More Aid to Great Britain Faces Congress Debates
Weekly News Analysis outlines how opening sessions of Congress may shape further aid to Britain. Forecasts pressure on Italy and notes heavy British shipping losses as wartime measures intensify. Released by Western Newspaper Union.
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Great Britain
Congress
Italy
Unir
Albania
Egypt
Axis
Washington
England
Britain
London
New Congress Faces Urgent Defense Push and War Risk
Washington mood dark as new Congress weighs mobilization. Knudsen Hillman Stimser Hull push for immediate all-out arms production and government authority. The Roosevelt board will crack down while Italy battles Greece and Libya.
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Congress
Washington
Britain
Hitler
Defense
William Knudsen
Stimser
Hull
Roosevelt
National Advisory Defense Council
Knudgen
Sidney Hillman
John L. Lewis
War
Stimson
Navy
Knox
Notable World News and Crop Outlook Highlighted
Honor William Allen White receives the Churchman's award for goodwill. Admiral Leahy sails to Lisbon to assume post as U.S. ambassador to France. Gene Tunney joins navy as lieutenant commander and physical instructor. Helsinki bids farewell to Kyosti Kallio as he dies at the station. Nazi spokesman criticizes U.S. aid to Britain while Britain faces shipping strains. Mussolini echoes Berlin policy. Agriculture reports 1941 wheat crop above ten year average at 633 million bushels. hog prices expected to rise 16 to 32 percent. Kidnapping extortion target of Count Mare de Tristan family noted. Nobel Prize for 1940 will not be awarded. Norway also skipping prize again.
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William Allen White
Emporia
Kan
Journal of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
William D. Leahy
U.S
France
High Seas
U. S. S. Tuscaloosa
Lisbon
Spain
Gene Tunney
Helsinki
Kyosti Kallio
Baron Mannerheim
Finland
United States
Britain
Germany
Reich
Ronald Cross
England
Berlin
America
Mussolini
Virginia Gayda
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Mare de Tristan
Norway
Shopping-Lady Décies Recalls Paris Coat Thief Tale
Elizabeth Drexel of Philadelphia wife of Social Leader Harry Lehr, once living in Paris, recalls shopping in occupied Paris. A uniformed man grabbed a coat, paid for it saying it was for his wife. she left, realizing the shopper was General Goering.
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Lady Decies
Elizabeth Drexel
Philadelphia
Harry Lehr
Paris
Lady Décies
General Goering
Alabama Plan Promises Soil Gains Under AAA Reform
The Alabama Plan within AAA promotes balanced farming over five years. Farmers must grow erosion resistant crops, terrace sloped land, and establish permanent soil conserving crops and pastures to avoid deductions. The plan standardizes conservation, encourages farmer groups to share equipment, and aims to boost soil productivity nationwide.
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Union
Washington
Alabama
Triple A
Department of Agriculture
AAA
Roosevelt yarn and Albanian allies in wartime dispatches
The piece records Gov. John Moses grinning at White House talks on defense plants for North Dakota and a Roosevelt anecdote about naming a destroyer Israel and Moses. It highlights Albanian mountaineers aiding Greek forces, blitzkrieg widows of American diplomats, and State Department woes amid Greece aid requests and migrant job statistics.
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North Dakota
John Moses
White House
Moses
Roosevelt Sina
Roosevelt
Wilson
Israel
U. S
Murphy
O’reilly
Washington
Albania
Royal Air Force
Europe
Mussolini
State Department
Blitzkrieg
Warsaw
Berlin
Copenhagen
Oslo
Brussels
Hague
Moscow
Helsinki
Far East
Foreign Service
Greece
Josephus Daniels
Mexico
House Migrant Investigating Committee
Japan
United States
Farm Credit Loans Rise Again Across First Nine Months
Farm Credit administration reports $460,000,000 in financing during the first nine months of 1940, up from $416,000,000 in the same period of 1939. Officials anticipate further increases.
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Farm Credit Washington
Farm Credit Administration
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Munich
Czechoslovakia
Lord Lothian
Foreign Ministry
Anthony Eden
Africa
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Duce
Libya
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Adriatic
Taranto
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Aguinaldo
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War Department
Fred J. Mueller
B. B. McMahon
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