Balkan tensions rise as Axis Balkan bastion fears mount
Reports from Ankara indicate Romania sought armistice terms with the Allies. Turkey shows closer ties to the Allies with Gen Richard G. Tindell named as U S military attache in Ankara and Turkish aircrew sent to the United States for training. Axis sources report British forces mass near Turkey and Allied troop training in Syria foreshadow Mediterranean operations from Syria toward Crete and the Dodecanese.
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Mediterranean
Italy
Balkans
Ankara
Romania
Turkey
United Nations
Richard G. Tindell
America
African
Pantelleria
Rome
Syria
Crete
Dodecanese Islands
Greece
Bureaucrats receive praise for civilian war agency funding
The House appropriations committee approved 2 939 441 504 dollars for 18 civilian war agencies including the Office of Price Administration and Office of War Information. The panel issued a favorable report noting mistakes will occur but arguing criticism harms the war effort.
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House Appropriations Committee
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
United States
Loans Called As Corn Program Moves On
The government called loans on 47 million bushels of 1942 crop corn effective July 15. Private grain in elevators may be seized to supply war products unless crops move. War fronts see major Soviet fighting near Orel and renewed German pressure. American air forces shoot down 77 Japanese over Guadalcanal. Kendari raid damages airfields as Chiang Kai-shek’s forces report gains south of the Yangtze.
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War Food Administration and
Commodity Credit Corporation
Corn Industries Research Foundation
J. B. Hutson
Pacific
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Army
Navy
Kendari
Celebes Island
Darwin
Australia
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Suiyan
Chiang
Yangtze River
Ree
Postwar Assurances and Allied Air Attacks Across Europe
Stalin pledges Soviet aid to a strong independent Poland after the war in a message to Polish patriots in Russia, while the Polish government-in-exile is sidelined. Allied air forces launch a six day assault, targeting nine German cities including Cologne and Dusseldorf, and strike five Italian air bases in Sicily amid heavy anti aircraft fire.
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Josef Stalin
Russia
Stalin
Congress of
Soviet Union
Sikorski
London
George V
North Africa
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Dusseldorf
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Wilhelmshaven
Cuxhaven
Bremen
Bochum
Kiel
Oberhausen
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Reich
Sicily
Pantelleria
Navy cancels Elk Hills oil deal with Standard Oil
Secretary Knox announced cancellation of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve contract after a Justice Department ruling that the agreement exceeded authority. Assistant Attorney General Littell testified a White House report found the agreement illegal and invalid, while Colonel Knox said no improprieties were found in negotiations.
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Standard Oil Company of California
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Frank Knox
Department of Justice
Navy
Norman H. Littell
House Public Lands Committee
Department
White House
Knox
New York Laundry Policy Sparks Fashion Talk
Weekly highlights indicate New York laundries will cap at five shirts per family, sparking talk that a dirty shirt may become a fashion trend. Maj. Gen. Stratemeyer notes Pantelleria cost U.N. 40 airmen. Howe announces Canadian transatlantic mail service will start soon. Argentina seeks closer ties with the United States per War Minister Farrel.
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New York
Pantelleria
United Nations
George E. Stratemeyer
U.S. Air Staff
C. D. Howe
Argentina
United States
Edelmire J. Farrel
Treasury trims tax request to 12 billion in 1944
Secretary Morgenthau announced the treasury would limit new tax requests to 12 billion dollars rather than 16 billion, still aiming to push the total tax bill for the 1944 fiscal year to 50 billion. He said the plan seeks to pay half of annual war costs gradually, about 4 billion below Roosevelt’s January budget objective, with further recommendations due before summer recess.
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Henry Morgenthau
Treasury
Congress
Rationing Plans Outlined by OPA Official
Louis J. Kroeger, an OPA rationing official, said eight new programs are being prepared and may start within a year. Two plans will take effect immediately, with six more, including coal, pending directives from other agencies. The initial two cover cooking and heating stoves and a general food allotment system for institutional users, not directly affecting consumers.
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Louis J. Kroeger
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Kroeger
Government payroll waste sparks call for large personnel cuts
A joint congressional committee urged the Civil Service Commission to eliminate unnecessary federal staff arguing the payroll has tripled since World War I and the government could run with 300,000 fewer workers. They criticized personnel officers and urged a complete reorganization to prevent wasteful practices and protect merit system gains. WPB chair Donald Nelson told a House committee that UN war production totals about 125 billion dollars annually, roughly double Axis output, with US manufacturing expected to hit 90 billion in 1944.
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Congressional
Civil Service Commission
United Nations
WPB
Donald Nelson
House Appropriations Committee
Little Prince Praise Shows Postwar Philosophy From Roosevelt
Roosevelt reads a Cited fantasy review linking Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince to postwar governance and national rebirth. The piece notes the author’s aviation service and quotes the fox parable about taming and friendship, ending with Pantelleria bomb fallout and Allied raids.
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White House
Roosevelt
Pantelleria
Italy
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Prince
Arras
Saint-Exupery
South America
Africa
Brief items from the warfront and Germany
Soldiers move an average of eight times by railroad between induction and overseas service. In Algiers Radio France Giraud reports Gestapo agents stationed in every German university amid student unrest. The Baltic Gauleiter orders removal of church bells as a total mobilization measure. Germans urged to build new underground shelters as existing air raid shelters prove inadequate against Allied heavy bombs.
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Radio France
Henri Giraud
Algiers
Gestapo
Baltic States
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