-;Ce_~
/\Tonight brings a lively story of espionage and
Argentina.
The British Gov
e
rnment has notified
Buenos Aires of the arrest of an Argentine Consular
official on the charge that he is -- an
enemy
agent --
a spy.
This Argentine diplomatic official
is naaed
~
Osaar Alberto Helmuth.
Helmuth doesn't sound so
Ntap
A.
Spanish.
Though -- of course, you may find Geraan-
sounding names
■oat
anywhere.
(ae
,oaa arrnhi
•iliil::w-
what, sJr'a
.-a
bi•
•e:, \s1iill P!ttrope
L
i .
d
t
Q
a
diplo ■ at1o
11ee1oa The
British
br»s
erreBted
bi ■
as
-t==
11
P3
•1
The latest on the story is that the Argentine
'
government has dismissed
~smar
Alberto Helmuth
from
its consular service, and the Buenos Aires authorities,
as a result of the British charges, h~rstart~d an
A
inv
as
tig
a
tion of a Nazi
spy
ring in Argentina.
Some
arrests,
we
a~
eltold, have already
be
en made.
~••• }(ews
fro■
South America tells of orders
issued by Bitler -- orders to break the Pan American
front.
A newspaper
at Montevideo today published
a photostatic copy of a letter said to be written by
a German
Embassy
Official
i,n
Buenos Aires, a letter
quoting Hitler's
command
to
smash Pan American
solidarity. The
smashing --
to be done by people
of
German
ancestry.
Bitler is quoted as telling
the ■
that they
must
consider themselves -- •tront
line
Ger■ an
soldiers.f~ghting against the
enemy•.
Here's
another
story indicating
tb~t
the
-
---
German Gene
r
als
may
toss
out their
Fuehrer,t: •.::
this
one
~
g,iven on the
authority
of
one of the top Nazi
big-wigs
Eric Ioch, German
Commissioner
for
the
~~
Ukraine.
A
story
Afroa
s
.
witzerland
asserts
that th is
big-time Razi wrote a letter to friends in which he
charged
that
the
German
Geneials
intend to
overthro•
Bitler and come to terms
with
the Allies.
lbat is
~ F u e h r e r
doing
about
it? Nothing,
sa;rs the
letter and
explains
that
Bitler
can't
kick
the
Generals
out,
because
he's
got
to
have them
to
command the
German
Army.
ROS§..!!_
The latest from Russi
a
should certainly
cramp
the style of those humorists who like to manufacture
comedy out of long Russian names.
I myself have
been
guilty of a bit of levity now and then in t
a
lking
about
such pla
c
es as
Dnepropetrovsk.
But all
Russian
~
place names are
1.
ot long;
andAaloael\
comes
a Moscow
bulletin giving us one of the shortest - but it's just
as unpronouncible.
It is spelled:
U-g-a,
which I suppos
is pronounced
Uga.
Anyway, Stalin announced today
_/)_:._
that the Red Army has cap
'
tured
llga,
which is ':n
~
~ ~ o Y \ . - t & . e
,,._
/\-Leningrad front.
Aside
fro ■
the pronunciation involved, the
news indicates that Soviet troops, having captured
Novgorod, are now closing in behind an area of the most
powerful fortificatio1
~
.(This is
~
best ;
,A.
a:Mt/\
th
lin
~
has been v
i
rtually encircle,
'
with
LENIN
-----
From Soviet Ru sia tonight comes a statement
on the subject of a dead body. There might seea to be
altogether too many of these in Russia, but the
-
one
..
in question is -- Lenin, the founder and apostle of
Bolshevism. (Tweety years aaYe peeeea ei&ee ~he dea~a~
G.f
LeDia, tae greatest ef all t>he protagonists of-,
Kiae4d~R~e~v~onl~ant~iho~nr.-.--..JTT-e-et,~his embalmed body is said to be
tf
lifelike to an amazing degree.
The Moscow newspaper
,
I
IZVESTA tells how a commission twenty years ago was
I'
assigned to preserve Lenin's body for posterity.
And today that same commission has made an examination,
twenty years later.
And here's one phrase of the
report: •It looks as if Lenin were sleeping.•
cf
This masterpiece of the embalming art as exhibited
in
oscow was a shrine of Soviet Bolshevism.
But,
with the coming war Lenin's body was removed from
~~~-vt-~~~
RedSquar~and taken to some undis~:l~.~- That
place is still kept
a
secret, but some~al:been
LERIR - 2
--------
~
~
to behold Lenin in his temporary place of
entombment.
Amon
these
--
W.
Averill Harriman,
United States
Ambassador to Russia.
