JANUARY
Anglo-Reich Talks On Navies Halted Without An Accord
Peru Tried to Color News And Spied on U.S. at Lima
U.S. Agents Gather In Lima To Combat Fascists’ Inroads
WPA Funds Were Used For Politics In 3 States, Senate Committee Finds; Congress Opens In Independent Mood
Roosevelt Offers A Defense Program Against Rising Menace Of Dictators; Threat Of Economic Sanctions Seen
Roosevelt Offers $9,000,000,000 Budget, With New Record Totals For Defense; Also Asks $875,000,000 For Relief Now
Senators Move To Control Relief Spending; Cut Of $200,000,000 Is Sought
Roosevelt Asks Democrats To Unite Behind New Deal; Urges Others To Join G.O.P.
Hungarians Renew Fight With Czechs In Frontier Areas
Move To Cut Relief Fund Makes Gain In Congress; La Guardia Asks For More
President Assigns Hopkins To Reconcile Labor Groups, Study Wagner Act Changes
Open Showdown On Relief Now Planned In The House; $875,000,000 Bill Introduced
Vermont Votes Support To Gov. Aiken In Battle On Federal Land Seizure
House In Rebellion Passes Relief Bill At $725,000,000; Restricts Use Of The Funds
Revision Of Relief System Planned By Senate Group; Would Shut Out Politics
Japan Now Facing U.S.-British Front On ‘New Order’ Idea
Roosevelt Asks Extension Of The Social Security Act To More Aged And Children
Mexico Dispatches Envoy To Germany On Secret Mission
3,000 New Army Airplanes Authorized In House Bill; First Defense Plan Step
Protecting Coasts From Air Invasion Is Key To Defense
Hitler Removes Schacht As Reichsbank President; Suspends Refugee Talks
10 Of 13 Saved On Bermuda Plane Forced Into Sea On Hop From Here; Picked Up By Tanker After 10 Hours
Rescue Ship Due Here Today With 10 Saved From Plane; Search Ends For 3 Missing
Barcelona Placed Under Army Rule As Rebels Close In
Rebels Drive To Barcelona, Seize Airport, Shell City; Refugees Flee Northward
Quake Ruins 20 Chile Towns; Concepcion City Wiped Out; Loss Of Life In Thousands
Rebels In Barcelona Without A Fight; Hailed In Streets; Distribute Food; French Warn Italy On Her Demands
Roosevelt Lets France Buy Planes; Senate Inquiry On Policies Is Likely; Nazis Hint At New Demands By Hitler
Camberlain Says Force Will Unite Democracies; Senators Hear Gen. Craig
Weinberg Suicide; Accuser Of Hines Used Guard’s Gun
Hitler Demands Colonies, ‘Riches’ For Japan And Italy; Tells U.S. Not To Meddle
FEBRUARY
Roosevelt To Help Democracies Arm; Puts Our Defense Frontier In France; Tells Senators Of Dangers Abroad
Secrecy In Defense Policy Causes Stir In The Senate; Germans Attack Roosevelt
12 Dictators to Rule Britain in War, Each in a Self-Contained Region
Roosevelt Calls France Frontier Story A Lie; Denies Change In Policy; Attacks The Press; Secret Parley To Be Aired In Senate Debate
Peace Move By Loyalists Is Reported At Border; London As The Mediator
France Opens Her Border To Fleeing Loyalist Army; Azana Is On Way To Paris
Loyalists Modify Terms In Peace Talks At Border; Franco Bars Concessions
Loyalists To Continue War, Despite Loss Of Catalonia; French Warn On Intrigues
Madrid Makes Peace Move; France And Britain Prepare To Recognize Franco Regime
Pope Pius Is Dead At The Age Of 81; Cardinals At Bedside In The Vatican As End Comes In Sudden Sinking Spell
Body Of Pope Lies In State; World Leaders Pay Homage; Cardinals Prepare To Sail
Germany To Permit Jews To Re-Enter Trade Fields Until They Can Emigrate
Wallace Ridicules Rech ‘Aryanism’ In Talk On Lincoln
Hoover Warns New Deal Invites Inflation Danger; Party Rallies For 1940
Democrats Ask Roosevelt To Solidify Party For 1940 By Working With Congress
Rudich Dismissal Is Asked By The Amen Grand Jury; Calls Magistrate Unfit
German Envoy Urges Cardinals To Elect Pope Favoring Fascists
