Epochal day as Leopold forces halt arms in WWI style clash
In a dramatic wartime report, King Leopold orders Belgian troops to surrender, Europe faces strategic uncertainty as German forces sweep from Cambrai to Boulogne and Calais. Allied retreats and air war intensify, with Dover isolated and negotiations rumors stirring in Paris about a possible separate peace.
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Léopold
Belgium
France
Britain
Cambrai
Bapaume
Abbeville
Somme
Boulogne
Calais
Dover
England
Channel
Antwerp
Dunkirk
Ostend
Paris
U S Defense plans vs British fascists and German threats
A mid-century column surveys defense costs and political tensions. It notes Eden era anti parachute zealots, Oswald Mosley linked figures, and Yard moves against alleged fifth columnists. It weighs costs of 50 000 airplanes at six to seven billion dollars, staff needs, and potential universal conscription. It discusses Lindbergh Rickenbacker Butler and Dies Committee scrutiny amid looming 1940 campaign.
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Anthony Eden
Scotland Yard
Oswald Mosby
Sonan
Ed Curzon
Five Yard
Archibald Ramsay
Eton
John Beckett
Acanti
Haidland Fedl
Ireland
Joe Eail Markyrie
Roosevelt
England
France
Charles A
Lindbergh
America
Rickenbacker
Smedley Butler
Marines
United States
U. S
Senate
War Department
Navy Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Dies
Dies Committee
Russia
Germany
Dies & Co
Congress
Immigration-Naturalization Service
Labor Department
Department of Justice
Landon
Knox
Luxembourg’s Grand Duchess Flees to France in Turbulent Times
Caesar received bare dues from tiny Luxembourg as League disarms Europe. Grand Duchess Charlotte, 44, ruler of a fragile state, flees with Prince Felix and six children to France after 21 years of peace, amid renewed terror and war talk.
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Consolidated
York
Charlotte of
Luxembourg
League of Nations
Europe
Charlotte
Prince Felix of
Bourbon-Parma
France
Marie Adelaide
House of Nassau
Wilhelmina of
Holland
Washington Stirs With War Talk In Defense Drive
Washington manhandles the defense drive as President Roosevelt seeks 1.196 million more for army, navy and munitions while war news from Europe grows grim. The piece notes political maneuvering, Johnson Act debate, and fears of fifth column threats amid talks of rapid air power and shipbuilding plans.
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Washington
Wallace
Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Roosevelt
Europe
Hitler
United States
Holland
Belgium
America
Dies
Special House Committee
Lutherans under Nazi rule claim shocks church world
The Lutheran faith, America's third largest Protestant group with over four million adherents, faces a startling statistic as more than half of the world's Lutherans are reportedly under Nazi rule, a disclosure noted in the report.
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America
Martin Luther
War Talk: Bruckart Calls for Balanced View on War
William Bruckart criticizes Washington officials for alarm over U S involvement in Europe's war. He urges calm and balanced thinking and says there is no reason for panic, urging readers to focus on prudent analysis rather than muddled rhetoric.
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William Bruckart
National Press Bldg
Washington, D. C
Washington
Roosevelt
Capitol
Senate
House
Congress
Hitler
Holland
Belgium
Norway
Senator Austin
Vermont
Austin
U. S
Europe
Bruckart
Quick Household Tips From an Old Magazine
To protect walls while cleaning switch plates cut a plate sized hole in cardboard and place it over the exposed area. For pillow filling crush camphor with feathers to keep them fresh. Use art gum to clean gloves shoes and wallpaper. Add a bag of pickle spices to boiling water for fish ham or tongue. Mix strained honey cottage cheese broken nuts and butter for sandwich filling.
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Western Newspaper Union
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Potomac
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WNU
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Tiny
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Herbert Morrison
Morrison
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London Labor Party
Dick Whittington
Hollywood
Dorothy Arzner
Roy del Ruth
University of Southern California
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Bruchart
Washington Digest
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Navy
Hiram Johnson
Marine Corps
Kansas City
St. Louis
United States of America
Hi’ Johnson
California
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Chicago
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Fatus
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Borg-Warner Corporation
Norge
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