Mobile Forces Screen Move Of British To Guard Egypt
Light mobile forces of Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie's eighth army screened hurried dispositions for the defense of Egypt. Two Axis columns veered west after engaging about 25 miles from Bardia. Rommel's main forces re equipped for a possible assault on Tobruk as Tobruk's fortifications would be reduced to base for autumn Nile drive.
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Libya
Cuba And U S Sign Pact To Fight Subs
The United States and Cuba reach an agreement to use Cuban facilities for training aviation personnel and anti submarine operations. Work starts immediately on the installations as U S warships report ongoing sinkings in the western Atlantic with several nations affected and multiple crew losses.
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Comercio
Government Leader In Commons Calls For Big March Right To Berlin
Sir Stafford Cripps urged Allied invasion of western Europe with aim to reach Berlin. He spoke at a British Russian demonstration, warning that success hinges on combined US Britain and Soviet power and that delays could weaken the Allied cause.
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Winston Churchill
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Great Britain
Soviet Union
Russians Keep Nazis Guessing On New Drive
Moscow reports describe a tense battle across Smolensk and Crimean Sevastopol with Russian massed infantry and tanks probing toward Smolensk, while German forces press in Sevastopol. The duplicity claim and several repulsed German assaults frame the day’s fighting as reinforcements rotate to battle zones.
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Vyazma
Rzhev
Erich von Mannstein
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Soviet Information Bureau
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Gandhi urged resistance to Axis powers in India letter
Gandhi told Chiang Kai-Shek he favored effective resistance to Japan and Axis powers and aid to China if India gains independence. British observers see a shift from nonviolence. American circles doubt any major change.
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India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Chiang Kai-Shek
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China
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Im.mon
All-India Congress Party
Price Administrator H Henderson Offer to Resign for Subsidy Hopes
Washington June 20 price administrator Leon Henderson said he would resign if needed to win congressional enactment of subsidies to support price ceilings. He urged subsidies to back March level ceilings and ease burden on consumers and retailers. He warned major threats remain in Roosevelt anti inflation program including farm price controls wage stabilization and inflationary tax actions. He predicted he would become the most unpopular man in the country yet said he is making progress.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Congress
Roosevelt
War Taxes Plan Thrown Out By Committee
The house Ways and Means Committee formally killed the proposed war sales tax and backed the treasury's pay as you earn plan for withholding individual income tax starting Jan 1. The panel refused a general sales tax and outlined 10 percent payroll withholdings on income above personal exemptions, split between 1942 and 1943 obligations with quarterly 1942 installments due in 1943 and final payment by March 15, 1944.
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DNC
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Doughton
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Allied Bombers Hit 10000-ton Japanese Transport at Rabaul
Allied bombers scored three direct hits on a 10,000 ton Japanese transport at Rabaul New Britain and damaged harbor ships. They also destroyed several Japanese bombers on the ground at the airdrome and damaged buildings. Seven Zero fighters and two seaplanes attacked but loss fell to the defenders with one down and another probably destroyed. Lieutenant Paul G Brown of Oak Park Illinois said he destroyed three Japanese planes in his first month of action.
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New Guinea
U S Planes Burn Ploesti Oil Field in Romanian Raid
Ankara reports United States Army Air Corps planes burned the Ploesti oil fields in a raid on June 12. Fires raged two days, smoke obscured the area, and telephonic service was disrupted for days. Travelers said two large bombers circled Bucharest for over an hour during the operation.
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Romania
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Germany
Carl
English Ask Probe Of Libya Debacle
The Times calls Libya a potential second front while debates rise for a parliamentary probe into British reverses led by Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie's desert army. Critics blame insufficient foresight, armor, and tactical use, warning Rommel may renew his push toward Egypt and the Suez.
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Libya
Times
Neil M. Ritchie
Egypt
Mediterranean
Roosevelt
Churchill
Middle East
Erwin Rommel
Suez
The
Daily Mail
Eighth Army
Rommel
Propaganda Office Created by Roosevelt Named Director
After six months of chaos in information and propaganda efforts the President established an office of war information. Elmer Davis is named director and praised as a skilled journalist and analyst of news. The piece notes cabinet rank questions and cites officials who steer wartime policy.
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William L. Shirer
Washington
Roosevelt
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Mr. Davis
London
Berlin
Donald Nelson
Leon Henderson
Milo Perkins
Paul McNutt
Harry Hopkins
British Bomb Raid Through Storm Targets Emden Osnabruck
British long range bombers estimated up to 300 fighters fought through heavy weather to strike Emden and Osnabruck, main rail hub in northwestern Germany. They reported some damage, with nine planes missing. Berlin said only slight damage to residential areas and one plane down.
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U.P
Emden
Osnabruck
Holland
Ems River
Germany
Ruhr
Rhineland
Berlin
A. T. Harris
Bomber Command
Amateur Radio Stations Must Be Registered
The Federal Communications Commission ordered registration of all radio transmitters held by amateur licensees or others by August 25. Registrants must affix the registration certificate to the transmitter. unregistered devices with no valid certificate may be seized by the commission.
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Washington
UPR
Federal Communications Commission
Germs Ask French For Merchant Ships
London June 20 Germans urgently requested Pierre Laval to cede 1 000 000 tons of French merchant ships in the Mediterranean Reuters News agency reported under a French frontier dateline A Daily Sketch columnist claimed Vichy had leased 1 009 000 tons of shipping to the Axis for the Mediterranean and Black Sea Axis sailors would man the ships France retains about 500 000 tons for own trade to North Africa and other colonies about 600 000 tons are in Allied hands
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Pierre Laval
Mediterranean
Reuters
Daily Sketch
Vichy
Black Sea
France
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