Roosevelt Tells Business No New Taxes Are Planned; Says Confidence Is In Order
Madrid Regime Asks Peace On Sole Basis Of Clemency; Defense Rushed By France
Minister Is Killed In Peru As His Coup Is Foiled By Troops
22,000 Nazis Hold Rally In Garden; Police Check Foes
Vinson Says Our Interests Link US To Britain, France; Commons Votes Arms Plan
Hitler Conveys to Chamberlain Pained Surprise at British Arming
Halifax Warns Axis Powers The Democracies Will Resist
Hopkins Declares Recovery Now Sought By Government With ‘All Vigor And Power’
Hines Found Guilty On All 14 Counts In Schultz Policy Racket Conspiracy; Jury Out 7 Hours; Bail Is Continued
Mayor Act To Put Capshow Off Bench For Link To Hines; Sees ‘Usefulness Impaired’
Supreme Court Outlaws Sit-Down Strikes, Upsets Labor Board Rulings In Three Cases; Hopkins Considers Wagner Act Amendments
MARCH
Mexicans Seize 8 In Nazi Spy Plot; Hunt Secret Radio
Franco Has Asked Italy To Recall Army In Spain, Bonnet Reveals In Paris
Pacelli Elected Pope On 63d Birthday; Named On 4th Ballot; Reigns As Pius XII; Expected To Continue Strong Policies
Pius XII Appeals For Peace In First Public Act As Pope; Sets Coronation March 12
Roosevelt Scores Return Of Religious Persecutions; Hughes Extols U.S. System
Gen. Casado Ousts Negrin; Heads New Madrid Council; Cartagena Revolt Quelled
Madrid’s Council Headed By Miaja; Combats The Reds
A.F.L. Rejects Plan By Lewis For New Labor Federation; Leaders Meet Roosevelt
Britain To Put 300,000 Men In France In Event Of War; U.S. To Study Neutrality Act
Agreements With Brazil Lift Trade Restrictions And Renew Debt Service
Germany Prepares To Act On Slovak Appeal For Aid As Prague Ousts Premier
Maija Fights Reds And Nationalists; Revolt Persists
Pius XII Crowned On Balcony Before Vast Roman Throng; 4-Hour Service Impressive
Hitler Reported Ordering Czechs To Set Up Three Independent States; Sends Troops Toward The Border
Troops Of Four Nations Contend For Ruthenia As Hitler Dissolves Czecho Slovak Republic And Makes Bohemia-Moravia A Protectorate
Hitler Follows His Troops Into Prague; Czechs Jeer The Nazis; New Regime Set Up; Hungarians Resisted In Carpatho-Ukraine
Slovakia Now Hitler ‘Protectorate’; London And Paris May Recall Envoys; Hungary Annexes Carpatho-Ukraine
Hitler Demands Trade Control Of Rumania; Chamberlain Bitter, Drops Appeasement; Welles Condemns ‘Wanton Lawlessness’
U.S. Raises Duties 25% On German Imports; Britain And France Protest Czech Seizure; Russian Backing Sought In Bloc To Aid Rumania
Rumania Accepts Hitler Trade Pact; Britain Is Sounding World Power; Soviet Note Denounces Czech Seizure
Britain Seeks Anti-Hitler Compact; Russia Proposes Nine-Power Parley; U.S. Won’t Recognize Czech Seizure
Lithuania Yields Memel To Hitler; Britain Presses For 4-Power Action; Fascist Council Backs Reich Policy
Hitler Sails For Triumph In Memel As Lithuania Signs Surrender Treaty; Poles Block London Four-Power Pact
Hungarians Invade Slovakia; Hint His Program Is Ended Is Cut From Hitler’s Speech
Slovakia Calls On Hitler For Help Against Hungary; Poles Bar 4-Power Accord
Hitler Assures Mussolini Of Reich’s Strong Support; Duce Defines Policy Today
Mussolini Invites France To Discuss Colonial Issues; Paris Disposed To Meet Him
French Bar Talk With Italy Pending Specific Demands; Germany Pressing Poland
Madrid Yields, Ending War; Victors Enter Unresisted; Republican Leaders Flee
Daladier Calls On Italy To Clarify Her Demands; Urges Anti-Aggressor Bloc
Britain And France Decide To Defend Poland With Armed Power If Germany Attacks Her; Act On Massing Of Reich Troops On Border
APRIL
Chamberlain Pledge Heartens Poles To Warn Reich; Rumania Gets Offer; Berlin Shocked, Hitler Replies Today
Hitler Dares Britain To Pick Fight; Chamberlain Asks Duce To Mediate; London Gives New Assurance To Poles
