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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
2
The Writers' War Board urges readers to sign a pledge advocating world organization led by the United Nations, probation for Axis powers, no secession, abolition of imperialism, and an international police force to prevent future wars, while pledging loyalty to humanity alongside country.
Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts serves as Honorary Chairman and Carl Carmen as Executive Chairman of the new Pledge for Peace Committee. The group intends to promote the public declaration through planned activities and outreach.
Citizens engage in broad postwar planning activities including consultations with planning groups, reading and discussion of the Pledge at public meetings, signature drives, and media explanations of the Pledge’s assumptions and concrete proposals.
Sigrid Schultz argues in her book that Germany aims to restart war if appeasement or disunity allows weakness. She cites 1940 German General Staff plans and predicts Nazism’s appeal endures even after defeat, urging vigilance around 1965.
The Red Cross highlights letters from home as vital morale ties for all soldiers including new inductees and prisoners of war. They are the tangible sign the family has not forgotten, valuable due to communication delays from the Provost Marshal General's Office.
A cable from the International Red Cross in Switzerland warns that colored post cards with propaganda slogans are being sent to American prisoners of war. The letters risk destruction on arrival in Germany, denying prisoners the morale-boosting contact from home.
Pvt. Chris Hudgins son of Mr and Mrs J Hudgins of Enfield is recovering at the 64th General Hospital North Africa from wounds suffered in Italy October 15 serving with the infantry of the 5th Army He fought in North Africa Sicily and Italy and expects to be sent home soon He is a brother of Mrs Guy Murray formerly of this city Red Cross coverage is widespread with 77 percent of chapter headquarters in small communities.
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