CANDIDLY SPEAKING —
Post-war opportunity
By Maxine Garrison
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Völkischer Beobachter (February 29, 1944)
Drei Londoner Stimmen bestätigen jetzt:
England und die USA müssen sich Stalins Diktat beugen
‚Aus Rücksicht auf die Sowjetforderungen‘ wird die Atlantik-Charta fallen gelassen
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Zu den Kämpfen am Monte Cassino –
Völkerchaos brandet gegen deutschen Sperrriegel
Von Kriegsberichter Lutz Koch
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U.S. Navy Department (February 29, 1944)
Communiqué No. 507
Pacific and Far East.
U.S. submarines have reported the sinking of 14 enemy vessels in operations in these waters, as follows:
- 1 large tanker
- 1 medium cargo transport
- 1 small cargo vessel
- 11 medium cargo vessels
These actions have not been announced in any previous Navy Department communiqué.
CINCPAC Press Release No. 287
For Immediate Release
February 29, 1944
Aircraft of the 7th Army Air Force and search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two on February 26 and 27 (West Longitude Date) bombed and machinegunned Japanese‑held positions in the Caroline and Marshall Islands.
Army Liberator bombers hit Ponape with 30 tons of bombs on February 27, causing fires and explosions. Navy search planes strafed dock areas and a small ship at Kusaie on February 26.
Nearly 50 tons of bombs were dropped on seven enemy‑held atolls in the Marshall Islands on February 27 by Army Liberator and Mitchell bombers, Army Warhawk fighters, Army Dauntless dive‑bombers and Navy search Venturas.
Several of our planes were damaged by anti-aircraft fire, but all returned to their base.
The Pittsburgh Press (February 29, 1944)
DRAFT DEFERMENT CURB ORDERED
Boards to revoke all ratings based on non-vital jobs
Crackdown to become especially drastic on all under 26 years of age; family status disregarded
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Fortresses hit Germany unopposed
Americans again plaster Brunswick to finish off plane center
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer
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Big guns break lull at Anzio
U.S. dive bombers pound Rome’s airfields
By Robert Vermillion, United Press staff writer
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Effective Sunday –
OPA slices point values on all pork and some beef
But butter, cheese, veal, lamb and mutton will remain at February levels
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Aide of Roosevelt faces Senate contempt action
Committee orders its attorney to prepare evidence against Daniels for refusal to testify
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Breach widens in membership of high court
Frankfurter charges laxity in constitutional cases; upholds agencies
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Airplanes to replace Hoover’s 2-car garage
CIO leader outlines his hopes for the future; 30-hour workweek deemed desirable
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Votes lined up right and left for Roosevelt
‘Doc New Deal’ may be dead but Hannegan’s alive and ‘merging’
By Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard staff writer
Washington –
President Roosevelt is going to be riding so many different colors of political horses in this coming campaign, all at once, that before it is all over, he will look, figuratively, like one of those circus equestrians.
At the same time, he is going to provide some neat sleight of hand so the audience won’t know whether it’s the right or left hand which is holding the reins.
His right hand was showing a few weeks ago when he dropped the term “New Deal,” a move pleasing to conservatives, in and out of his party. Lately his left hand has been showing in messages to Congress carrying such blistering phrases as “not for the needy but for the greedy,” speaking of the tax bill, and “a high-cost-of-living measure, a food-shortage measure,” speaking of the anti-subsidy bill.
Catch-all program
While the President is indulging in the higher strategy, his chief political lieutenant, Democratic National Chairman Hannegan, is working at a “catch-all” program on the lower level of practical politics.
Mr. Hannegan gave public notice of this on his recent scouting trip when he laid plans in Minnesota for a fusion of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor Parties there, which is exactly the trick the President, himself, arranged there during the 1936 campaign.
Mr. Hannegan not only approved plans for this fusion, but also said this would be a model for merger of other political groups with Democrats in other states.
Wilson’s experience
The Democrats are not going to overlook any little batch of electoral votes anywhere. Woodrow Wilson lost Minnesota by 392 votes in the very close 1916 election, but was saved by his 3,806-vote victory in California.
This year may be a replica of 1916 in its closeness.
An example of political amalgamations which will bring together all sorts of groups this year is New York, where the American Labor Party and the Communist Party will unite with Democrats behind President Roosevelt, and New Jersey, across the river, where the Communists have thrown in with Boss Frank Hague.
Poor grace in 1936
The Minnesota Democratic Party, which has been distinctly a third party in rating, did not take with too much grace the 1936 fusion which Mr. Roosevelt arranged while campaigning there. One Democratic leader, Rep. Elmer J. Ryan, spread his spleen all through the campaign train as it pulled out of the state.
Republicans now control the state, thanks to the political capabilities of former Governor Harold Stassen, now in the Navy, who left a handpicked crew in charge.
The Democrats need help now, and so do the Farmer-Laborites who ruled the state for a number of years under the late Floyd Olsen. They do not seem inclined to ask too many questions about a merger this time.
In Washington –
Dies group members urge Meyer’s ousting
Jap relocation agency head us flayed; Eberharter takes exception
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Note to Congress on soldier vote
London, England –
NOTE TO CONGRESS: If you want the soldiers to vote, you had better take a tip from Flying Fortress bombardier Adam A. Mackow of Newark, New Jersey, and start mailing ballots out now.
Today’s issue of the Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, reveals that Mackow has just received his New Jersey absentee ballot for the gubernatorial election. The election was held last November.
The ballot was mailed to Mackow on Oct. 11, carefully marked, “For Speedy Delivery.”