ITALY
-----
In Italy, British troops of the Fifth Army made
new
gains
today, driving forward
from
the captured
town
of Minturno. The Nazis
made
counter-attacks, but these
~
~approaching the hi toric Appian
famous
of
all the roads ~t~o~R~o~•~e~·:.....------------
BOMBING
------
The bombing of the Nazi Fortress Europa went on
all day, after it had been going on all night. The
around-the-clock offensive began at seven
P.11.
last
erening,
when R.A.F. night bo~bers hit Berlin with one
of the most tremendous of air blows.
Twenty-five
hundred tons of bombs smashed down on Berlin, and the
city was left with tempests of flames, fires that could
be seen a hundred and fifty miles
away.
Thirty-five
R.~.F.
bombers were lost
i.n
the o p e r a t i o n s / \ ~
not only Berlin but othe~ points in Germany.
Where the
R.
A.
F.
night
_
raiders left off last
night, the American daylight bombers picked up today,
with
fleets of Flying Fortresses and Liberators
smashing the French invasion coast. They dropped enough
bombs to bring the twenty-four hour total up to five
tho us and tons.
FOLLOW BOMBING
_______
..,
____ _
--
Tonight the Germans tried to hit b
a
ck
with
I\
staged
the most ambitious raid they hav~•*•*•~ against
Britain in a long
time.
London had a ninety-minute
alert, and high explosive was dropped in a number
Anti-aircraft fire in London was visible for
t
w
enty
miles,
and eight German planes
were shol. down.
And the latest
Germany is being bombed
again
tonight.
A dispatch
from London tells of a fore~ of R.A.F. bombers so
big that it took a whole hour for the squadron to pass
over a given
p
oint.
They flew over Naziland for
another ni
g
ht raid -- continuing the air action that
began at seven o'clock Qf the evenin
g
of yesterday.
PACIFIC
------
Twelve for the American subs~- with the Navy
Department in Washington announcing today that United
States undersea craft have sent to the bottoa
The Jap ships des
•
troyed
were
nine freighter
and a large tanker, W,nd these, according
to calculations raise the Jap ship losses since Pearl
Harbor to above the one thousand point.
All of
which
adds point to
a
statement that Tojo
made
today -
his admi•sion t
t American attacks
were
cutting heavily
into Japanese
And British submarines have entered the sea
campaign in the Orient.
This is disclosed in the
news
of the sinking of a Japanese cruiser by a British sub.
It appened in old imperial British waters, the
northern approaches of the Straits
of Malacca, the
area of Singapore.
And
~he
Pacific
news goee oa
wi~h bidlnga
e,,I,
I
PACIFIC - 2
--------
-
-
A regular Uarco Polo thriller of the submarine
service comes in a story told by a traveler from
$
northern China, wh6 st te that a United States submarine
A.
,-.t-~
members of its crew ashore at
Rewchwang
in the
Gulf of Liaotung.
To elucidate what that means, a
n1p of China
will show
that
Rewchwang is
on the coast
of
southwestern Kanchuriaj
~
That to reach it • - -
4
.
,A
United States submarine would have had to journey
through the Yellow Sea, which is like a Japanese
tx
lake,
~hrough Iorea
Bay,
through thl! Strait opposite the
great Jap stronghold of Port Arthur, and across the
·
Gulf of Chihli and thence into the Gulf of Liaotung.
A imply fabulous adventure into the heart
of Japanese-controlled
waters
for an American submarine.
~
But,
so.
the story
says,
the sub put men ashore
A.
ne
R
r Newchwang.
Why?
To buy some fish.
I
the tale
food.
be true, the submarine
w
as des
p
erately short of fresh
A
.f!QlllQ -
3
And some daredevil undersea ski
p
per, on a voyage
~~
through
t:a
Jap waters,)ea
L1k9'L~entureeome meana
'1-
1--provid~hia men with a fiah-fr7.
---o-----
And the Pacific
news
goes o
u
with
tidings of
the war in the air - familia~ tidings.
The
Marshall
I
s
lands hit again -- and repeatedly.
The
Bavy
announces four more raids against that archipelago.
Raids
which
have been officially characterized as -
•softening up.•
JAP LONGEVITT
------------
The J,ps today m
a
de an announcement that
has a biting tone of irony. T u k y ~ " that
Lieutenant General Ienji
Muro, seventy-four years
old, has been made the head of a Japanese organization
called -- "The Association for the Encouragement of
Longevity.•
The idea is to prolong the average life
of the Japanese to one hundred years.
I•
To which the
respond.1 --
ech~llll••li•xll~
that) in their war with the United
'
Yu)
States, the Japs sure do need an association to
A
p
rolong longevity.
~~
The Senate;l.t:bta
idti!:
lRljt
pas ed the tax bill -
two billion, t o hundred ana seventy-five million,
six hundred thousand dollars. This
ta
in open defiance
of the
President,
~ho has made repeated demands for
taxation to the tune of at
l
east ten and a half billions
four times that much. ~he Senate bill provides for no
increase of income tax - ~ut it does cu
income tax credit. And it freezes the Social Securiti
Tax, maintains t~e present rate - instead of doubling it
Both of these features are opposed by the White Bouse.
