Sinclair Named as Likely British Ambassador to U S
London reports indicate Sir Archibald Sinclair Air Minister is the strongest candidate to become the next British Ambassador to the United States with a decision expected within 24 hours. Other names such as Viscount Halifax are mentioned but no appointment has been confirmed.
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London
Washington
United States
Archibald Sinclair
Viscount Halifax
Erelidos
Halifax
Roosevelt
Foreign Office
Munich
Eden
Neville Chamberlain
Hitler
Mussolini
Chamberlain
David Lloyd George
Winston Churchill
Robert Hudson
Churchill
Lord Lothian
British Forces Encircle Bardia as Siege Forms
Reports from Cairo say British troops, reinforced by infantry and tanks, created a semicircle around Bardia with warships offshore completing the trap. Simultaneous actions in western Libya push to oust Italian garrisons near Giara bub oasis while RAF raids threaten Italian air bases, aiming to keep Fascist planes grounded.
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Dia
Bardia
Egypt
Libya
An Italan
Giarabub
Oasis
Reuters
Cairo
Royal Air Force
Italy
British Fleet Air Arm Attacks Rhodes Stampalia and Scarpanto
London reports the fleet air arm attacked Rhodes Stampalia and Scarpanto in the Italian Dodecanese off the Turkish coast on December 17. Fires were seen in the cities, weather hindered observation of results, and all British aircraft returned safely.
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London
Admiralty
Fleet Air Arm
Rhodes
Stampalia
Scarpanto
Dodecanese
Firemen Called for Gift Toy Drop at Amarillo Home
An Amarillo boy's mother asks the fire department to visit their house and bring donated toys. A fire truck arrives as the woman offers a sack of toys to be fixed for poor children. In New York a bomb squad inspects a suspicious suitcase near the natural history museum containing nose drops.
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Amarillo
Tex
Dee
New York
Natural History Museum
Pheasant Shooting Incident Near Snow Hill
B Clay Chapman reports that while driving along a highway he fired a single shot from a .22 rifle at two pheasants flying over a field. Both birds were killed the slug pierced the head of the first and then the second, yielding two dead pheasants.
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Snow Hill
B. Clay Chapman
Scio residents plan joint Christmas birthday party
Six Scio residents born on Christmas Day held a joint birthday party to celebrate their day, hoping friends would give gifts. Friends reportedly skipped the party saying the date was too near Christmas.
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Scio. Ore
Scio
Draft Board Waits for Contents to Fill Envelopes
In Scotts Bluff County Nebraska 2500 fancy paper food containers arrived at the draft board office causing puzzlement as officials await items to place inside. The board had ordered 2500 envelopes to accompany the containers.
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Gering
Nebd
Scottsbuff
Patrolman Stahl Requests License Number
Patrolman Charles Stahl sought a state automobile license bearing 232,323 after his police motorcycle license 23 and draft number 2323. He received 232,322 instead, noting the recurring 23s show real demand.
Knudsen Heads New U.S. Defense Production Office
Knudsen is named Director of Production Management as part of Roosevelt’s plan to centralize defense authority. Hillman and Stimson join the new board with Knox, forming a committee tasked with national defense purchasing and priorities. The board will act with real powers, subject to Roosevelt’s ultimate authority if actions harm the country.
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Britain
Congress
National Defense Office
Roosevelt
Knudsen
Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ of America
Knox
Stimson
Hillman
American Labor Party
Defense Advisory Commission
Italian Forces Occupy Durazzo 1915
Italian forces occupy Durazzo as of December 21 1915 marking a wartime advance in Albania. The occupation comes amid Allied operations in the Balkans with Durazzo serving as a strategic port and rail hub in the theater.
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Durazzo
Rome Bares Hard Battle Near Bardia in North Africa
Italian High Command reports heavy artillery and air actions near Bardia as British forces push from Egypt toward Libya. It notes Italian successes including an important position in Albania and attacks on Greek targets, with Greek attacks repulsed along the Albanian front and Italian bombers targeting supply lines and military works.
