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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1941
Page
2
Edward C. Wayne argues U S ships in the West Atlantic are targets of piracy and calls for Navy action against Axis raiders. The piece states the waters are outside declared war zones and urges a strong maritime response.
In a worldwide radio address President Roosevelt denounced German attacks on ships as piracy and ordered U S navy ships to shoot first at Axis submarines. He defended free oceanic trade, warned obstructionists, and cited the Greer Sessna and Steel Seafarer incidents as part of Hitler’s plan to control sea lanes and lands.
The piece notes Britain’s Spitzbergen occupation securing a northern base and coal, aiding Free French forces, with implications for Arctic supply routes. It also covers the New York Nazi spy trials, a wartime rail strike mediation by Roosevelt, and Nye versus Willkie on pro war propaganda, plus Nazi claims on Leningrad's siege.
U S quietly builds air strips at Freetown Sierra Leone and in Liberia and a submarine base there to replace battleships for Atlantic defense against a Dakar Nazi threat. Pan American develops Freetown airdrome. Firestone aids Liberian base project.
The article recalls U S army camps named for military figures such as Camp Perry in Ohio for Oliver Hazard Perry, Camp Dodge for Henry Dodge, Camp Lincoln for Abraham Lincoln, and Camp Bowie for James Bowie, linking training sites to American history and leadership. It also notes production and defense planning amid impending lend-lease funding and a daily White House rhythm.
In Tokyo the press signals a softening stance toward U S foreign policy. In Paris the cigarette ration drops from 180 to 120 per month while many American smokers consume 20 to 40 a day. Paris also caps Jewish doctors and lawyers at 2 percent.
The army eats canned vegetables forming a stack nearly 9 000 miles tall according to the agriculture department. Secretary Cordell Hull receives an apology from Japanese ambassador Kichisaburo No mura who took Hulls hat by mistake. The Institute for World Organization meets at American University with many League of Nations figures seeking lessons to rebuild a postwar world organization.
The article explains historical roots of military terms. It links company to bread sharing in French and Latin, regiment to a unit under an officer, brigade to a crew, corps to a body, division as part of an army, platoon as a ball of men, squad as a square of men, and battalion as a body of troops in formation.
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