J2~M
OCRAT
f
a
rm bl
oc s
ecti
,
n
of D
e
moc
r
t
ic
leaders
t
o
ay
un
a
ni
n
ously
e
n
d
or
s
ed P
r
e
s
ident
R
oo
se
v lt fo
r
a fourth t
e
rm.
In
i
hin
g
ton the Democr
a
tic N
a
ti
o
nal Co
m
mitt
e
e
i
s
sch
ed
uled to me
e
t tomorrow, to sel
e
ct
a
city for the
D
emo
c
ratic N
a
tional Conventi
o
n. Chicago is to be the
-
~~
-~
l , \ J ~ ~ .
pl
ac
e, u~less there'
s
a hitchA
~na
tne eemmittee is
Cli.ai
~
aan
P1'-~tm ster
Gene al
a~ker; and
it
see ■e
al1aost: certain
that;- Rohal't Hannigan ~f lliss.o
.
ur,i will:.
be
cho ■ eQ
to sueeeed him.
In adv
a
nce of tomorrow'
s
formal sessi n, a
:,_3
meeting o~Deaocratic leaders from thirteen farming
wt
st tes in the Midwest w
a
s called today. The
purpose
,~•~••~was
to protest against some of the farm
p
olicies of the Administration -- with bl
a
sts against
Secretary o
f
Agricul
t
ure
Wickard md the Gov
e
rnor
of the Farm Credit Administration, A.G. Bl
a
c
k
.
D
emocr
a
tic leaders from the rural Midwe
s
t don't like
..
the way they've beenhandling things. And, it has been
DE
'
OCRA
T
-
2
------
----
---
widely
st
a
t
ed
th
a
t
the
meeting
would
fire
a bl
a
st
a
g&
inst Presidential
a visors Barry Hopkins
nd
David
Niles -- though this was denied.
Ho
e
ver
muc:.h
the rural
Midwest
)
direct their ire at the WhiteNouse itself •
.
's
Anyway
the twenty-three Democratic leaders
from the thirte n
Midwestern
states took a vote today
on the subject of a fourth term -- and endorsed it
unanimously.
Tod
ay p
r
sidential advi
or Harry Hopkins
fo
m
lly
res
a
ted
hi
s
denial.
io
I
hu r:aso
..,f
the~
Ap
p
aring before
a
ashington
gran
d
j
ry, Hop
in
te
tifie that he never
w
rote
th
/letter,
hich
has him s
a
ing that
endell
ill~ie
ill be the
epub
ic
n
c ndidate
in
Nineteen Forty-Four.~
staljooarv.
i•
~
fergory~
And,
Hopkins told
the
newspapermen,
"I
think I
know who the for
g
er
is."
<Aft
e:r::xbtt".tril~::::Petu11ed
Lo
lt1iR
the
one
he
1raepecte
o,
All of which
follows
yesterd y's
proceedings
,
which fe
a
tured st
a
tements made by C. Nelson Sparks,
author
of the book in which the
letter
was printed,
a ~ W i l l k i e . •
..(
tie
book,
"One
Sparks declared
that,
if
the lette
r
was a forgery, it was insti
ated
-
by
Secretary
of the Interior
Ickes. Why?
Because
of
Ickes's
hosti
lit
y
and
enmity
toward Hopkins, said~
'
U:le lettJe:P wa.s
typed
en a ty
p
ewriter ia i;rigge'e effiee..
S.
flC
Ji
a.~other witness before the grand jury today
was a big business man, an oil man - Frank Phi
ll
ips
of Oklahoma.
He is a friend of Secretary Ickes, and
the
al
l
e ed
l
e
er
is said to have passed through his hands,
tr
a
nsmitted by him. This he today denied, sayin
g
be had
neve
r
se
e
n the
etter.
LETT
-
3
---------
~
e
told
ne
s
Pa
P
r:m
en
~
&,nd
add a
ri
l!'"i.
@".
Jn:f:tc11:!'l"b..Y,
n
It sounds
li
.
dir
t
y
o
iti
c
to me."
(
•Dirty
p
o
itic
s
on
h
ose
part?"
he was
a
sked.
T
o which the
Okl
hom
a
oil m
a
n r
espo
nded:
" Do
' t
pre s
s me
,
I
' m
j
us
t
a
c
o
u n
try
Frem
the o~l:
■ BR
•e can
.go
ao
to e.e eil s t ~ -
·
ltoday
1n
a
publication
c
lled
- "The National
Petroleum
News)"
~
statement is made that
presidential
has
advisor Harry HopkinsAusurped the authority
of
Secretary
Ic
ke
s in the realm of oil.