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Rome
North African Desert
Britain
Egypt
Libya
Fifth Air Squadron
Bardia
Ionian
Albania
High Command
Fronier Strip
Aden
Gulf of Aden
Somaliland
Corfu
British Raid Adriatic and Greek Reconnaissance Reported
London reports a British battleship cruiser destroyer strike into the lower Adriatic on December 18 pouring heavy shells into Valona. Greek destroyers under Admiral Cavadias conducted a Dec 15 16 reconnaissance to Saseno near Valona Harbor without encounters.
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London Admiralty
Cavadias
Adriatic
Saseno
Brindisi
Berati
British Fleet Bombards Bardia to Aid Libyan Offensive
From aboard a British battleship, Dec. 21, the Mediterranean Fleet pounds Bardia with high explosive shells. The bombardment targets Mussolini's Libyan bases and troop concentrations, blocking Graziani's forces from fleeing toward Tobruk and creating large craters along the Bardia Tobruk road.
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Britain
Mediterranean
Bardia
Navy buys Madisonville to run as Philadelphia ferry
The Madisonville motor ship, a 141-ton sightseeing vessel that carried thousands from Battery to Statue of Liberty since 1927, is sold for 60000 to the Navy for use as a Philadelphia ferry. The Navy also buys the 3000-ton cargo ship Yale for 136000 to patrol Long Island Sound.
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Madisonville
Navy
Frederick G. Reinecke
Third Naval District
Charles B Sutton
Jersey City
Philadelphia
Yale
Storin Land Improvements Company
Stamford
Nazi Raiders Smash At Liverpool And Prices Across Region
Britain reports night raids by Nazi aircraft hitting Liverpool and other targets including Ostend Antwerp Le Havre Flushing Boulogne Amsterdam Dublin Monaghan and hospitals in the Midlands. Eleven cities experienced damage with slight overall destruction outside Liverpool.
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Berlin
Ministry of Information
R.A
RAF
Ostend
Antwerp
Belgium
le Havre
France
Flushing
Netherlands
Information Ministry
Coastal Command
Boulogne
Amsterdam
Eiie
Dublin
Monaghan
Northern Ireland
London
Midlands
Wales
Liverpool
British Press Association
Cathedral Damaged in Berlin Raid Kills Six
Berlin officials report a British air raid killed six people and injured 17. The main cathedral suffered severe damage and Lustgarten Square in front of Keiser Palace was blasted. The Zeughaus museum and Potsdam theater also sustained damage with three civilians killed there.
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Berlin
Lustgarten Square
Kaiser Palace
Adolf Hitler
Ministry of Church Affairs
Hitler
Potsdam
Bombs Near Dublin Injure 3 in Dun Laoghaire
Three people were injured and several houses damaged when two bombs dropped by an unidentified air raider hit Dun Laoghaire seven miles from Dublin. A second blast in County Monaghan damaged two farms and injured a farmer. The incidents marked the first bombing near Dublin since the war began.
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Dublin
Dun Laoghaire
Kingstown
Eire
County
Monaghan
Northern Ireland
Government Information Bureau
Night Club Hostess Held in Death of Newborn Baby
Emma Louise Chichester, 20, a Copaigue night club hostess, was arrested on first degree murder charges in the death of her newborn yesterday. Assistant District Attorney Lindsay R Henry said she confessed to smothering the infant and was held at Bayshore Hospital awaiting arraignment. A sister, father, and a worker were held as material witnesses.
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Babylon
Emma ‘Louise Chichester
Jhostess
Copaigue
Chiefs
Lindsay R Henry
Suffolk County
Miss Chichester
A. Bayshore Hospital
Mary
Taree Chichester
Peck County
German-U.S. tensions over Nazi espionage and Cross affair
Reports detail Germany demanding recall of Cecil Cross Hunt and Mrs Deegan from Paris for aiding an escaped British officer. The United States opened investigations while Goebbels warns on radio discipline and German access to foreign broadcasts as war extends.
