Petain Under Pressure Holds Firm Across Nazi Demands
The article analyzes Marshal Petain in his August broadcast as resisting Nazi pressure to surrender France’s colonies and fleet. It details his cabinet choices and shifts from Laval to Darlan, arguing Petain blocks deeper collaboration while keeping Weygand and U.S. diplomacy in play to limit Nazi gains.
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Walter M. Daniels
Marshal Petain
Aeene Cansales
Vichy
Sinte
France
Hitler
Britain
Petain
Brita Yn
Ihis
Fac
Cotten
M. Laval
Third Republic
Pierre- Etienne Flandin
Germany
M. Flandin
Francois Darlan
Darlan
Maxime Weygand
French North Africa
Marseille
North Africa
Weygand
Thas
Uae
United States
Otto Abetz
Paris
Hemisphere
Washington
Europe
C.eOry CO
Marshall Petain
Pertain
Iran and Britain vie for Middle East control in war reports
The piece outlines Iran as a strategic barrier to Allied aims in the Middle East, with Britain and the Soviet Union poised to move. It notes Iran's 120000 forces, potential expansion, British air and naval pressure, Turkish movements, and a planned 700 mile railway from Teheran to the Caspian Sea.
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Iran
Russia
Asia Minor
Turkey
Mediterranean
India
Syria
Vichy French Legionnaires
Red Army
Middle East
British Isles
Iraq
Sir Archibald Wavell
Ak Cutheses
Oeu Saan
Ontadt
Persian Gulf
Teheran
Caspian Sea
Shah
Hitler
Two Payroll Bandit Suspects Captured After Auto Chase
Two highway robbers admit to a $2,600 hotel payroll holdup after a police pursuit that left a female pedestrian seriously injured. George Philips, 31, of the Bronx, and William Dird, 21, of Manhattan, confessed to the Berkshire Hotel job and at least five other holdups. Police found them in a sedan with two others shortly after the chase.
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New York
George Philips
Bronx
Wiliam Dird
Manhattan
Berkshire
Three Escape From Oregon Prison Sparks Large Manhunt
Three youths broke from Oregon State Penitentiary today taking the deputy warden's car as gunfire erupted. One was captured almost immediately, another stopped near Canby after a bullet damaged the vehicle, and the third vanished into woods pursued by state patrols. Two patrol cars were wrecked during the chase. The fugitives were James Quentin Anderson, 18, serving 10 years for manslaughter. Kenneth L. Hougham, 19, serving five years for grand larceny. and Melvin C. Carmichael, 19.
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Oregon Prison
Salon
Ore
State Penitentiary
Canby
James Quentin ‘Anderson
Kenneth L. Hougham
Melvin C. Carmichael
Chilean Line to Open New New York Office
The Chilean Line will open new offices in Rockefeller Center on September 1 as US trade with South America grows. The line operates three motor ships in the New York South American service.
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Chilean Ship Line
New York
Rockefeller Center
Jine
United States
South America
Fourth polio case reported in Sayre four cases in Sayre
Sayre Pennsylvania records a fourth infantile paralysis case with three of the four cases among visitors. Health officials urge residents to discourage visits by outsiders, stressing the appeal is for cooperation not quarantine as stated by Daniel Evans and Dr. Rodney L. Stege of the Sayre Board of Health.
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Sayre Sayre
Sayre
Ch'given
Daniel Evans
Rodney L. Stege
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