A farm boy Henry experiments with turning vegetables into autos. Soybeans emerge as strongest candidate, with hay and jelly beans mentioned. The piece humorously notes government priorities could hinder the project and warns about absurd tire jacks from potatoes.
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Hank
Henry
Old Army Veterans and Public Life Reflections
Commentary on the interdependence of citizens and business in America, noting government spending, public employee luxuries, and a respect for old army figures like Maj. George Fitzgerald Lee. Describes immigrant stories, wartime service, and a critical view of wartime-era agricultural policies and hometown newspaper service.
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Bill
San Diego
Calif
George Fitzgerald Lee
Regular Army
United States
George Lees
West
George Lee
Ireland
Vermont
Dakotas
Wyoming
Colorado
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Shafter
Santiago
Spain
Funston
Manila
China
Make Mills
Chicago
Make
Marie Mills
Norwegian fiasco spurs Nazi show in Oslo theater
Goebbels sent Berlin’s opera company to Oslo to stage an elaborate Nazi propaganda event. Tickets sold cheap and publicity heavy, yet the house filled only with anti Nazi Norwegians. in the end no audience aside from a handful appeared while Nazi officials observed from the box.
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Goebbels
Berlin Opera Company
Oslo
Roosevelt State Papers Intro to Four Volumes
A condensed form of Roosevelt's state papers introductions, fourth in a series adapted from Col lier's Weekly and Western Newspaper Union. The essays present the President's forthcoming volumes, reflecting on world peace and responses to Hitler and Mussolini.
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Collier’s Weekly
Western Newspaper Union
Roosevelt
The Fight Goes On IV War and Neutrality by Roosevelt
Franklin D Roosevelt argues that since 1939 a general war looms, with Germany Italy and Japan preparing. He states US policy aimed to prevent bloodshed and protect Western Hemisphere peace, highlighting disarmament and tariff barriers as major global peace obstacles and noting US leadership in disarmament efforts.
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Lima
Peru
Europe
Congress
America
United States
White House
Germany
Italy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Japan
Rhineland
Western Hemisphere
Presidential Highlights on War and Disarmament Reflections
The remarks recount a near certainty of war since 1936 and credit early disarmament leadership in May 1933. It notes undeclared wars and U S messages to Hitler and Mussolini in 1939, the proposal for a peace conference with guns parked outside, and a warning of returning to war unless halted.
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Geneva
Hitler
Congress
Mussolini
Great Britain
France
The Call and Wartime Stocking Drive Parody
A spoof item notes OPM recruiting for silk substitute stockings with Marlene Dietrich as the symbol. It mocks wartime sacrifice appeals for women to contribute fashion items. Chrysler’s output is cited, producing tanks weekly using a historical design from a decade earlier.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
OPM
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene
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