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Ernest Bevin
Roosevelt
Bevin Sali
Dresdent
Fuehrer Hitler
President Roosevelt
Hitler
State Department
Washington
Cecil Cross
Hunt
Mrs. Deegan
Secret Service
Germany
Berlin Hitts Nazi Help for Italians
Berlin dispatch reports editorials stressing unity among Germany Italy and Japan amid the Axis pact. Propaganda Minister Goebbels warns Germans against listening to foreign radio. Joint commissions for the German Italian Japanese pact are announced and editors hint at possible German aid to Italy in Africa.
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Berlin
Germany
Italy
Japan
Africa
Joseph Goebbels
United States
East Asia
Voelkischer Beobachter
Nazi Party
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Red Star Attacks Roosevelt Plan as Aid to Capitalists
The Soviet Army newspaper Red Star criticizes Roosevelt's Britain aid plan as designed to guarantee American capitalist profits. It argues the program keeps war material production income in U S hands, guarantees English orders via American firms, and frames profits for U S manufacturers while minimizing Congress opposition.
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Red Star
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Britain
England
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United States
Congress
Hull Says Officials Will Be Withdrawn
Secretary Hull announced the State Department would remove two embassy secretaries Cecil M. P. Cross and Leigh Hunt and receptionist Mrs Elizabeth Deegan from the American Embassy in Paris at Germanys request. He noted governments may demand such withdrawals without giving reasons and said a preliminary probe found no clear evidence they aided a British officer to escape.
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Asheville
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United States
Cross
Rhode Island
Hunt
District of Columbia
Rangoon
Brown
University of Chicago
Palermo
Naples
Aden
Lourenco Marques
Port Elizabeth
Capetown
Barcelona
Washington,d.c
University of Michigan
Sorbonne
France
Brussels
Commerce Department
Washington
Ottawa
Canada
Hull
State Department
Cecil M. P. Cross
Leigh Hunt
Elizabeth Deegan
Lehman Urges Lawyers in National Defense Role
Governor Lehman told Fordham Law School alumni that lawyers must aid national defense in intellectual and moral aspects. He urged translating constitutional ideals into daily life to defend equality liberty and justice. Archbishop Svellman thanked Lehman for resisting democracy saboteurs posing as patriots.
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Lehman
National Defense
New York
Fordham Law School
Francis J. Svellman
Italian Warship Attacks Adriatic Coast Ignites Balkans Speculation
The High Command reports Fascist ships attacked the Ionian coast of Greece with heavy hits amid unclear details. British commentators claim Italy may cede Adriatic and Mediterranean control, reshaping Balkan and Near East alignments and offering Britain new leverage against Nazidom.
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High Command
Ionian
Greece
Adriatic
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Italy
Albania
Balkan
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Dardanelles
Near East
Germany
Europe
British Press Association
Officers Installed in Oswego Sons of St. George
Installation of officers of the Sons of St. George was held in Oswego this week. Sidney Mills headed the staff as president with Walter Workmen as vice president and Fred Osselton as secretary.
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Oswego
the Sons of St. George
Sidney Mills
Walter Workmen
Fred Osselton
Japan names Hiranuma Home Secretary in Cabinet push
Tokyo December 21 Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma called to the key post of Home Secretary in a cabinet reshuffle aimed at strengthening government amid tense world politics. The 75 year old former prime minister takes control of home affairs as Gen Heisuke Yanagawa becomes minister of justice.
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Tokyo
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma
Japan
Hiranuma
Eiji Yasui
Home Affairs
Heisuke Yanagawa
China Affairs Board
Akira Hazami
Yanagawa
Germany
Italy
Horishi Oshima
Fumimaro Konoye
Mairanuma
East Asia
Prince Konoye
Koichi Kido
Kenji Tomita
Tomita
Kozo Ohta
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