Argentina Still Playing the Axis Game Says US Watcher
A US observer says the new Ramirez government in Argentina has suppressed liberal groups and anti Axis sentiment while allowing coded Axis messages. Despite public support for democracy and UN aims, authorities have dissolved pro Allied and liberal organizations and closed outlets like Accion Argentina and La France Nouvelle. The gap with the United Nations widens as authorities label liberalism as communism.
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Argentina
United Nati States
Ons
Pedro Ramirez
Castillo
Axia
Americas
House of Deputies
United Nations
Ramirez
Segundo Storni
Vinence
Jorge A Santamarina
Germany
Japan
Argentine Federation of Labor
Federation
Accion Argentina
de Gaullist
la France Nouvelle
Petein
Junta de la Victoria
Britain
Russia
Triumphs of Science Radio Enjoyment and Quiet Air Time
A playful reflection on a radio show experience noting absence of singing adverts and round table issues. The writer lauds a calmer program devoid of imperatives and expert lecturing, appreciating smoother pacing, fewer commercials, and less sensational guidance. Edith, radio form, and everyday life are lightly touched.
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Edith
Missing Morning Radio Hosts Delight and Dramas
A reader shares mixed feelings about a radio play and the morning announcers. The piece notes Elspeth’s sacrifice for an aspiring surgeon and contrasts the dramatic tone of early broadcasts with the quiet, reflective silence after a science experiment shows how certain devices can switch off as well as on.
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Elspeth
Dr. Go
Paul Revere
Postwar demobilization plan eyed as orderly transition
A President backed committee proposes a coordinated postwar readjustment plan with federal leadership and close cooperation with business and labor. It stresses reemployment for veterans, peacetime industry placement for war workers, and minimal disruption, while warning against mismanagement and partisan misuse of big programs.
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Roosevelt
Plaa
Burton
Radcliffe
America
Birthday Greeting for WAVES Marks First Year
The President praised the WAVES on the first anniversary of the organization noting women freeing sailors for combat roles. The Troy Record congratulates the servicewomen and supports the move beyond traditional naval norms despite earlier opposition.
WAVES and WACS Prove Value of Women in Service
The text celebrates rapid WAVES recruitment and predicts 91,000 women, noting the president’s praise for their first year. It argues WAVES and WACS have answered questions about women in the Army and Navy, upholding traditions while providing incalculable service to the nation.
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WACS
WAVES
Army
Navy
Indictments for Wildcat Coal Strikes Face Federal Case
Attorney General Francis Biddle announced indictments by a federal grand jury in Pittsburg against thirty leaders of recent wildcat coal mine stoppages in southwestern Pennsylvania. The charges allege conspiracy to interfere with production and cover strikes beginning June 26, after the Smith Connally Act became law.
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Washington
Francis Biddle
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers of America
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Congress
John S. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Wildcat
United Mine Workers’ Policy Committee
Lewis
Vansittart diagnosis on Germany and the need for free truth
The Baltimore Sun weighs Lord Vansittart's view that Germany both caused and armed for war, while judging proposals to disarm culture and education as potentially inappropriate. It favors preventing conquest but doubts censorship as a cure and sides with Loyola and St Johns educators that truth must be free.
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Lord Vansittart
Germany
Hitler
Sun
Richard Rapier Stokes
Labor M. P
England
Vansittart
Edward J. Bunn
Loyola
Stringfellow Barr
St. John’s College
Annapolis
Italy
Russia
Balkans
Europe
Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalingrad
War time letters and civilian war garden note.
A collection of Letters to the Record includes views on preserving anonymity, supporting sports during wartime for morale and fundraising, critiques of American Fascism, and a citizen’s reflection on a war garden started by local children, praising practical patriotism and community sharing.
OWI Broadcast Mixup Spurs Senate Debate on Voice of America
The piece critiques the Office of War Information handling of The Voice of America short wave broadcasts. It notes a Sunday slip calling the Italian government names and questions who writes the government's foreign propaganda. It cites conflict among OWI, OSS, Sherwood, and Roosevelt, with State and War Departments urged to supervise and resolve policy disputes.
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Washington
Voice of America
OWI
Congress
OWT
War Departments
William J. Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
Robert Sherwood
Roosevelt
Elmer Davis
Sherwood
Department of State
Hull
United States
New York
War Department
Italy
Senate
Herr Goebbels
Office of War Information
Rome
Eugene Allessandroni
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
the Sons of Italy
Patriotic Sons of Italy
Roosevelt Comment Sparks Willkie Dewey Rivalry
President Roosevelt praises Willkie as a capable leader while comparing Dewey and MacArthur. The piece notes Dewey’s narrow assessment and frames Russian front dynamics and Allied prospects in WWII, citing figures and wartime policy concerns across Europe and domestic issues such as price rollbacks in company stores.
We Planned It That Way Critique by Frank Knox
Frank Knox, then Navy Secretary, argues in his 1938 book that New Deal propaganda services, funded by taxpayers, glorified administration policies and punished dissent. He compares the propaganda machine to Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin and claims widespread state reporting on citizen opposition.
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Washington
Tom Dewey
Roosevelt
New York
Capitol Hill
Willkie
White House
General MacArthur
Philadelphia
Chicago
Dewey
Mr. Roosevelt
Russia
Frank Knox
Knox
Navy
Mussolini
Hitler
Stalin
Congressional Committee For
Internal Revenue
Cili
Lidice Pronunciation Challenge After Nazi Destruction Echoes
Reader memory article recalls June 10 1942 Nazi destruction of Lidice and asks why Americans mispronounce the village name. Notes official guidance from the Czechoslovak Legation, spelling LEE-dit-seh and contrasting Italian mispronunciations heard on network broadcasts.
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Lids
Reinhardt Heydrich
Lidice
Warsaw
Nanking
Pearl Harbor
Bataan
Corregidor
Stalingrad
Life
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Millay
Washington
Vidice
Lee-Cee-Chay
Leg
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Howie Pollet
Joel DiMaggio
Wallace
Detroit
A. K
Johnsonville, N
Allen Stevens
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Merry
Drew Pearson
Benito Mussolini
R. J.thomas
United Automobile Workers
Otto
Felix
Procope
Finland
H.C. L
OPA
John A. Fath
CPA
Fath
Millville
N. J
Leon Henderson
IlIenderson
Henderson
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