The ma azine article goes on
with the char e that Hopkins, taking the
authority
away
from Ic
ke
s, is virtually dictating the nation's foreign
~olicy
. ~
a...ttl,g
~
The contention is
made that Ickes
I(
~~
is
now nothin
more than
what~f:t
c
a
lls, "a
front
man.•
, .. I\
Ho
pk
ins -
in
f
ull charge of post war
policy.
(
'£l:,
t
I
3
I
1
1
.
I
i
t
EJ L
1
t
li
a a
1
I
~nfen ■ e~ieR
fro ■
nkst lb
iasssttss
as
saaspss
111
s
Y
ou
i
;
h
h
ink
h
·ou
d
lau
h when
the
r
e
's
an
ex lo
si
on
in
a
fa
ctory,
an
·
t
ol
>l ce
b
urns
don
.
How
v
r
,
today's
news
t
11
of
a
bi
fire in Los
n
g
eles,
a
conf
la
ration
t
t
i
ht
voe a
chuc
~ ·
e from
even
the
least
p
yromaniac
o
us
.
Th
story is this
-
A
l
o
ad
ed
dice
fa
c
tor
~
n
d
croo
:
ed rou
ette wheel
plan
t
cau ht
fire
and
w
n
up in
smoke.
ihe
p
leee ;
11
queeMon
eel
J
ed
-
:t:taelf
a-
~rn-±tt2re faetO-Fy
n,
but -trhe-- kin
El
ef
t-urnit1.1Pe
tshe.t
it-
mede
iii
illusti'a:ted
:by
l"ts
catalogues,-
wbie11-
advertised
such items
as:t:n::e
folloWiag
,
"transparent wei
g
hted
dice
,
T
en
ty
Dollars
a
pair."
From wh::-ich
we
gattlep•
of cr:ook:ed
dice••••
y:ou
could
loal:
ivory
v
ari
ty~described
in the
catlilo
g
ue as -
"white
loads
._,
Seven Fifty a
p
.
"
1r.
~
And
on the
list
A ~
p
h
on
Y cr
a
p
l
·
ou
ts
a
nd
swi
ndl
in
g
rou
l
ett
w
hee
l
s.
The
fire s
t r
ted
a
t th
e
dice sh
ving
m
ac
h
ine, which turned out the
"tr
a
nsparent
ei
g
hted"
n
the
"white lo
d
s." Some
ody
was
smokin
g
and
tossed
a
i
g
hted m
a
tch
into
a
p
il
e
of
celluloi
d
shavin
s.
mo
'
in
g
9 . - ~
a
s
forbidden,
but
then
I
sup
p
ose
eem9-00~
I\
m
ight not be so scr~pulous
in observing the rules in
,.\
a crooked dice factory.
In
any
case, there
was a
flash,
an
d
the f
mes
burned down the building and all
of its merchan~ise, enough
phoney
gambling apparatus to
<f.Qi
~windle half the
people
of the country,
if
they
were
fools
enough.
n
u
,,.1
ro
h
hit th
e
0
1
of
ci
nee, and
t
ti
e
it'
out
ramm
r.
You
no
the
y
t:mft,
sci
ntist
n
technici·ns write,
an
maybe you've
found
it
ost
incomprooe ns ib
e
-
it.h
all those big ords.
ut
_
robably
you
neve
sus
e
ted
·that
the
professors
Kai
&-f
the
p.eee-naito
e..c-~~ve1!
ere
a so
committing outra£e
a
r
inst
t
e
r
mar of
the English lan ua e.
hat kind
cf
outra e?
That is ans
-
~
E. H.
McClelland
of
the Carnegie
Library
of Pittsburgh, who describes the
sci
0
ntific gramm#,me in the follo ing remar able
ords:
•a
noun modifies
a
noun, modifies a noun,
modifies
a noun,"
says
he.
Aai
!Miki
·
'
t
t ► c
let
B&.
•
det
.,;;a
A
l agkt
ag
I
•
n
: e a?
ish1'
The whole thing started over the
question
of
v.het
er
you
should
say - "home serum" or 'e uine serum."
9-€
8
i
d-e
~
e4}-8
±-"
.
In "
e
u
in
e s
er
um" -
an ~d
j
e c
tJ:
v
e
I
mo
1
"hor
serum",
a
noun
m
if
i
s
\
'
rote
ts the grammarian,
cites the following
J
expressions
which
have recently been in rint.
One
reads:
"rudder control mechanism se uence."
In
which -
a noun certainly does mo ify a nouno, several times
~~
over.
Aud
~ae
apoatle e
,,
screa ■ e
,rh
ely
.pJ
Ia
a
scientific article somebody wrote: "instruments-
approach-procedure-summary."
