25 Sep 1941
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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1941
Page
1
U S warships extend protection of lend lease shipping to vessels of all flags as far as Iceland amid conflicting war reports. Ceditorial note clarifies opinions express the analyst view not the newspaper’s.
Recapitulation of anti interventionist sentiment around President Roosevelt shows calm after his address to naval skippers to shoot and ask questions later. The piece notes merchant shipping, unrestricted submarine warfare, and Knox's Milwaukee speech promising protection for lend lease shipments between North America and Iceland, signaling convoy-like protect ion without using the term.
A cancellation of a speech by Senator Reynolds of North Carolina scheduled in Newark New Jersey sparked a debate over national defense and isolationist views. The club cited Nazi acts and President Roosevelt’s speech as reasons for the withdrawal, while praising the senator’s constitutional rights and New Jersey’s strong opposition to his positions.
Conflicting dispatches from the Russo German front depict Russians holding the siege of Leningrad while advancing near Smolensk. Prominent leaders M Simoen Timoshenko and Gen. Jacob Kreuzer are cited as directing central front efforts. Reports claim several towns captured and possible Dnieper river gains, with mixed evidence of German retreat and aNapoleonic era reference. Eighty Nazis expelled from Tehran under armistice terms, with a portion sent to Siberia.
Reports describe widespread Norwegian resistance during a British raid on Oslo with crowds cheering bombers, labor disruption, and acts of sabotage. Finland debates continuing the fight after Kursk recapture news, amid Lindbergh criticism and Hearst’s anti American stance sparks.
London reports tax bills arriving as Britons face up to half their earnings in the year ending April 5. New Orleans notes September storms forcing hundreds of war-prisoners to safety. Vichy appeals commutation as condemned men linger. Washington cites Charlie Chaplin subpoena over The Great Dictator while Hitler is lampooned.
A wide quoted plea outlines public debt reaching roughly 125 billion dollars across municipal, county, state, and federal levels, with total assets estimated at 75 billion. It warns of bankruptcy as debt outstrips assets and urges defense spending, big guns, and air power to defend the coastline and nation. The piece recalls the county agent system's creation and a Chicago travel scout's wartime impact on travel.
Franklin D Roosevelt is called a good landlord by Moses Smith, a tenant in Hyde Park. Smith says the President visits, helps with a new well, and keeps crops and cows with a steady hand. He worries about defense cuts, and notes government uses roads and rail lines for wartime needs.
Aimed at shifting focus from government aid to individual responsibility, the WPA program directed by Mrs. Florence Kerr emphasizes a community role in defense needs. A wartime propaganda sign appears on the Vo Volkischer Beobachter for the first time since the war began, signaling unclear significance.
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