U.S. State Department (April 10, 1944)
740.0011 European War 1939/33902: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland to the Secretary of State
Bern, April 10, 1944 — 7 p.m.
[Received 10:44 p.m.]
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My 2204, April 8.
I was able to see Mr. Bonna this afternoon and handed him letter addressed to Mr. Pilet-Golaz as directed your 1147 and 1176 with draft drawn by Daymont. Mr. Bonna expressed his sincere appreciation and assured me that he would not fail to inform Mr. Pilet-Golaz immediately upon his return which he expected would be in time for usual meeting of Federal Council tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock. I also took occasion to say to Mr. Bonna that you planned no publicity. He thanked me and said he presumed that there would be no objection to eventual announcement here.
Mr. Bonna told [me?] the Federal Government had appointed an expert to determine damages in consultation with cantonal and city authorities and if I so desired he would be glad to arrange for a representative of Legation to follow the investigations. In his opinion criteria existed for determining material damage; it was more difficult to fix personal damages. I thanked Mr. Bonna for his offer and stated position as set forth last sentence, section II, your 1176.
HARRISON
Völkischer Beobachter (April 11, 1944)
Deutsche Abwehrkraft wächst
Während die anderen ‚baldige Invasion‘ prophezeien
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U.S. Navy Department (April 11, 1944)
CINCPAC Press Release No. 347
For Immediate Release
April 11, 1944
Ailuk, Rongelap, Likiep and Utirik Atolls and Mejit Island in the Marshalls have been reconnoitered by our forces and U.S. sovereignty established thereon.
An airfield at Ponape Island was bombed by 7th Army Air Force Mitchells on April 9 (West Longitude Date). On the same day Liberator and Mitchell bombers of the 7th Army Air Force, Dauntless dive bombers and Corsair fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing and Navy Hellcat fighters dropped 55 tons of bombs on four enemy positions in the Marshalls. Wharves, barracks, hangars, gun positions and airstrips were hit in these raids.
One search plane of Fleet Air Wing Two bombed Ulul Island and another strafed two small craft near Ponape.
The Pittsburgh Press (April 11, 1944)
2,000 U.S. planes rip Germany
Pre-invasion air blows reach new intensity in mighty smashes
By Phil Ault, United Press staff writer
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Lehman’s son dies in crash
Kin of ex-Governor on practice flight
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Yanks occupy 5 more points in Marshalls
Allies take over most of New Britain
By Willian B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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Nazi rail lines in Italy blasted
Attacks repulsed at Anzio and Cassino
By Reynolds Packard, United Press staff writer
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Essential jobs for young men pared to 14
Only 2 activities rate blanket deferments
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Capt. Topping, Sonja’s husband, flattens Flynn with one punch
Dispute is mystery; friendship professed
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Confidentially, they stink!
Jap soldiers’ ‘B.O.’ helps Yanks to avoid ambush
Enemy’s diet of dried fish gives him an unmistakable odor, Marine says
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Eyewitness story –
Mighty U.S. task force hits Japs
Palau Islands left a smoking inferno
By Dan McGuire, United Press staff writer
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Tornadic storms kill 17 in South
By the United Press
Tornadic storms left at least 17 persons dead in Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma today as a high-pressure area, attended by general storm conditions, moved eastward. Over 500 families were homeless.
At least 15 persons were known dead in Arkansas, one in Texas and one in Oklahoma, and the list was expected to grow as reports trickled in from areas where communication lines were destroyed. More than 140 were injured.
Tornadoes lashed Arkansas from north to south last night. As the storm center moved eastward, high winds were reported to have disrupted telephone service between Birmingham and Jasper, Alabama. No casualties had been reported in Alabama.
Four persons were killed and 16 injured at a Farm Security Administration project near Woodson, Arkansas, 20 miles south of Little Rock. Nine were killed in Monroe, Pulaski and Boone counties, and two at Pine Bluff.
Japan pouring fresh troops into Burma
Tokyo seeks to speed invasion of India
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Aussie ‘releases’ in Army defensed
‘Just a paper move,’ statement says
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Court divides on application of labor act
Rutledge sees trap for employers
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12 companies lose Navy star because of steel union walkouts
Board interprets strikes as production losses no matter who or what starts them
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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In Washington –
Heavy artillery given higher rating by WPB
Placed on par with landing craft
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Foster: Aussie double talk confuses Helen
Fantastic lingo has actress on ropes – but she’s learning it
By Ernest Foster
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Winchell files $250,000 suit
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Owlett: New Deal seeks domination
Manufacturers’ head denounces theorists
Doylestown, Pennsylvania – (special)
G. Mason Owlett, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association, in a speech here last night, charged the New Deal with seeking “to gain complete domination of all industry, all enterprise and all initiative.”
He said:
We see this in the limitations being cunningly imposed on free enterprise by rattle-pated theorists who seek to make over our economic system without admitting that it’s being socialized.
Red tape curbs enterprise
Mr. Owlett is also Republican National Committeeman from Pennsylvania and a candidate at the April 25 primary for delegate-at-large to the Republican presidential convention.
He said:
When victory is finally ours, we don’t want an America where every detail of our private lives is run by government brass hats. A man has to have a little room to move around in if he’s going to do his part to build a better world. He can’t do much when he’s all tied up with regulations, red tape, restrictions and trick taxes that rob him of all chance to live his own life and plan his own adventures.
Personal initiative destroyed
Mr. Owlett said the Roosevelt administration “has destroyed personal initiative and undermined the pillars of all enterprise.”
He said:
The greatest contribution that government can make toward the steady increase in the American standard of living aside from war production, sound money, proper tariffs and fair courts, will be made if government avoids competition in industry and confines itself to the strictest protection of equality and corporate ventures into new fields.