To which the echo
1/"3/
reverberates, •a noun modifies a noun, modifies a
noun, modifie
a
noun."
1
•
HOAX
__
.,.
__
The
r
e
t
rmy convo
y
ho
a
x
at
Da
nbury,
'
Connecticut)
as
e
plaine
to y,
with J.
Edg
r Hoover,
Chief of
he F.B.I.
st tin
t
t i t
as
a
ll because a
/
¥e
soldier,
AOL from
Camp
Alliance,
Nebraska.
w3nted
to
/\
cash
phoney
t
enty
dollar
check.
B~ck in
December
the
Private,
absent without
leave, drove into
Danbury
in
an
army automobile. He
went
to the U.S.0. and announced that
ae
was
a
Sergeant
in advance of a convoy of paratroopers.
Which
convoy
planned to spend the night at Danbury.
That inspired
th patriotic
citizens,who immedi
a
tely prepared to
receive the soldiers of the sky.
Arrangements were made
f
or the b
st
of food, cots placed in•• a local
armory, and
a
roup of
prominent women
~
ot together
to arr~nge en
e
rt
inment.lith
all
this hospitable
excit~ment
goin
on the Sergeant
didn't
do so badly.
Ho ever, the convoy of paratroopers didn't arrive,
HOAX
9
----------
.........
hereu on
he
announced
th t
they
h
h
d
n
accident
in
ich
our
ere
·
i
.
ed and seven
others,including
the
com
ma
ndin
o
f i
r
,
ere inju ed. That he ex
p
lained
h"'d
'
el yed
he
aratroope-r-
, whereu
..
on
he
cashed
a
~
t
enty
dolla~
~
and
eft
to n, presum bly to j o i n ~
~~~~~
~ / \ . t h e check bounced,
ad.ll_n
investigation
a-J~~
~
was
be
un~reve
a ~
th t the mystery of
I\
non-existent
paratroo
p
convoy was nothing more than the cock and
bull
story of a soldier AWOL cashing a bum check.
H
re
'
s
ord from
the
ili
ary
f i r
Com
ittee
of the
Hus
of
e
e e tatives concernin
th
mp
Sh nks
arm
bas
at Oran eburg,
New Y
o
rk.
Newspaper
es
h
ve
b en
n
de
th
t
re
t
a e of graft has
been
oin
at
th
~
sation
is
made
by
n
base.
b
ac
e
"
the
•
YO
,.
I
y
ich
t,~etss
tt18
t
it
has
fe
_.Bd
'
r.R.at
it
c
c1
lls
•
'eviaeaee
tAe.1;
kit;it
officers
at
tllla
■ ilite.r,
installe+,ien werketi
ift
l@agaE
with tibillans-
!-he
NEW YORK 1Hdb¥ MEWS
declares that there has been
profit-splitting,
padded-payments for e
q
uipment,
boosted-land
orices,
misappropriation of
gasoline,
an
b
ack
market o
erations.
So
what
has the
House Mi
l
it
ry
A fairs
C
mmi t
Cons 1
al
h
. Burton
dee
red t
t
f i r s
at
the
G
RAF
T -
------
base
h
a
~een
s
crutini
zed fo
r s
o
m
A
time. "Our
invest
ig
ators," he s
a
i
d
, "h
a
v
e
h
ad
eam
p
Shan
k
s under
obse
r
v
a
tion
f
or more th
a
n a ye
a
r."
!na
he
added
bhet
.
QYide&oe eae ~eeB ~aeartbad an<l tbe
Ce ■■ i\tee
we~~
s\apt
geiftt;
eve?
that
evidence
some
time fiext
wee:k
,
-
wewli kold op@n hearinge:
He was asked about the
ch
a
rges made by the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.
To which he
res
p
onded:
"I don•~ think th~y•re f
a
r
rong."
JUGO
S
L
A
VIA
----
·
------
In the Jugoslav
g
uerrill
a
fighting, Partisan
troo
p
s have bounced back a
g
ainst the Germans who were
pressin
them so har
d
- and Marshal Tito's men have
J
rec
ap
t red a town w
h
ich haa
been their capital.
~
~
ef e.n
imperte:ni
-
i:-9-ie
•
-
in
the
.Tttgbs
1av 1rreg
alab
f-igh
't,
ing, wh1t:?t 11;
so
coufa!ed ae to
·
be almos
l>
tneemprehensible
.
Today's news from t
h
ose mountains goe
on with
a description of how Marshal Tito, the Partisan chief,
- - ~
was wounde<l,e_
Be••~
leading his forces out of a trap
in
w
h twas an almost impossible escape. The Germans
had thrown a powerful and complete ring around the
g
uerrilla army, and these~aunched a supreme drive to
get out - led by Tito.
