Weekly News Analysis on Nazi Invasion and Europe Reactions
The column discusses Nazi invasion of Scandinavia drawing Berlin closer to the Reds as Europe awaits Rome’s reaction. Sumner Welles with Premier Paul and another French official appear in a Western Newspaper Union illustration. Welles denies some claims in the accompanying map panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scandinavia
Berlin
Europe
Rome
Western Newspaper Union
Sumner Welles
U. S
Paul
Welles
Holland
Portugal
Amsterdam
Lisbon
George VI
England
India
John Buchan
Buchmahite
Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge
Achlone
Paris
Evite Thyssen
Hitler
Switzerland
Earoy
United States
Thysen
Thyssen
Hitler Thyssen
Fritz Mendel
Austria
Hedy Lamarr
Prince Sterhersberg
Starhemberg
Invasion Triggers War Front Shifts Across Europe
European conflict widens rapidly as Germany seizes Norway and Denmark. Britain and France pledge aid. Sweden and Finland stay neutral while Russia presses. leaders trumpet blitzkrieg talk and dispatch speeches to rally publics. Allies fear U.S. entry may hinge on actions in the Adriatic and Norway patrols.
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Europe
North Sea
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Germany
Canada
Mai
Hernand Frasce
Manch Br
United Sistas
Airmesier
Goe
Fibmasier
Goebbels
Hitler
Fuehrer
NAMES IN THE NEWS Sparks India China and Russia Tensions
The report surveys Indian leaders like Subhas Chandra Bose amid calls for complete independence. It notes Weang Ching-wei’s effigy in New York and Finland Russia ties with Ivan Zetov named Russian minister to Helsinki. Roosevelt census remarks spark partisan critique as Hopkins directs massive data collection. The piece also covers U.S. naval maneuvers at San Diego and Japan’s protest reactions amid broader East Asia tensions.
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Mehetma Gandhi
India
Subhas Chandra Bose
Bose
Weang Ching-wei
Chiang Kai-shek
George Washington
Sur Yat Ber
Finland
Russia
Ivan Zetov
Helsinki
Letvia
Zetov
BATTING FOR THIRD TERM FALLOUT SHAPES 1940 RACE
Campaign maneuvering swirls around Garner Farley and Ickes with talk of a Garner Farley ticket and anti New Deal aims. West Virginia threatens third party pressure while Wheeler and Lewis hint at runs. Art loot travels to Portugal as upheaval, arrests, and political plots ripple through Europe.
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Ickes
Garner
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Dever
Senator Vandenberg
Harold
Toxes
Farley
Texas
Wilkie
West Virginia
John Lewis
Lewis
Landon
Kansas
Wheeler
Montana
LaFollette
Franklin
Remarkable Tiny Magnet Defies Size And Weight
A GE lab produces a sintered alnico magnet smaller than a thimble that can lift 200 pounds, 4 450 times its weight. The British Museum guards the world’s longest love-letter at 10 000 words on 400 sheets. Finland requires literacy for marriage for over 250 years. Teide’s shadow at sunrise and sunset stretches about 150 miles.
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General Electric
British Museum
Tenerife
Canary Islands
Atlantic Ocean
Collier's
Decision Was Quite Just Considering the Evidence
A magistrate hears two men claiming debts and a dogbite dispute. He concludes the matter lacks basis for a quarrel, suggesting the men should combine to support their mother, delivering a congruent moral rather than a formal verdict. The scene reflects a humorous, old fashioned approach to petty dispute resolution.
Fragmented Freedom Quote on Individual Rights
A fragment discusses real freedom as pursuing one’s own goods in one’s own way while not hindering others or impeding their efforts to obtain Miu. The text emphasizes personal liberty within social limits and echoes classic rights language.
Palindromes and Truths From a Quizzing Page
Answers cover wedding forms in the Semoen islands, a palindrome, libel, water chickens as rail birds, two years of schooling for Benjamin Franklin, front teeth as incisors, trademarks require use, and Molly Pitcher as a water carrier from Revolutionary times.
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Semoen Islands
Elba
Benjamin Franklin
United States
Canada
Brazil
Molly Pitcher
Gems of Thought Be. Sure that straightforwardness overcomes windings
The excerpt reflects on pursuit of virtue through knowledge and reason. It contrasts rational governance with prejudice, urging clear, virtuous thinking. Notable quotes attributed to Bacon and Johnson emphasize sovereignty in knowledge and the need to align thoughts with reason.
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Bacon
S. Johnson
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Reynaud
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Foreign Office
Washington
Sumner
Ame
Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Frst
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Churchill
Chamberver
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Gordep Cons Strummer
Torrmindis -Ontario
Conant Sooui
Hull
Arfate
Jugoslavia
Adriatic
Italy
Mussolini
Depan
Far East
John Bull
Japan
Gordon D. Conant
Ontario
Senator Tobey
Hop-kins
U.S
San Diego
Pacife
West Coast
Pacific
Jepan
LaGuardia
Hausfrau
Glenn Guertin
Chicago
Dee W. Robertson
Webster
Luewig Tieck
Sioux City
Parlane
Bill Wechter
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