North Africa Drive Opens and Global War Tensions Rise
British forces launch a bold second front in Libya, enveloping Tobruk and trapping German and Italian units in a Tobruk triangle. Rostov on the Don is claimed by Berlin as Russian advances resume, while Moscow reports renewed pressure on Mozhaisk. Tokyo faces pressure as ABCD talks unfold and Pacific navy strength shifts. Back home, John L. Lewis agrees to binding arbitration ending the coal strike, with steel executives and the president in a tense balance of power.
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North
Africa
Libya
Hitler
Royal Air Force
Germany
Tobruk
Bardia
Mediterranean
U. S
Canada
North Africa
Italy
Churchill
Tobruk Triangle
Sicily
Otters
Britain
Maly
Tripoli
Russia
Rostov
Berlin
Don River
Moscow
Mozhaisk
State Department
ABCD
Japan
Pacific
Tokyo
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
Lewis
Lewis Hand
Mediation Board
John R. Steelman
Conciliation Service
Department of Labor
Mr. Lewis
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel
Dr. Steelman
Mr. Fairless
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel
Union Policy Committee
Ofé 200
United States
Petain in talks amid Axis option for France
Reports from Rome say Marshal Petain heads to a conference with Hitler and Mussolini as France faces a pivotal choice on Axis alignment. Berlin describes alien labor aiding war plants, while Soviet dispatches outline large-scale evacuation of factory equipment from occupied areas as Russia’s war effort continues.
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Marshal Petain
Vichy
Firet
Hitler
Mussolini
Axis
Rome Radio
France
Africa
Marshal Weygand
Germany
Petain
Washington
North Africa
Russia
Berlin
Walter Kerr
Kuibyshev
A. Levsky
Kerr
Archangel
Soviet Union
America
Britain
Washingtons Little Business on Defense Grievances
A confidential White House memo by Lowell Meilett criticizes OPM and the war department over defense contracts. It argues small firms are shut out by big competitors, faced with delays, and denied equitable shares, while SPAB and the distribution division show little progress. Guy Holcomb in the justice department defends small business interests and has secured contracts and access for small firms. The piece also notes Hitler’s approach toward Turkey and ongoing wartime shifts, ending with a curious aside about Bill Bullitt and a Defense hiring forecast for fall 1942.
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Washington, D. C
Lowell Meilett
White House
OPM
War Department
Mellett
Little Business
Defense Administration
Tims
Army
SPAB
Washington
Justice Department
Thurman Arnold
Guy Holcomb
Atlanta
Holcomb
Hitler
Turkey
Vichy
Russia
Caucasus
Mosul
Euphrates Valley
Aegean
Balkan
Danube
Middle East
Wavell
India
Iran
Iraq
Palestine
Europe
Police lineup shows 809 victims ready to identify
In Chicago a thousand robbery victims faced two prisoners in a police station lineup and officers said 809 were prepared to give positive identifications. In Bermuda an emergency call sought infantile paralysis serum and American naval planes were to deliver it.
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Chicago
Bermuda
United States
Haslett and Gerrero Women Leaders Highlight Social Responsibility
Foreign women leaders Miss Caroline Haslett of Britain and Senora Ana Ross de Martinez Gerrero of Argentina visit New York and Washington to stress women’s social responsibility and democratic unity. Haslett, engineer and adviser, will address American defense mobilization. Gerrero, wife of a cattleman, champions Western Hemisphere solidarity against totalitarianism.
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Out For Equality
Aeuter Ag
Caroline Haslett
Great Britain
Ana Ross
de Martinez Gerrero
Argentina
Haslett
Ministry of Labor
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Montclair
N. J
Women's Engineering Society
Electrical Association of Women
Woman Engineer
Senora de Martinez Gerrero
Miss Haslett
Washington
Inter- American Commission of Women
Notes from a World of Nonsense and Gossip
A collage of entertainment quips and observations on Army morale public sentiment and cultural columns. It notes Gen Marshell Army Chief of Staff remarks on morale, Clark Gable at a Red Cross show, theatre critiques, Writer profiles and a midtown vignette about a generous Canadian soldier and a Hamburger Heaven cashier interaction. It recalls Ed Howe and H L Mencken memoirs and lists witty quotes from Smith Barrymore Galsworthy Hecht Curtis Miller and Olin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Marshell
Army
Clark Gable
Red Cross
Duncan McMartin
Pete Smith
John Barrymore
John Galsworthy
Ben Hecht
Elizabeth Curtis
Olin Miller
How to Get Defense Job Shown by New Booklet
A 32 page booklet details over 100 defense job types in demand across machine shop aircraft shipbuilding and metal work. It outlines training and registration options age requirements and where to sign up to pursue earn while you learn courses for merchant marine officers.
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Merchant Marine
Defense
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Edward C. Wayne
Western Newspaper Union
Far East
Kurusy
Hull
Winston Churchill
Emperor Hirohito
Henri Petain
Bill Bullitt
Ann Corio
Hartford
Conn
Bullitt
la Corio
Commerce Department
Lemuel F. 1
Consolidated Features
ARTON
York
Paul van Zeeland
Belgium
New York
International Labor Organization
Poland
Czecho- Slovakia
Jugoslavia
Greece
M. van Zeeland
Princeton University
Bank For International Settlements
Soignes
Louvain
Princeton
Bank of Belgium
University of
James Young
China
Young
Clarke Robinson
Harold R. Stark
World Digest
Naval Operations
Douglas M. Stewart
Boston
Collier
Selwyn James
Gerald Campbell
Trinidad
James
Sol Bloom
Campbell
Ed Howe
Atchison, Kansas
Gene
H. L. Mencken
Baltimore
Mencken
Sixth Avenue
New York City
Anton
Prince Albert
Adv
Montrate
Sprdey Hotel
Colfes
Hurdle and Holter
Wotel Aim Montrose
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