De Gaulle Challenged as War Fractures Stir Debate
The piece critiques De Gaulle amid wartime actions and leadership tensions with Allied figures. It argues his cancelation of Normandy liaison orders signals conceit and urges a clear stance from France on liberation plans and future governance. It references Churchill Roosevelt Stalin and a possible Washington meeting to resolve France's role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Gaulle
Hirohito
Japan
Hitler
Europe
China
London
France
Francois Coulet
Republic of Normandy
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
United Nations
Normandy
Washington
Retrospective look at 1932 budget debates and 1940s convention timing
The article reviews 1932 budget cuts urged by Bernard Baruch, critiques Hoover era commissions, and notes AFL calls to cut costs. It then analyzes why Democratic and Republican conventions in 1940 were scheduled for July, Roosevelt’s possible role, and wartime considerations, ending with satirical quips about politics and social topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Bernard M. Baruch
AFL
Advertising Club of
New York
James M. Beck
Congress
Cleveland
White House
Critics Question Roosevelt Refugee Plan and Immigration Rules
Westbrook Pegler questions the Roosevelt administration plan to bring 1,000 European refugees to the United States and confine them in an empty army camp. He argues current laws are liberal yet poorly enforced and warns that admitting refugees could lead to broader, irreversible changes in immigration policy and immigration rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P Westbrook Pegler
New York
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Earl Browder
Italy
Europe
Seance of Peace and Shifting World Alignments
The article riffs on past and future geopolitical alignments, noting 1934 lineups and unlikely coalitions. It envisions Italy, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, China, and others in shifting relations, and predicts future upheavals while joking about peace conference dynamics. It closes with a tongue in cheek note about June 1954 office hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Russia
Germany
Portugal
Luxembourg
Monaco
Siam
University of Chicago
France
America
England
China
Turkey
Dardanelles
Atlantic
Horn
Cape
King Features
Washington Medley of postwar shifts and diplomacy notes
A collection of brief items from Washington on Adlai Stevenson leaving the Navy to pursue Knox's Chicago Daily News, Allied naval actions in the Atlantic, Eric Johnston's Hollywood ambassador role, Pacific wartime schedules, Bernie Baruch's postwar views, Senator Happy Chandler's political chatter, GOP whispers on Dewey and UNRRA cuts, Latin American relations under Aranha, and other contemporaneous political commentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Adlai Stevenson
Navy
Knox
Chicago Daily News
Stevenson
Italy
King
Badoglio
Grover Cleveland
Adlai
Fdr
Forrestal
Atlantic
Channel
Tarawa
U. S
Alan Kirk
Hollywood
Eric Johnston
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Johnston
Warner Brothers
Eric
Pacific
FEA
Office of Economic Warfare
War
Japan
Tokyo
Osaka
Yokohama
Kobe
Burma
Baruch Simmers
Bernie Baruch
Bernie
Hob Caw Barohy
S. C
White House
Kilgore
Nhappy Chandler
Roosevelt
Mark Ethr
Louisville Courier-Journal Pit
War On Republican Front
Washington dispatch analyzes the 1940 GOP convention dynamics with Spangler’s supporters, Dewey’s likely nomination, Taft writing the platform, Vandenberg shaping the international plank, and Bricker’s delegate push amid intra party tensions. Harmony appears likelier for Republicans than the Democrats given current alignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Publican Party
Nator Vandenberg
Michigan
Taft
Brickerman
Vandenberg
Dewey
Bricker
Harrisburg
Ohio
New York
King Features Syndicate
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David Lawrence Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Chicago
Wallace
CIO
New Deal
Army
Armed Services
New England
Milwaukee Journal
Boston Globe
Planned Parenthood, Inc
Wyerest
Earson
Smith Hays
Chandler
Hays
GOP
Warren
Capitol Hill
Stassen
New York State
Russel Sprague
Sprague
Bill Hutcheson
AFL Carpenters’ Union
John L. Lewis
Illinois
Everett Dirksen
Buffalo
Mruk
Ed Jaeckle
Jaeckle
Bob Hannegan
Hannegan
Texas
Staten Island
Hernano Tavares
Latin America
Sumner Welles
Brazil
Rockefeller
Oswaldo Aranha
U.S.A
Paul Mahon
Spangler
Special Harmony Organization
Mackinac
Herbert Brownell
Ed Jeackel
New York State Committee
Spaingler
James P. Selvage
Willkie
Robert Taft
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