Here we ‘stop and go’ –
Joe E. Brown ‘takes listeners for a ride’
Big-mouthed star joins air authors
By Si Steinhauser
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Here we ‘stop and go’ –
Völkischer Beobachter (March 24, 1944)
Die Gründe für Badoglios Schwenkung zu den Sowjets
Der Verräterkönig und sein Marschall als Handlanger des Machthabers im Kreml
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Auchinleck versucht zu trösten –
Besorgnisse in Neudelhi um die Burmafront
Von unserem Berichterstatter in der Schweiz
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Ein bemerkenswertes Geständnis –
‚US-Bevölkerung am schlechtesten informiert‘
Eigener Bericht des „Völkischen Beobachters“
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White House Statement on Opening Frontiers to War Victims and Justice for War Crimes
March 24, 1944
The United Nations are fighting to make a world in which tyranny and aggression cannot exist; a world based upon freedom, equality, and justice; a world in which all persons regardless of race, color, or creed may live in peace, honor, and dignity.
In the meantime, in most of Europe and in parts of Asia the systematic torture and murder of civilians – men, women, and children – by the Nazis and the Japanese continue unabated. In areas subjugated by the aggressors, innocent Poles, Czechs, Norwegians, Dutch, Danes, French, Greeks, Russians, Chinese, Filipinos – and many others – are being starved or frozen to death or murdered in cold blood in a campaign of savagery.
The slaughters of Warsaw, Lidice, Kharkov, and Nanking – the brutal torture and murder by the Japanese, not only of civilians but of our own gallant American soldiers and fliers – these are startling examples of what goes on day by day, year in and year out, wherever the Nazis and the Japs are in military control – free to follow their barbaric purpose.
In one of the blackest crimes of all history, begun by the Nazis in the day of peace and multiplied by them a hundred times in time of war, the wholesale systematic murder of the Jews of Europe goes on unabated every hour. As a result of the events of the last few days, hundreds of thousands of Jews, who while living under persecution have at least found a haven from death in Hungary and the Balkans, are now threatened with annihilation as Hitler’s forces descend more heavily upon these lands. That these innocent people, who have already survived a decade of Hitler’s fury, should perish on the very eve of triumph over the barbarism which their persecution symbolizes, would be a major tragedy.
It is therefore fitting that we should again proclaim our determination that none who participate in these acts of savagery shall go unpunished. The United Nations have made it clear that they will pursue the guilty and deliver them up in order that justice be done. That warning applies not only to the leaders but also to their functionaries and subordinates in Germany and in the satellite countries. All who knowingly take part in the deportation of Jews to their death in Poland or Norwegians and French to their death in Germany are equally guilty with the executioner. All who share the guilt shall share the punishment.
Hitler is committing these crimes against humanity in the name of the German people. I ask every German and every man everywhere under Nazi domination to show the world by his action that in his heart he does not share these insane criminal desires. Let him hide these pursued victims, help them to get over their borders, and do what he can to save them from the Nazi hangman. I ask him also to keep watch, and to record the evidence that will one day be used to convict the guilty.
In the meantime, and until the victory that is now assured is won, the United States will persevere in its efforts to rescue the victims of brutality of the Nazis and the Japs. Insofar as the necessity of military operations permit, this government will use all means at its command to aid the escape of all intended victims of the Nazi and Jap executioner, regardless of race or religion or color. We call upon the free peoples of Europe and Asia temporarily to open their frontiers to all victims of oppression. We shall find havens of refuge for them, and we shall find the means for their maintenance and support until the tyrant is driven from their homelands and they may return.
In the name of justice and humanity, let all freedom-loving people rally to this righteous undertaking.
U.S. Navy Department (March 24, 1944)
Communiqué No. 514
Pacific and Far East.
U.S. submarines have reported the sinking of eleven vessels as a result of operations against the enemy in these waters, as follows:
- 1 converted minelayer.
- 2 small freighters.
- 3 medium-sized transports.
- 1 medium-sized tanker.
- 3 medium-sized freighters.
- 1 large tanker.
These sinkings have not been reported in any previous Navy Department communiqué.
CINCPAC Press Release No. 324
For Immediate Release
March 24, 1944
Thirty‑three tons of bombs were dropped on four enemy positions in the Marshalls by Mitchell bombers of the 7th Army Air Force, Ventura search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two and Navy Hellcat fighters and Dauntless dive bombers and Corsair fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing on March 22 (West Longitude Date).
A large fire was set on one of the atolls and ground installations were hit on another. All of our planes returned.
On March 21, a search plane of Fleet Air Wing Two bombed facilities on Ant Island.
The Pittsburgh Press (March 24, 1944)
FORTRESSES BLAST REICH 3RD DAY
Nazi airfields in France hit by Liberators
Bombers fail to meet Axis fighter planes
By Phil Ault, United Press staff writer
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ZERO HOUR NEAR, ALLIED CHIEF SAYS
Roosevelt warns foe: United Nations armies are on ‘eve’ of victory
Churchill tells U.S. airborne troops they ‘soon’ will invade Europe
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Artillery, tanks strafe Nazis in Cassino battle
Foe’s losses heavy in fierce fighting
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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Velly funny Japs to fight U.S. with comic strips
By the United Press
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11 more Japs ships sunk by U.S. subs
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Poll: Kentucky GOP favors Dewey, then Willkie
Gen. MacArthur third, survey shows
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
Princeton, New Jersey –
In Kentucky, which Republican leaders are hoping to swing into the GOP column in the coming elections, Thomas E. Dewey leads the list of popular choices today for the presidential nomination among Republican voters.
Field reporters for the Institute asked Kentucky Republicans to pick their present preferences for 1944 from a list of men most often discussed by political commentators and party leaders as leading GOP possibilities.
The results of the present survey are as follows:
| Dewey | 37% |
| Willkie | 30% |
| MacArthur | 25% |
| Bricker | 7% |
| Warren | 1% |
In a similar survey reported in December, Wendell Willkie received 31% of the vote, Governor Dewey 26%, Gen. Douglas MacArthur 20%, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio 13%, Ohio’s Governor John W. Bricker eight percent and California’s Governor Earl Warren one percent, LtCdr. Harold Stassen (former Minnesota Governor) one percent.
Dewey gains strength
Previous surveys throughout the country show that when Mr. Taft’s name is omitted from the list, a substantial percentage of his followers goes to Governor Dewey, which accounts in part for the increase in the Dewey percentage in Kentucky.
At the same time, the New York Governor has shown increasing strength in recent weeks throughout the South and the country as a whole.
Oklahoma favors Dewey
Wendell Willkie’s strength in Kentucky remains substantially the same as it was in the December survey, while Gen. MacArthur shows a slight gain.
The strong Republican trend shown in Kentucky’s gubernatorial election last fall has focused attention on the “border” states.
In Oklahoma, latest surveys show Governor Dewey first in GOP, rank and file preference, with 36% of the Republican vote, Gen. MacArthur second, with 27%, and Mr. Willkie third, with 22%.