In fighting, a Nazi bullet
c
l
ip
p
ed him in the arm, but he ke
p
t on at the head of
his troo
p
s - and
they did break out
of the tra.
LETTE
R
-
4
-------
members of Congress."
~
~
~
! -
And it
goes
on.A
t:o
dec1e1•e1-
"Ickes, they s
a
y,
knows
what he
wants
and how it
should be done, but he is
powerless
to *ove in any
direction unless and until the White House favorite
g
iv e
s
.
the
word
. "
k>
.
All of which might seem to
giveAthe
affair-of-th
let te
7
ram if ic at ions far in to the realm of petroleum.-:,
and the war policies of the United State;)
PACIFIC - 2
-------
the
ar
in the
air
- familiar tidings. The Marshall
Islands
wc,e
hit again - and repeatedly. The Navy
announces four more raids a
g
ainst that archipelago .
.
~
~"'Rtaids have been officially characterized as -
I
"softening up."
MacARTHUR
-----------
Some people have been rather worried about
stories that General Douglas MacArthur might be retired
as Commander-in-Chief in the so~thwest Pacific.
These rumors
were
provoked by the fact that next
W•dnesday is
MacArthur's birthday,
when
he
will
be
sixty-four, the age at
which
generals can be retired.
~ ,
~ -
.:S:--
o
~ c . - - i
~
But MacArthur will not beA
.1,,
,,
at.n1tb:;:
Secretary of
War,.Sti ■ sea
hlmaelt-
A newspaper
r>vt
J
man asked him today
a
bout it, ,ndAStimson replied:
\
•definitely no",. 4n4 lie
e:dclel-t
1
1
We\114 bot
•orr1
Abaat.
.
~~
t:tr.a:t
i::f
I
Wire
y
ott~ General UacArthu~
m
retirei) at
his own re
q
uest Jin NineteenThiTty-Seven, 11,ut subsequent!
µ
was reca
l
led for active duty.
-
"
The im
p
ortance of that
A.
~
VLfW
is that the
atetute
at.
age limi~does notAap
p
ly to
L
MacArthur.
ao--thAIPW
One t h i ~
don't have to worry
(\
~
ASl-
_,f
-
1.1.-+-
Vlt,,
about)
t<---Q...
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:..::.:J
<Y-R
~
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CHURCHILL
-
-
a
a sure
~-
-
-~.
~ - < ~ ~ - - - -
si
g
n that
Winsln
Churchill has
r~cove
ed,
he
is
t
a
.
ing
a
hand in that awkward squabble
over the
post-war
frontier between Russia and Poland.
Tod
a
y he had a
lon
talk at Ten Downing Street
with
three of the leaders of the Polish government in exile.
The British Prime Minister's first aim is to make it
possible for Stalin and the Polish leaders to shake
hands and
make
up.
To bring that about, he
will
probably have to persuade
some
of the Polish
ministers
in London to bow themselves out
of
the p i c t u ~
~
t.:f"J,,_General Sosnowski, Commander-in-Chief
of the Polish fighting forces,
whom
the Soviet
heads
definitely consider to be anti-Russian.
And
meanwhile
European diplomats
were deeply
int
e
re
s
ted in
a
couple of articleswhich appeared in a
Polish
newspaper published in
Uoscow.
This
paper
is
the organ
of
the Union of Polish
Patriots,
organized
'
CHOR CHILL - 2
under the
a
uspices of the Soviet Government, me~ng
A
\
t
h
a
t
it
is
pro-Soviet.
One of these articles
was a
plea for the return of not only Ea~t Purssia to the
Poles, but also Silesia, Pomer
a
nia and Danzig. The
piece was writ~en by a professor, and he went even
further than that.
He demanded that the great landed
estates of the Polish aristocracy be returned to the
peasants and that all industries ,and mines taken
from
the Germans be nationalized.
In short, if that
wing
of the Polish people attains control after the
war,
Poland
will
come pretty close to being a Soviet country,
~ ~
~
~
~~~
.
.
All Europe still is i~ a dither about that PRAVDA
story of last Monday, the story that Ribbentrop
i
met a cou
p
le of high British personalities at
San Sebastian or thereabouts
The latest
news
that
excites Europe is a report of the Berlin radio that
lz••sxI■•xJIJllfX~!i
several members of the Turkish
Cabinet had dined with Franz v~n
Papen,
the German
A
bassador
to Turkey.
!hat-,.+
1J
1omid1
-
Hke
a
=
goo~
~t;:::::r,:t:.=-:--:m:D:e:t:ii=ii=e~,=~;=13~~t:a::n~==bta:c:mife:Aambassadors
are
always giving dinners to Ca·binet members
~
the
A
countries to whom they are accredited.
