Italian Losses, Battles, and Moves Across Africa Fronts
British and Allied reports outline 210 855 tons of Italian shipping captured or scuttled since Italy's war entry. French and Italian forces clash atop Alpine terrain while Italian airstrikes hit Fayence and Red Sea ports. British Kenya frontier clashes yield captured soldiers, and Ethiopian veterans join Kenya forces as East Africa heats up.
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London
U.P
Italy
Reynolds Packard
Rome
High Command
Fayence
Nice
Port Sudan
Aden
Red Sea
Kenya
Moyale
Tunisia
Britain Charges Loss of French Industry For War Struggle
British sources say Nazi control of 75 to 80 percent of France’s steel and many war plants cripples Allied production. They note ammunition factories are largely in the south, while Britain concentrates on expeditions and defense volunteers. A new British expeditionary force arrives in France as the Dunkirk experience informs mobilization.
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France
United States
Flanders
Atlantic
Britain
England
Dunkerque
Spain Moves Troops Into Tangier Neutral Zone
Spain occupied Tangier's international neutral zone with two divisions and a destroyer to safeguard the city's neutrality. The action, reportedly under 1928 police powers, followed an agreement with France and was carried out without resistance. Diplomatic powers in Madrid notified, while the neutral commission faced difficulties amid wartime disruption and food shortages from interrupted sea traffic.
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Madrid
Tangier
Morocco
Foreign Ministry
Spain
London
Reuters
France
Seuta
Spanish
Britain
Gibraltar
International Commission
Turkey Plans Higher Taxes To Offset Slump in Receipts
Turkey considers raising taxes to compensate for reduced customs revenues. Government officials weigh broader measures to stabilize public finances amid declining trade income and fiscal pressure.
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Turkey
Tucson Attorney Bets Churchill On War Aid
Fred W. Fickett of Tucson wrote to Winston Churchill claiming 97 percent of Americans support the Allied cause. He received a reply from Downing Street through Churchill's secretary E M Watson acknowledging receipt of the letter.
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France
Fred W. Fickett
Tucson
Fickett
Winston Churchill
Germany
Downing Street
Whitehall
London
E. M. Watson
Churchill
WPA Funds Boost Refused by Senate
The Senate voted 25 to 51 against increasing WPA relief funds from 975,650,000 to 1,488,000,000 in the 1941 relief bill. Senator James E. Murray, D Montana, had urged the increase to allow WPA labor on defense-related projects.
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Washington
Senate
Works Projects Administration
James E. Murray
Mont
Congress Studies Draft Legislation Amid Emergency Prep
Washington June 14 A proposal to create immediate draft machinery for national emergencies while preserving Congress control to activate it is advancing in military and congressional circles. Proponents say it could shave a month from mobilization and ready 6,500 local boards, with 30 days to send the first draftees to camps, though the Army shows no urge to enact selective service now.
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Washington
Congress
Capitol Hill
Army
George C. Marshall
House Military Committee
Army and Navy
Stamp Plan Asked for Pima by Solon
Sen. Henry F. Ashurst urged Gov. Jones to extend the surplus commodity food stamp plan to Pima and Yuma counties. The program already operates in Maricopa, Pinal and Gila counties as relief clients receive surplus food.
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Phoenix
Henry F. Ashurst
Jones
Pima
Yuma
Arizona
Maricopa
Pinal
Gila
German forces enter Paris and drive retreat across France
The Paris fall marks a catastrophic blow to France with Maginot defenses collapsing and towns such as Montmedy Vitry Le Francois and Ridge 304 overrun. Britain sends reinforcements as Hitler vows to redraw borders while announcing a three day celebration and shifting to the campaign’s third phase.
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Alsace
Sedan
Montmedy
Luxembourg
Vitry-Le- Francois
Chalons
Verdun
Adolf Hitler
Paris
Roosevelt to coordinate science groups on defense aid
The Roosevelt administration plans a coordinative task force named by the president to harmonize the National Academy of Sciences the National Research Council and the Federal Bureau of Standards. The aim is to align research with national defense needs while denying any new embargo on scrap iron without congressional authorization. Meanwhile Allied shipping faced heavy losses with the Scotstown sunk and multiple transports damaged or sunk north of the Hebrides and off Le Havre. German aviation losses were fewer in comparison.
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Visory Committee For Aeronautics
Roosevelt
National Academy of Sciences
National Research Council
Federal Bureau of Standards
United States
Paul Reynaud
France
Reynaud
Atlantic
Congress
Saar Front
Maginot Line
High Command
Scotstown
The
Hebrides
le Havre
Chrome Queen of America Opens Chrome Trade Front
Seattle dispatch profiles Mrs. William Moroney of San Francisco as the self styled chrome queen who will deliver 25 000 tons of chrome to the government under an 843 600 contract from Kenai peninsula mine She plans production to start in six weeks with 80 workers and aims to finish within six months Her father supplied chrome in World War I and she won a 3200 congressional claim last year
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Seattle
William Moroney
San Francisco
America
Alaska
Kenai Peninsula
Congress
Russia
New Caledonia
Turkey
French Crisis Deepens as German Drive Bends The Front
Censored dispatch details German advances around Paris and behind the Maginot line. Refugee convoys flood Tours and Orleans while Paris streets lose rifles and barricades. Reynaud appeals to the United States urging aid and unity against Nazi Germany.
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Lotre
Tours
Orleans
Paris
Saint Dizier
Paris-Nancy
Maginot
U. S
Reynaud
Nazi Germany
France
America
Atlantic
Europe
Roosevelt
U S Protest Jap Bombings Of Chungking
Tokyo reports United States protest after intensified Japanese air raids on Chungking China. Ambassador Grew cited Hull remarks about threats to the U S embassy and other properties as foreign offices warned of danger to foreign interests.
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Tokyo
U.P
United States
Joseph C. Grew
Foreign Office
Chungking
China
Grew
Chiang Kai-Shek
Washington
Cordell Hull
Dutch East Indies
Netherlands
J. C. Pabst
Yangtze River
Japan Expands Strawberries Exports to Foreign Markets
Japan increases shipments of strawberries to overseas buyers, expanding trade with multiple countries. Government data show rising volumes and new export routes, signaling stronger agricultural export growth for the sector.
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Japan
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John P. McKnight
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