Allies shatter ransom racket
Stop Nazi attempt to get United Nations money
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Allies push on in New Guinea
Many Japs killed in drive in Mubo area
By Brydon C. Taves, United Press staff writer
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Bombers blast Japs at Munda
77th raid made on base in Solomon Islands
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Eisenhower in ‘goop suit’ tours frontline in jeep
General sometimes covers 200 miles in day on trips through difficult terrain
By C. R. Cunningham, United Press staff writer
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U.S. aerial cameramen beg for cloud dispenser
Without it, they must fly low in picture-taking, easy pickings for Zeros
By George Weller
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U.S. force drives into German trap near start of central Tunisian battle
But Americans hurl best armor into breach at crucial moment to turn tide against Nazis
By Phil Ault, United Press staff writer
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Will Congress curb strikes? This is week that may tell
Threats of aircraft and United Mine Workers expected to influence House and Senate
By Fred W. Perkins, Press Washington correspondent
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Army nurses assigned as transport hostesses
A South Pacific base (UP) – (Feb. 27)
Twenty-four Army nurses today were assigned as hostesses aboard hospital transports to and from Guadalcanal. They will be the first white women permitted on the island since the Marines landed last August.
All the nurses are former airline hostesses and have undergone rigorous training at Bowman Field, Kentucky.
Army authorities emphasized that the Guadalcanal nurses won’t be glamor girls. They will wear overalls or slacks-and-blouse outfits and leather jackets.
I DARE SAY —
Curtailment of movies about war and suffering urged ‘for duration’
By Florence Fisher Parry
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President’s message to launch Red Cross fund drive on radio
Army and Navy chieftains may speak from posts in Africa and Pacific; Willkie addresses rally
By Si Steinhauser
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Michie charges that Washington exaggerates performances of our planes to satisfy pride
War correspondent urges immediate pulverizing of Germany; claims American bombers inferior to best of British
By Harry Hansen
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Presses hum as OWI wages war of words
Uncle Sam’s publications are in many colors and languages
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Publishers ask Roosevelt to repudiate gag by OWI
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Nightmare of Tunisian collapse averted, but costly fight looms
Again possible to feel that Allies can revive offensive soon
By William H. Stoneman
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American, British armies work as unit in Africa
Lively discussions by Allied officers contribute to spontaneous cooperation
By Virgil Pinkley, United Press staff writer
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Editorial: We gamble in Spain
The revelation that the United States is sending to fascist Spain large amounts of oil, chemicals, food and other products vitally needed in this country and on our fighting fronts, will shock many Americans.
U.S. Ambassador Hayes, in Barcelona, went so far as to say this had boosted Spanish petroleum supplies:
…considerably higher than the present per capita distribution to the people of the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States itself.
What possible justification can there be for such an American policy?
Isn’t Dictator Franco a puppet of Dictator Hitler, to whom he is largely indebted for his position? Isn’t Franco an advocate of Axis victory and an enemy of democracy? Didn’t Franco’s agents head up the dangerous Axis subversive movements in Latin America? Has not Franco placed his best fascist troops in Spanish Morocco, where they can stab in the back the American Expeditionary Force, if he decides he can win?
The answer seems to be, yes. But that is the point. It is because Franco is in such a strategic position at the moment that the Allies cannot afford to ignore him.
Ambassador Hayes describes this as a “good neighbor policy” toward Spain:
…so long as the war lasts and is kept away from Spanish lands.
Whatever may be the polite diplomatic term, the essence is perilously close to American payment of blackmail to an enemy.
As bad as this is, we can think of lots worse. That sudden stab at the AEF for instance.
So probably the best we can do, in the circumstances, is to hold our nose and get on with this smelly business. We didn’t expect war to be nice and if this is part of the price of victory, we had better save our shudders for casualty lists and things that hurt us more.
It is important, however, that we not kid ourselves. Even if military expedience forces us to play with a blackmailer, we would be fools to trust him. That could be very costly to our troops in Africa.
Let us not forget for a moment that Franco has Spain, as well as Spanish Morocco and the strategic Balearic Islands, honeycombed with Hitler “tourists” and “specialists” – and that large Nazi forces are on the Spanish-French frontier. Let us be sure that all these American oil, chemical and food supplies are not used against us.
Assuming that this policy is necessary and worth the gamble, assuming that it buys us essential time, the test is still how we use that time. Axis Spain will remain the chief danger to our African and coming South European campaigns until we are strong enough to isolate Franco from his partners, Mussolini and Hitler.
U.S. issues longest list of casualties
Names of wounded added to Army report; kin advised
By the United Press
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Easy censorship magnifies effect of African news
Dispatches on U.S. victory carry more weight after people receive truth on earlier American setback
By Carroll Binder
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