However, this
particular dinner
is
considered of unusual importance
because two
months
ago, the London Sunday Times had a
story about offers of peace which von Pape~ had made
through Turkey.
h
I
aa tt:11r
ot::fa:c
t,
even the
Barli11=-
i?&dio e.aniee-the.1; the
Naai
gevernment
has t>hrewB eat-
any peaee
pPopoeelo.
ADD
CHURCHILL
__
......_.
_________
---------
~
~ e r
in
the
day
:;
wh·ch
much
relieved the diplomatic tension in
Europe.
ijoscu
t ■
disavowed
that
PRAVDA
story. The Deputy
i•~•
I
Foreign Commies r of the Soviet Government informed
the British Embassy at
oscow
that no official of the
Russian
Government was responsible for the publication
of that report. Furthermore, he added, the Stalin
Government had no
revious
knowledge
of the story
before
it
app~ared in print. The Russians expressed
considerable surprise at the excitement that
it
aroused:(t any rate, London no• hopes the
whole
matter
will be dropped.
RUSSIA -
2
........
----
as,
the
tor
e
wide
gaps
in the ttazi line for a distance
of nineteen miles, all the
way
to the Leningrad area.
"frncidentally, th
dt
city, built by Peter the Great on
the
Neva, arshes,
is now
beyond the range of enemy
artil
l
ery.
Meretskov had brought his artillery up
around Novgorod and so
c o m p ~
encircled it with
his heavy
guns
that the garrison
was
completely blanketed
by
their fire. Then the Soviet troops forced· the upper
~~
reaches of Lake Ilmen and outflanked the Nazis on the
front in order to storm the city from the sides.
The name •Novgorod• means
•new
town", but
actually it's one of the most ancient cities of
Russia.
~
Ffounded by the Vikin
·
gs in the early
days
of
Christianity.
London declare that the
reta ing of Novgorod is as important as the victories at
RUSSIA - 3
__
.....,
__ _
7F
Smolensk and Bryans
k
.
,
~
~
~
~
b - ~
~
;,_
~~
T,f' 'y\.vl
J.J.
St
l i
n c er
ird:Ny
~
n:
o:t
d
av
to do a
man's job in th
a
t battle.
under Meretskov
were
no few
e
r than twelve ot r generals.
It was Yeretskov,
by
the
way,
Line
in
the
broke the Finnish
Uannerheim
of Nineteen Thirty-Nine=Nineteen
I\
Meretskov also
who was
responsible for
ture of Mojaisk
1
in the fi~st great Russian
The recapture of Novgorod, plus the holes
that
Meretskov has punched in the German line to the north,
~ -
has placed
a,.
large
Germa~~ some
three
hundred
thousand soldiers, in peril. A considerable force is
on the verge of being surrounded seventeen miles south
of Leningrad. The forests
af tround Lake Ilman are full
of disorganized bands of Nazis, cut off from the main
body
of the army, and harrassed
by
guerrillas.
AIR R
A
ID
__
...
_....
-
----
The big Ame
ri
an
a
ir r
a
id over Germany last
week h
a
s
p
roduced results inv
a
luable to the Allied cause •
..._,C)_;f--~
~
D
e.J
~
~] ... &Jut•
it
•?\
the big
g
est ever·, tw
e
lve
hundred
.
l
a
nes.
aw~
lost sixty ~mbers and
five fighters.
'
nock out three
•
But the effectlli, of that. raid
Wl',IJ&-to
)
~~
huge German factories turning out
,,
a most totally destroyed, another was almoe~ eomple•e1,
kno~ked out, a n d • the third
ith-9
damage~e
eeit»imateau
an,wher,
from thirty to forty per cent.
In addition to
~
~
the Americai{h'if
k
nocked down a hundred and
fifty-three enemy planes •
.s
s
0
Ill
\ I ~ we learn today from Secretary of
War
Stimson ~pointed out that rt is more important to
.
;I
wreck
a factory w
h
ich
produces two hundred planes a
month th
a
n t
o
shoot down two hundred
p
lanes.
t>
i::a;ct..Tiiis evenin there w
as
another big
aerial
attack on either Berlin or some nearby city. The
British
government
says nothing about this, but
~
Stockholm reporteA that telephone communications
with
Berlin he.A been cut,
aaa
tba~
always a~~e•• waea
L...
Nia ls 4toth« .,,._ This Mitiaatly wae a
oaPtie 'ay \a•
PACIFIC
-------
-
---
~
Th
e
news from New Bri
~
ain tonight
){'oeerua
~~-
t t ~
~-~
~
, 1
air a
acks/1.Allied bombers
~
visit to
·
WI• Jip
f=kt.Pe•a
:a:t..
Rabat
l:
a~d h ~ h t enemy cargo
~
/\.
ships, ""tiree of
,{tl19se
alllpl'\ blew up and saniy Two
others
"¥4
left burning~ and three more
rm
badly
damaged.
others in th&b-
part ut
Lbw
t,
twelve American planes
ae&-Jt
lost.
