Vandenberg Shuns Commitments on World Security Talks
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan plans to ask President Roosevelt if any strings attach before joining eight American delegates to the San Francisco World Security Conference. He would go as an individual not as a GOP official, seeking freedom from prior commitments.
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Greeks Guard Push Into Former ELAS Areas
Athens reports the Greek National Guard with modern arms advancing into zones previously held by ELAS. ELAS fighters surrender their weapons at collection points. British units accompany the guard and will receive arms under the peace settlement terms. Residents give a warm reception according to Greek press.
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Workers Under 30 Freed for Draft at Newport Torpedo Station
The Newport Indiana torpedo station released all workers under 30 to their draft boards for induction. Brig. Gen. Herbert H. Dean, state director of Selective Service, announced the mutual agreement with naval authorities due to increased calls. Workers will be grouped by occupation for orderly call-up.
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Naval Torpedo Station
Herbert Ft. Dean
Selective Service
Naval
Regen
Peace Table Voting Power Stirs Latins
London readers discuss how neutrals and recently war engaged nations will be treated at the peace table and the world security conference. The debate centers on voting power for countries like Venezuela and Uruguay versus the major Allied powers and the proposed executive council.
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London
United Nations
Venezuela
Uruguay
United States
Britain
Russia
Executive Council
World Security League
San Francisco
Hitler
London Mirror
Berlin Faces Only Death Destruction and Hunger
Nazi Berlin under martial law fears from advancing Soviet armies. Propaganda stresses food shortages while civilians may be pressed into street fighting as police and summary courts mete out death for cowardice. Vatican nuncio relocates to Eichstadt signaling a move of government from Berlin.
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Berlin
Gregory K. Zhukov
Starshal Ivan S. Konev
Ukraine
Vatican
Eichstadt
Bavaria
Moscow
Nuernberg
Nazis Seek Ike Backed Inquiry Into Soviet Atrocities
A Nazi propaganda outlet urged General Eisenhower to dispatch six to ten officers or enlisted men to Hungary to interview civilian victims of Bolshevik forces. The Allied HQ declined comment noting Hungary is outside Eisenhower’s command and that the request arrived through nonmilitary channels.
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Hungary
Allied Supreme Headquarters
Berlin
Budapest
British Sub Porpoise Lost Presumed Lost
The submarine Porpoise, a British undersea craft that helped supply Malta during siege days, is overdue and presumed lost. It also served as an underwater freighter and minelayer and was credited with sinking 35 000 tons of enemy shipping.
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London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Guffey Claims Wallace Row Tests Democratic Unity
U S Senator Joseph F Guffey of Pennsylvania says the fight in Congress over Henry Wallace's confirmation as Commerce Secretary is one of the greatest tests the Democratic party has faced He warns a rejection would hurt the party and the nation and labels conservatives in Congress as part of a bi partisan bloc seeking to destroy the party The speech frames the Wallace controversy as a battle between liberal and conservative forces with broad national stakes.
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Commerce
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Ickes Bids For Postwar Power Job
Interior Secretary Ickes urged a national postwar power program turning wartime facilities to ocean to ocean conservation and development. He argued for regional, basin wide unified development spanning water, power, irrigation, navigation and flood control.
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Ickes
Roosevelt
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Tennesee Valley Authority
Interior Department
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David E. Lilienthal
TVA
New Deal Plan Aims for Massive River Basin Utilities
Ickes outlines an Interior Department program to use water resources for irrigation, deep water navigation, flood control, municipal supply, hydroelectric power, and industrial processing. He cites Bureau of Reclamation and Division of Power reports that power projects generated 13.747 billion kilowatt hours for war manufacture last year.
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Interior Department
Ickes
Bureau of Reclamation
Division of Power
U S Merchant Ship Sunk in Atlantic
The Navy announced the Steel Traveler, a medium sized United States merchant vessel, was sunk in the North Atlantic about mid December by enemy action. Survivors have been landed in the United States.
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U.S
Atlantic
Washington
Steel Traveler
United States
North Atlantic
Eisenhower to Head German Central Control Commission
Washington reports the Army and Navy Journal says General Dwight D. Eisenhower will likely chair the central control commission for Germany under the Yalta plan. The commission would oversee American British and Soviet zones from Berlin with France invited to join. Patterson named as American member of the Allied mission, no permanent postwar agency noted.
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Navy Journal
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Central Control Commission
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United States
Great Britain
Russia
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