Army service lowers class barriers and builds citizenship
The draft army unites rich and poor youths in shared routines, forging lasting friendships that persist into factory work and office life, improving American citizenship. Vernon Iowa’s closure shows how downtown markets die from mail order and centralized retail, erasing social centers. Congress debates tax, draft extension, and price fixing amid global trade tensions, while Britain warns Japan over Thailand and Burma road moves linked to broader war plans.
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Weekly News Analysis Edward C Wayne on Far East Attitude
Edward C Wayne analyzes British views on Japan and Thailand and the broader East Asian balance. The piece notes alleged Nazi victories against the Reds and reports Mussolini's son killed in a plane crash as part of a wider wartime briefing.
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Death of Mussolini’s Son in Italian Air Crash
Bruno Mussolini, Benito Mussolini's second son and a 22 year old captain of aviation, died in an aircraft testing flight near Pisa. He had fought in three wars including Ethiopia and the Spanish Civil War. Italian sources describe his actions as risky and daring during the present conflict.
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Germans claim massive prisoner tally and surround the Red Army
The German high command boasted of 895,006 prisoners taken and many more killed or wounded as it claimed the Russian front was collapsing from Smolensk to Bel-Tserkav y. Reds denied the breakthrough, saying mobile fighting continued along a 390 mile front with two pincers closing near Kiev.
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U S Presses Brazil to Claim Azores for Defense
A leaked Portuguese dispatch says the United States urged Brazil to assume control of the Azores for hemispheric defense. Berlin charged the move. Washington denied it, yet the Azores question loomed large in U S defense planning.
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Veteran Jack Farley First to Arrive at VFW National Encampment
Philadelphia reports Jack Farley known as the Irish Traveler arrived from Louisville Kentucky becoming the first veteran on scene for the national Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was awarded the first convention badge at the leads quarters.
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Notes of a New Yorker on film fame and wartime wit
A collage of cultural riffs and gossip from New York notes on George Jean Nathan Fort Wayne memorials Gary Cooper and Sgt York hopes, Broadway impressions, Goebbels quips and draft anxieties. Anecdotes touch on Clapper Lindbergh letters Pershing a Verdun march, London lemons, cocktails at the Savoy, and a stream of quotations from public figures and writers.
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Famous Romance of Paolo and Francesca in Thirteenth Century Italy
The tale of Paolo and Francesca da Rimini has inspired many works across arts. Col Ver’s notes operas by Debussy, symphonic poems by Tchaikovsky, Dante and Leigh Hunt poems, Dore Watts Rossetti Cabanel paintings, and plays by Ann Nunzio Pellica Echegaray Maeterlinck.
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