7t
~ w ~ w
~ c t n d
one of our bombers crashed
A...
~
,A-fl
£,..J-rt.t--
in to a ship's mast. They had to meet a defending force
of more
than a
hund:ed Jap fighU.rs.
~ u t
1!111a1.
- ~ A
eighteen •;{__~deEtroyed probabl
y
fifteen
■ore.
A
A
In
tbe
f'igJ.t,
I
ex;
an
land, the Japs made- another
H
.
1
8
1
i ~ ~ •
d Si•~
But
Li
marines
1
r~-
KA
__ ., __ ,
~
back anclihey, ~ 1 : ¢ ! f r e a t e ~ : ! l ! Y
..
~
t
t\
,,A
A
/\.
attack
on
beat them
hundred and twent
y
-six
-of
t.hei:• dead. oa
the:
srouai.
There were also aerial attacks in the
I
Karshall Islands. These were carried out by army planes,
bombers of Major General Willis Hale's Seventh Air Fore
But the announcement came
from
the headquarters of
Admiral Chester Niaitz at Pearl Harbor.
Nimitz
announced that the
army
bombers hit four
times
at two
of the important atolls held by the Japanese at the
•
southern end of the Marshall group.
Our planes came in
low, bombing and machine-gunning, and they accoaplished
a lot of useful destruction.
CRASH
------
A newspaper in Birmingham, Alabama, is makin
g
a
formal protest against the arbitrary actions of an
army
.
officer. Tuesday night, a bomber crashed
4 '
p;ivate pPope~,,
near Birmingham, and nine members of
the crew were killed.
I
~
;;,=;..
'lne Birmingham
■••
-
--·-
·
·
·
---
·
··
·
·
·
·
·
·-
.....
--
newspapers rushed reporters and
.
cameramen to the scene.
~ ·
ll'CI
~
~ e & , . . , 4 1 1 1 ~
~ ~
'74AI'<
(1A.L
~ ~
refused to permit~ reporter to
~ , . . . , , , . . , _ . . , , ~ ,.._ ~ ~ " " ' 7 M . , , - r . : : .
interview e•••
civilian
witnessesJ
Either he
officer then confiscated the camera of a
news
photographer.
The report
from
Birmingham states that
,
b
o
th the War Department ·and the Office of Censorship
have admitted that the officers of the Army Air Base
at Birmingham
w
ho were on duty at the scene had no
right to drhat they did.
more people have died on the home front since Pearl
Harbor than on the field of battle. The casualty list
of injuries is also prodigious.
~heee pie,le have
aiei
hlestly
~
accidents- in factories.
The total number of dead here at home in these
two years and
leas
than two montbs is no fewer than
thirty-seven thousand, six hundred.
TllaL
iL•
fl,.ve thousa
more than our armed forces lost in combat.
In addition
)
~
two-hundred-and-ten thousand .workers have
been
permanently disablediand four million, five hundred
thousand temporarily injured•
:Iii
other words,
sixty
times the wounded and
missing from
our
·
ar■ ed
forces.
The worst of it is, according to national safety
organizations, that eighty per cent of all industrial
accidents could be prevented. They are caused
by
human
failure, carelessness, lack of skill, improper clothi~
~-A>Ld ~ .
__
A
c
__ c_r_~fili!.§...:.
2
9!
t!M!,a4relessnesst~far
the m o s ~
cause.
~f alh
The O.W.I. points out that these figures show
the need for wh
a
t it calls•~ second front on safety.•
'
.. a ~
As a
matter of shee~economy alon~tttm setting
aside
the question of humanity, it is immediately urgent that
safety programs be instituted wherever people work.
MI
L
K
---
There will be no milk rationing until late int
e
.
su
mm
e • or maybe early in the fall.
The War Food
Administration is going to try other measures meanwhile,
in the hope of postponing the ev41 day.
It will issue
an order in a few days restricting the making of all
cheese except cottage cheese and cheddar.
At the
same
time,
the Administration w i l l ~ ~ t s control over
the distribution of milk.
Th!s has already been
done
in a hundred an
d
thirty major cities, and will shortly
be extended to others.
POPE
-~--
f . 1 . - ~
.
~ .
~-
!l-~
JCl,fcf.
S-...v.
Here
hs
a late bit of news
coming through Switzerland.
Pope Pius the Twelfth
will
stay in the Holy liSJ See, come what may.
The
(Suggested to the
Nazi Ambassador
to
Vatican City
hasAi•xxtaixska
Pontiff)
la•stf~that
if he wishes to take refuge in some
f t ' J ~
the
German!will protect him. APope
neutral place,
~ d ~ •
g
~
~
Pius "-
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