On Indian border –
Japs reach edge of Imphal plain
British repulse drive on second base
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Hull: National disunity can cause new world war
Secretary defends foreign policy vigorously in 45-minute radio broadcast
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Inductions stop Wednesday –
Exams to halt for essential men over 26
Non-essential workers must go as before
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OWI’ll tell the world –
Lucey: Propaganda of U.S. lavish, but indefinite
$3 million a month spent by agency
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Draft change to give men over 26 only brief respite
Reprieve will last from few weeks in some localities to 90 days in others
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Draft change due to curb ‘dodging’
Court ruling leads to proposed revision
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Naples curb modified
Naples, Italy –
A partial lifting of restrictions against troops entering Naples while off duty was announced by officials today because of “spring weather and improvement in the typhus situation.” A center will be opened for soldiers arriving in organized groups, but the men must leave by 6:00 p.m. CET.
New air base built behind Japs in Burma
U.S. airborne force finishes job quickly
By George Palmer, United Press staff writer
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Raids continued to soften up Truk
Japanese see ‘lull before the storm’
By the United Press
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Historical Section of Army defers recognizing top ace
Doubt expressed on Capt. Don Gentile’s 27 since policy counts only planes shot down
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Critic praised by Roosevelt
Washington (UP) –
President Roosevelt recently made a gesture of good will toward one of his strongest Democratic critics – Senator Guy M. Gillette (D-IA).
In a letter dated March 10, when Mr. Gillette was determined not to seek reelection this year, the President urged him to reconsider. He asked Mr. Gillette to run again the grounds that men like him are urgently needed in the Senate.
Mr. Gillette subsequently said he had been advised by the Iowa Democratic state organization that thousands of names had been obtained on petitions on behalf of his candidacy. For that reason, he said he would run again if the people insisted.
Mr. Gillette has been antagonistic toward the administration since 1938 when Harry L. Hopkins, the President’s adviser, tried to prevent his reelection.
Recently, Mr. Gillette said he does not favor a fourth term. He has been a frequent critic of “New Dealers.”
Roper: Loudspeakers carry message of Easter to Nazis on Italian front
U.S. guns stilled in Garigliano area as chaplains hold services near no man’s land
By James E. Roper, United Press staff writer
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Marshall prays for freedom
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‘Benny the Bum’s’ own story –
Mussolini would have come to U.S. for war criminal trial, he thinks
He would have been on exhibit, Duce says
By Henry P. McNulty, United Press staff writer
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Sullivans bring lump to throat
Family life of five heroes is dramatized in film at Fulton
By Lenore Brundige
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Willkie likely to adopt passive role
May limit talks to GOP platform
By Lyle C. Wilson
New York –
Wendell L. Willkie was reported today by his closest associates to believe that it is best for him to take no part in the selection of a Republican presidential nominee either before or during the party’s national convention in Chicago in June.
But he is determined to measure carefully the men, their records and the platform which emerge from that gathering. Prior to the convention, however, he probably will speak clearly on the type of platform he believes should be adopted.
To speak more freely
On the first weekend after his spectacular withdrawal from the presidential contest, associates described Mr. Willkie as feeling that he has recaptured his independence. Henceforth, he is expected to speak his mind even more freely than prior to last week’s Wisconsin primary which swamped his 1944 presidential aspirations.
Some weeks probably will pass before Mr. Willkie resumes discussion of political issues. His plans are understood to be to so a great deal of listening – especially to the men most prominently mentioned for the Republican nomination – and to undertake to measure them and their records against the issues of the day as he sees them.
Shuns ‘stop’ campaign
Mr. Willkie has told his friends that he does not intend to participate in any “stop” movements directed against any candidate nor to promote the candidacy of any man. but repeatedly in conversations with his friends, Willkie has said he intends to “say what I think.”
His friends were hopeful, but Mr. Willkie had few illusions during the latter weeks of his pre-convention campaign. Associates explained that Mr. Willkie had recognized for months that powerful forces in the Republican organization hoped to repudiate his candidacy.
Local organizations were generally uneasy over Willkie’s stand on post-war international affairs. But the Willkie camp feels that this doubt was stimulated to outright opposition by the organized effort of a group of powerful party leaders including Joseph N. Pew Jr. and Ernest T. Weir of Pennsylvania and the New York State and Illinois party organizations.
Dewey, Stassen backed
They say this opposition backed delegates pledged to New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey and delegates pledged to LtCdr. Harold Stassen, former Governor of Minnesota, particularly in those Wisconsin districts in which no Dewey delegates were entered.
Wisconsin returns were so overwhelmingly against Mr. Willkie’s candidacy that no single issue could be cited as the central factor. But the Madison, Wisconsin, speech of Senator Joseph H. Ball (R-MN) is counted by Willkie adherents among the hardest blows struck in that campaign.
Mr. Ball was Cdr. Stassen’s manager and chief campaigner. He is reported to have told a Madison audience that his man was committed to the post-war territorial integrity of Germany – that there should be no post-war political dismemberment of that country.
Chicago Tribune backs Gen. MacArthur
Chicago, Illinois (UP) –
The Chicago Tribune today endorsed Gen. Douglas MacArthur as Republican candidate for the Presidency.
Gen. MacArthur, one of the two Republican candidates entered in the Illinois presidential preference primary Tuesday, was entered in the Illinois primary by the MacArthur-for-President Club. Gen. MacArthur did not indicate his desire to be a candidate.
Gen. MacArthur’s opponent is Riley A. Bender, former Illinois state prison warden.