Armed Pledge To Rumania Expected Today By London; Beck Arriving For Parleys
Britain Offers To Assist Any Land Menaced By Reich; Would End State Of ‘Alarm’
Poles Agree To A British Alliance; Albania Threatened; Riots In Danzig; London Is Tense In Midst Of Rumors
Rome Hears Move On Albania Is Near; Italian And German Army Chiefs Meet; Axis Plans Warning To Democracies
Italian Forces Landing In Albania; Rome Reports Its Nationals Imperiled; Britain Offers Guarantee To Hungary
Albanians Resist The Invading Italians; Four Ports Seized; King Zog Offers Terms; British Protest; Berlin Backing Mussolini
Italians Take Tirana, King Zog Flees; White House Sees New Sharp Issue; British Studying Pledge To Greece
Britain Cautions Italians Not To Go Beyond Albania; Pope Hits Pact Violations
British Mediterranean Fleet Sails On Decision To Guard Greece, Turkey; Balkan Entente To Defend Frontiers
Britain Extends Defense Alliances; Poles Call Troops; Sofia Bans Nazis; Roosevelt Sees America Involved
Turkey Is Expected To Join The Anglo-French Alliance; Greece Is Holding Aloof
Britain And France Extend Guarantee To Rumania And Greece, Turkey Next; ‘We’ll Go Straight Ahead,’ Says Duce
Roosevelt Calls For Peace In Europe, Says We Will Defend All Americas; Britain Presses For Russian Accord
Roosevelt Asks Dictators For 10-Year Peace; Orders The U.S. Fleet To Return To Pacific; Berlin Sees Rejection; Incredible, Says Rome
Nazis Fearful Of Effect Of Roosevelt Plea In Reich; Skillful Reply Is Expected
Reichstag Will Hear Hitler Answer Roosevelt April 28; British Confident Of Turkey
Britain Would Help Dutch, Swiss And Danes If Attacked; Reich Fleet Sails For Spain
Roosevelt Says Liberals Are Sole Hope For Party; Tells Others To Get Out
Mussolini Derides Roosevelt Appeal; Hitler Parades Reich Might At Fete; Soviet Proposal To Britain Reported
Secret Turko-British Pact Indicated In Fleet Moves; Russia Seeks Triple Accord
Rumania In Reply To Reich Admits Lack Of Security; Other Nations Deny Fear
Britain Unexpectedly Sends Envoy Back To Berlin Post; Conscription Move Gaining
British Cabinet Agrees Unanimously On Conscription And May Tax Wealth; Truce Offer By Hitler Seen Possible
Britain Gets Huge Defense Budget; Conscription Will Call Up Millions; Hitler Snubs London’s Ambassador
Nazis Make 3 Demands On Lithuania To Increase Turnover Of Trade 25%; British To Conscript 200,000 Yearly
Roosevelt Asked Dictators To Confer With Him At Sea; Commons Backs The Draft
Hitler Says No To Roosevelt, Insists On Danzig; Scraps Polish, British Naval And Munich Pacts; Warsaw Defiant; Italy May End London Treaty
1,000,000 To See Fair Opening; President To Speak At 2 P.M.; Fleet Here, Visitors Pour In
MAY
President Opens Fair As A Symbol Of Peace; Vast Spectacle Of Color And World Progress Thrills Enthusiastic Crowds On The First Day
Hitler Assails U.S. Boycott; Appeals For Internal Unity; Poles Weigh Danzig Claim
Senators Fight To Hold Congress During Crisis Lest The U.S. Be Involved
Litvinoff Quits Soviet Post; Molotoff Foreign Minister; Britain For Pledge To Reich
Russia Switches Her Policy; Drops Collective Security; Foreign Capitals Puzzled
Beck Rejects All Of Hitler’s Demands But Would Negotiate On An Equality; Britain Opposes Soviet Alliance Plan
Peace Move By Pius XII Reported As His Nuncios Consult High Officials
Reich And Italy Announce Plan For A Military Pact; Danzig Nazis Weigh Putsch
Pope Pius Asks Five Nations To Confer In Vatican City; Reich, Britain Woo Russia
Powers Cool To Pope’s Plea; Danzig Showdown Expected; Britain To Be An Armed Camp
Russia Is Assured She Need Not Fight Until Britain Does
Chamberlain Warns Nazis Force In Danzig Means War; Soviet Still Wants Pact
