17 Jul 1941
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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1941
Page
1
Edward Wayne analyzes a pivotal U S deployment to Iceland as a strategic hemisphere defense move. The report links the action to Allied air superiority and potential implications for Britain’s Baltic and Russian front campaigns. He weighs risks and expected German responses.
Editor notes that opinions expressed are those of the news analyst and not of the publication, as released by Western Other. The piece clarifies editorial stance and involvement of the analyst in shaping coverage.
Congress learned from President Roosevelt that U S naval forces have occupied Iceland to supplement and eventually replace British troops. The move, taken with Iceland’s new government’s permission after declaring independence from Denmark in May, aims to forestall German pincers in the Western Hemisphere.
The British believed Nazi attention to the Reds in the East gave them a chance in the war. After weeks of attack on Russia, Luftwaffe daytime raids over occupied Europe and western Germany surged, with heavy bomber operations and mounting British losses. Berlin offered little confirmation, but British estimates suggested German raids would devastate many targets. Submarine activity near the Baltic likely rose to counter Russian ships.
General Marshall argues to remove time and place limits on U S draftees as he pushes for a 2 5 million trained army. He warns current bands of service would falter if draftees are separated from regular forces. Opposition from Senator McNary centers on keeping geographic and 12 month restrictions.
Reports say Britain, aided by U S tanks and lend lease planes, aims to advance in Cyrenaica to relieve Tobruk and pressure Italo-Nazi forces while Franco British prospects in Syria improve amid Vichy setbacks. London also considers an invasion after heavy bombardment but holds back on continental landings.
Ottawa reports emerging political pressure in Canada for a form of compulsory or selective service to replace voluntary enlistment still in force. In Washington, the White House confirms Colonel Donovan, after two inspection tours of Europe’s war centers, will receive a significant defense role.
A wartime pause delays Capitol renovations while architect David Lynn explains a planned 2 foot 6 inch east wing extension to add 58 rooms and better access. The work, tied to ongoing war priorities, would complete Thomas Walter’s design and improve space for reporters and members.
An elderly Chicago pipe maker forecast in 1940 that Hitler would invade Russia in 1941, conquer European Russia but at the cost of a million German lives, and that Germany would eventually lose the war amid a grim, costly struggle for food, oil, and slaves. The piece notes that many doubted such visions, while Britain urged Stalin to heed the danger and speculates on the war’s price to Hitler.
Brief notes report a Washington venture Biblical Photoplays to present Bible stories in color moving pictures supplementing nearly 4 million Bibles printed in 1939. The piece also notes a Will Rogers statue in the Capitol and his quip about watching Congress, reflecting Capitol lore.
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