Refugees Flock Across Atlantic As Battle of England Impends
An editor's note frames Roger Shat's analysis as opinion. The piece chronicles early 1940s air raids on eastern England, German losses, Churchill, Goering, and fighter planes. It also covers Allied and Axis moves, political conventions, and international figures amid mounting war tensions.
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Atlantic
England
King George
S Rimer
Winston Churchill
Churchill
France
Belgium
Holland
Rhine
Manther
Goering
London Gets Polish Daily Newspaper Amid Europe Tensions
London launches a Polish daily, moving from Angers in France, marking a new morning journalism era. The Renault factory near Paris, run by Nazis, employed 15,000 in better times. Renault cars feature a rear radiator. Sweden eyes a subdued role in a united Europe with several diplomatic pacts. US refugees arrive from Lisbon, Galway, and beyond as emergency voyages surge.
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London
Angers
France
Renault Automotive
Paris
Renault
Sweden
Europe
Germany
Norway
Russia
Denmark
Italy
Fulgary
U.S
Manhattan
Lisbon
Portugal
Emer
Washington
Galway
Ireland
Odds and Ends Reflect On Wartime Morale and Rationing
The piece mulls frivolous activities during blackouts in Milan and Lithuania’s status. It notes buggy rides as a wartime curiosity and asks rhetorical questions on romance and birth rates. It references Zionists and reactionaries in a sharp, ironic tone.
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Neeeing
Petting
Milan
Lithuania
Burma Road gains for Chiang as Japan pressures British and French colonies
Nippon pressed Britain and France to curb arms and supplies through Burma and Indo china to Chiang Kai shek at Chungking. Britain relented allowing Japanese inspectors while United States lawmakers urge fortifications along Nova Scotia Bermuda coast noting weak Yankee defenses and proposing 18,000 mechanized troops in the northeast.
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Nippon
Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
Indo-China
France
Europe
Chungking
Chians
China
Horekong
Far East
Chieng Kaishek
England
House Military Affairs Committee
Smith
Connecticut
Faddis
Pennsylvania
Burns
Tennessee
United States
Nova Scotia
Bermuda
Newfoundland
Bermanda
Trinidad
New England
East
Names in the News: Cromwells and 500 Refugee Adoptions
The Cromwells vow to care for 500 British refugee children. Doris Duke, the wealthiest woman, reportedly lost her baby born premature. Britain debated private adoption of 500 refugee children by Duke and husband James Cromwell. Seven American ambulance men in France were decorated for bravery. King George VI gained aide de camp Brigadier J. C. Wickham. Lebrun resigned as French president, Petain appointed, and a wartime triad governed. US General Marshall urged military mobilization and universal warning, as defense plans grew muddled.
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Cromwells
Doris Duke
Britain
James Cromwell
U. S
Canada
France
Thomas Esten
Massachusetts
Charles Willen
New York City
Jack Calhhoun
Paris
Laurence Jump
Nentucket
Lloyd Moore
Washington
Edwin de Nevu
Draper Kauffmann
California
Jump
Stuttgart
Germany
George VI
J. C. Wickham
Wickham
Albert Lebrun
Marshal Philip Petain
Petain
Pierre Laval
Max Weygand
Adrien Marquet
George Marshall
United States Army
National Guard
Marshall
Soiled Wallpaper and Home Soot Remedies
A reader asks about soiled wallpaper caused by hot air from radiators and odors from dust heated in boilers. Remedies include keeping radiators clean and using soot removers from oil burner dealers, plus brushes or vacuums to remove deposits.
Home Style Tips From The Household Page
Tips on using broiled tomato slices to decorate and flavor steaks or chops. Methods to remove wall grease stains with blotting paper and warm iron. Advice on water for tea and making pink shades with salt water. Milk in blue water cleans rice curtains. A potato can absorb excess salt from soup.
Destroying Monster War Warned by Bryce
Bryce warns that the destroyer monster war could destroy us unless we actively destroy it.
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