Ground Swell Shapes postwar Europe and Greek fate
A columnist analyzes the postwar power shift in Europe as a broad popular current presses for democracy. It contrasts democratic resistance in Greece and France with monarchist and British-influenced moves, noting De Gaulle’s leadership and evolving French Communist stance toward democracy and national unity.
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Sam
France
Belgium
Greece
Papandreou
de’ Gaulle
Igrouns
Europe
Gere-agsin
de Gaulle
Free France
New York
Comuunists
Communist
Comintern
Communists Sans Patrie
National Resistance Council
Communist Party
Briefs and Dated Notes on Money and Politics
A compact column notes a new black money market hiding big checks to obscure deposits. It warns some cash deposits may bounce like rubber checks. It mentions a Java weight race by the Japanese, British views on love in Greece, and Archibald McLeish’s State Department role challenged by some senators for being a poet.
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AWN Service
Union Frust
Washington, D. C
Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
de Gaulle
International Organization For the Maintenance of
Senate
Greece
State
Europe
Archibald McLeish
John Hay
Ernie Pyle Describes War Voyage to North Africa Landing
Ernie Pyle recalls the Algiers landing with U S GIs aboard a crowded ship amid rain and scarce hot water. He notes strict shipboard discipline, a morale-boosting enlisted men’s show led by Brooklyn corporal Joe Comita, and the looming danger as Germany’s U-boat packs near Gibraltar. The dispatch contrasts civilian comforts with front line life and details Army camps spreading through Oran Casablanca and Algiers as soldiers adapt to new wartime routines.
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Conyer
Aml
Gibraltar
Joe Comita
Brooklyn
Gipsy Rose Lee
Gypsy
Joe
Germany
Earth
Jurag
Atiall
North
Atros
Oran
Solon
Easy to Crochet: Pattern 1239 for Borders and Motifs
Crocheting guide notes edge motifs for towels scarfs and pillowcases with bold horal designs. Pattern 1239 presents motifs transferred and worked with simple stitches aiming for five inch by five inch blocks.
Military progress brings renewed confidence among troops
Soldiers express eagerness to advance after the first phase of operations. In England, morale is high but impatience persists. Memories of the initial invasion night linger, including a jeep sliding off a landing barge into eight feet of water and barges crashing ashore with soldiers stepping ashore dry.
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England
Normandy Battle Wounds and Army Nurse Corps Appeal
A wounded veteran recalls ducking into a hedgerow near Saint Lo as bombs dropped and planes roared overhead. He credits Army nurses and blood plasma transfusions for saving him and urges able young women to join the Army Nurse Corps or serve six months in naval hospitals.
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St. Lo
Army
Army Nurse Corps
Red Cross
U.S. Army
Washington
D.C
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