Britain Loses Sympathy Over War Measures Insight
Weekly analysis by Joseph W. LaBine surveys shifting U.S. public opinion on Britain and Germany, noting British seizures and naval actions, plus responses from Cordell Hull. It also covers Gandhi’s independence stance in India, Japanese protest over British actions, Dutch and Belgian reactions, and Romania’s neutrality amid oil pressure.
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U.S
Germany
Hemisphere
Cordell Hull
Hull
U. S
Morgenthau backs budget cuts while dodging tax specifics
Secretary Morgenthau urged balance and reduced spending but avoided defining tax types. He suggested raising the federal debt limit by five billion dollars above today’s 45 billion, stating no danger, while Congress trimmed 11.5 million from the treasury post office supply bill, totaling 128.14 million.
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Morgenthau
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Henry Morgenthau
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury-Post Office
Congress Eyes Cuts and Finland Aid Debates
Lawmakers push reductions to dodge new taxes and debt limit rise while debating Finland aid through the Export-Import Bank and a possible extra 20 million for non military purchases. House fights over reciprocal trade act as Dies committee gets renewed. Nye takes Borah seat on foreign relations panel as St Lawrence seaway talks pause. Ohio New York Minnesota Michigan Wisconsin lawmakers press for deep sea channel funding.
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Congress
Finland
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Jesse Jones
Jones
House
Wells and Means
Farm Bureau
Edward O’neal
National Grange
L. J. Taber
Martin Dies
North Dakota
Gerald P. Nye
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
William Borah
Idaho
Boise
Washington
St. Lawrence Seaway
Wind shifts ease payments for farmers under new plan
Mortgage debt payments of 75 000 farmers with land bank loans will be extended under a reamortization plan after Henry Wallace takes full control of the farm credit administration. The Federal Communications Commission weighs reallocating radio bands to NA regional agreement signatories the U S Canada Cuba Haiti Mexico. The National Labor Relations Board rules free speech is not absolute in a case against Ford for pamphlet distribution criticizing the NLRB and unions.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Communications Commission
U.S
U. S
Canada
Cuba
Haiti
Mexico
Freedom — National Labor Relations Board
Ford Motor Company
NLRB
Questioned biographical quiz on political figures and exiles
A prompt asking about Giuseppe Motta's country of presidency and five-term leadership, Edwin Carewe's recent news reason as a film director, Ignace Paderewski's new role as president of a government in exile, Earl Browder's passport fraud trial outcome, and Wang Ching-wei poised to head a government.
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Giuseppe Motta
Edwin Carewe
Ignace Padeczewski
Earl Russell Browder
U. S
Wang Ching-wei
Notable World War II Detail Cast in Exile Govitions
A summary noting a Swiss location, a death, Poland in exile with a government in France, Browder receiving a four year prison sentence and appealing, and Japan's puppet government in China.
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Switzerland
Poland-in-exile
France
Browder
Japan
China
Labor and foreign policy clash shadow UMW convention
John L. Lewis used a Columbus speech to launch a broad attack that echoed against Franklin D. Roosevelt and hinted at a Wheeler third-term push. Observers questioned union control as 45 resolutions urged a Democratic term, while global tensions grew with Japan and Finland in wartime context.
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United Mine Workers
Columbus
John L. Lewis
Franklin Roosevelt
Lewis
Garner
McNutt
Montana
Burton K. Wheeler
John Lews
In Rome Press Blames Fire on Orazio Sinking Delay
Fascist outlets in Rome argue the liner Orazio, burned at sea, might have reached Barcelona if not halted by a French warship. In Berlin, under Hitler, the pocket battleship Deutschland was renamed Luetzow after slipping home through the Allied blockade.
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Rome
Orazio
Barcelona
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Luetzow
Germany
Riverdale outlines air war shift and 10000 American planes
General Johnson reports Lord Riverdale's Washington visit confirming a Franco British policy pivot to air power. Britain plans to buy 10,000 American planes and boost production to 2000 monthly by spring. Also notes on Florida ship canal funding ideas and Democratic strategy to delay the GOP convention. Further Finn munitions and Stalin’s Finland campaign discussed.
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Washington
Lord Riverdale
Riverdale
Canada
United States
Britain
Strange Facts From Collier's Wide World
A traveler in remote Australia may cut a telegraph wire to signal for help and be answered by linemen tracing the cut with instruments. In the United States about 1,500 licenses go unused each year while 10 million dial phones lack an exchange starting with Q. Buddha is pictured wearing eyeglasses and revered, and the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind runs a camera club where blind members learn to photograph without help.
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Australia
Medina
New York Institute For the Education of the Blind
Collier’s
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