Roosevelt Warns On World War I Russia Contingency
The article discusses U S President Roosevelt labeling a potential German attack on Soviet Russia as a major strategic riddle of the era. It cites military estimates of Soviet manpower and equipment, questions of railway and road capacity, morale, and the Red Army buildup. It notes Soviet air force limitations and naval strength across multiple seas, with references to Stalin’s modernization and submarine counts.
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John H. Martin
Associated Press
Adolf “Hitler
Soviet
Russia
Warny
Red Army
Moscow
Hough
Nem
Red Air Force
Luftwaffe
Joseph Stalin
Red Rm
Shery
Tay
Iit
Baltic
Far East
Japan
Kvestia
U S Near Open Break With Axis Over Consular Moves
United States ready to set a deadline for Italian consular staff to leave the country amid a broader Axis retaliatory stance. Germany has ordered German consular staffs and three German agencies to quit by July 10, with Italy to follow if Rome acts in kind. Italy runs 49 consulates with 55 staff. closures and bans threaten Italian nationals and immigrants. The moves end diplomatic and consular presence in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, and occupied France.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Italy
Germany
State Department
Berlin
Rome
Reich
Newark
Detroit
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Belgium
Netherlands
Norway
Luxembourg
France
American Express Company
German Library of Information
German Railway Tourist Bureau
Transocean News Agency
Cochran Becomes First Woman Bomber Pilot to Fly Atlantic
London reports indicate Miss Jacqueline Cochran America’s ace bomber pilot arrived after delivering an American built Hud a bomber. She said the flight was incident free and hinted at future OSS duties. Her navigator Captain Grafe Carlisle assisted. Cochran, 32, in private life Mrs Floyd Odlum, earned the Harmon Trophy in 1940 and has long forecast women will take key air roles.
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London
Equeline Cochran
Engad
Atlantic
United States
Oss
Caprn Grafe Carlisle
Miss Cochran
Floyd Odlum
America
Givior
Aviatrix
Los Angeles
Iveland
Strike at Brass and Aluminum Plant Settled
The Defense Mediation Board announced a settlement of a labor dispute at the Bohn Aluminum and Brass Company in Detroit. About 4,600 workers were involved and the union sought a 10 cent raise. Details await a union meeting to ratify terms.
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Associated Press
Defense Mediation Board
Anse
Bohn Aluminum and Brass Company
Detroit
Pliant
Philadelphia
W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining and Molasses Company
Pennsylvania Sugar Company
Franklin Sugar Refining Company
AFL
CIO
United Mine Workers
Cio-Umw
San Francisco
Puget Sound
Great Lakes
McKeeseport
Apollo
Weather Outlook for Georgia South Carolina and Gulf Coast
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday for Georgia and South Carolina. Alabama and Northwest Florida see generally fair conditions tonight and Saturday. Coastal winds become gentle to moderate from the east and southeast along the region.
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Georgia
South Carolina
Alabama
Florida
Sinking of the Robin Moor prompts Roosevelt appeal to Congress
President Roosevelt urges Congress to condemn the German submarine sinking of the American ship Robin Moor on May 21 in the South Atlantic. He notes the vessel was on a voyage to South Africa, sunk in minutes after warning, with its nationality known and its passengers left adrift. He brands the act an international outlaw attack and calls for full reparations from Germany.
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United States
Germany
Robin Moor
Navy reports submarine overdue off Isles of Shoals
Portsmouth report states the old submarine O-9 is four hours overdue on a test dive in 370 feet of water near the Isles of Shoals. Rescue ship Falcon and divers rushed from Washington and New London as depth and danger raise concern after the Squalus tragedy two years earlier.
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Portsmouth
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Navy
Isles of Shoals
Falcon
John D. Wainwright
Grenadier
Trout
John’ J. Brown
Navy Yard
Washington
Admiral Edwards
New London
Ceith
Go Slow Warnings Hit Tire Buyers and Gas Power Users
Washington reports a nation wide go slow warning to tire buyers gas power users and electricity consumers in the southeast to ration rubber and energy as defense needs rise. Officials urge rubber stockpiles mainly from the East Indies and daylight saving time to aid hydroelectric production for aluminum while oil supply concerns prompt possible gasoline rationing and industry wide cooperation from 800 petroleum representatives. Rubber consumption to be cut to about 600000 tons in late 1941 from 817000 tons.
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Washington
East Indies
Federal Power Commission
America
OPM
Nazi Soviet Threats and Bluffs Reshape War Outlook
DeWitt Mackenzie writes from vacation through Fred Vanderschmidt on the impact of German Soviet threats and bluffing on war length and scope. The piece weighs scenarios from Soviet subservience to a stubborn Reds retreat, noting Britain’s potential opening for a western strike if Germany tires in the East.
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DeWitt Mackenzie
Fred Vanderschmidt
Nazi quarters speculate on rift with U S
Berlin sources speculated on a possible break in diplomatic relations with the United States as Roosevelt prepared a major message to Congress. He also imposed an oil export ban from the eastern seaboard except to Britain Egypt and the Western Hemisphere. London and Moscow oriented discussions on a German push against England and Soviet defenses, while RAF strikes targeted invasion ports and the Ruhr to disrupt German war output.
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Associated Press
Berlin
United States
Germany
Roosevelt
Congress
British Empire
Egypt
Washington
Rome
London
RAF
Ruhr
England
Russia
Lzvestia
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Joseph V. Stalin
Britain
Roosevelt brands Robin Moor sinking as piracy threat
President Roosevelt told Congress the Robin Moor was sunk by a German submarine in the South Atlantic on May 21. He warned the act aimed to drive American commerce from the seas and interrupt trade with friendly nations, signaling the United States may not yield on high seas freedom.
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Germany
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Moor
South Atlantic
Ozorio
Robin Moor
mid-Atlantic
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Reich
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Howie Rice
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Virgil Sanderlin
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