British And Turks Proclaim Pledges To Aid Each Other
Program For U.S. In War Provides For 500,000 Men In The Aircraft Industry
Mussolini Declares War Unnecessary; Present Problems Do Not ‘Justify’ It; Roosevelt Studies Economic Parley
Senate Will Act On Taxes, Harrison Tells Roosevelt; White House Parley Lively
Roosevelt Urges Inquiry On Why Money Stays Idle; Says Recovery Is Retarded
King And Queen Welcomed In Colorful Quebec Rites; Empire Unity Is Stressed
One Dead, 180 Hurt In Palestine Riots Over British Plan
Franco Reviews 150,000 Troops; Rain Mars 5-Hour Madrid Parade
$150,000,000 Housing Voted As Legislature Adjourns; Budget Reduced $25,000,000
Pole Kills German In Danzig Disorder; Both Sides Protest
Axis Powers Sign Ten-Year Alliance To Remake Europe
59 Await Rescue On Sunken Submarine 240 Feet Down Near Portsmouth, N.H.; Contact Restored After 10-Hour Break
33 Rescued From Squalus By Diving Bell; 26 Others Feared Dead In Flooded Chambers; Survivor Tells Of Cool, Cheerful Discipline
No Hope For 26 In Squalus; Opening Of Hatch Reveals Water Fills Their Section
Divers Clear Way To Raise Squalus; Pontoons Tested
Hull For Repeal Of Arms Embargo; Drafts U.S. Policy
Reich Church Head Defied By Pastors
75,000 March Today To Honor War Dead; G.A.R. Rank Thinned
Nazis Seize Palace Of Reich’s Primate
JUNE
Russians Balk On Pact; Ask Anglo-French Pledge For All Baltic Neighbors
Manton On Stand Denies All Charges, Admits Gain Of $1,250,000 In A Year
Loss Of 86 In Submarine Feared As Tide Engulfs It; 4 Escape, Some Die In Effort
Judge Manton Is Convicted By Jury Of Selling Justice; Judge Martin Is Acquitted
Hitler Defiant Of Britain On ‘Encirclement Policy’; Likens Her Aims To 1914
Hague Ban On C.I.O. Voided By The Supreme Court, 5-2, On Free Assemblage Right
Hitler Hails Deeds Of His Men In Spain As Lesson To Foes
King Enters United States; Hull Greets Him At Niagara; Due In Washington At 11 A.M.
King And Queen Guests At The White House After An Impressive Welcome In Washington; George Hopes We Will Ever Walk In Friendship
City Ready To Greet King And Queen Today; They Pay Homage At Tomb Of Washington, Visit Congress, Leave The Capital At Night
3,500,000 Cheering New Yorkers Greet King And Queen; They Are Officially Welcomed At Battery And Fair, Visit Columbia, Drive To Hyde Park For Day’s Rest
King Departs For Canada; Attends Roosevelt Church And Eats Hot Dogs At Picnic
Drought Hits Near-By Areas Hard; Spring Rain the Least Since 1903
House Gets Neutrality Bill Favored By Administration; Arms Embargo Is Dropped
British Consider Reprisals For Blockade At Tientsin; All Concessions At Stake
Tokyo To Force Showdown On Concessions In China; Backs Army Over Tientsin
Britain Plans ‘Active Steps’ If Tension In Orient Grows; Warships To Run Blockade
British Hold Of Japanese In Clash At Shanghai Post; Tientsin Sees Long Siege
British Heartened On The Tientsin Issue; See Tokyo Pausing
Japanese Put Charged Wire Around British At Tientsin; Hull Defines Our Concern
Hull Protests To Japan On Kulangsu And Bombing; Action An Aid To Britain
Japan Orders U.S. Warship And Others Out Of Swatow; Yarnell Reported Refusing
U.S. Ships Ignore Japanese Demand; Hull Backs Stand
U.S. Gets British Rubber In Trade For Our Cotton; Seeks Deal With Belgium
Chamberlain Warns Reich Of British Military Might; Bars Japanese ‘Dictation’
Nazi Acts Viewed As Prelude To War
Britain Advances Navy Manoeuvres To ‘Danger Period’
Roosevelt Denounces Ban On Money Devaluing Power; Says It Aids Wall Street
Nazis Pouring Into Danzig From Reich To Join ‘Army’; Young Poles Also Active
Britain Is Ready For War, Halifax Warns Germany; Poles Would Resist Coup
JULY
Hitler Plans Danzig Visit As Step Toward Regaining The City In ‘Peaceful’ Coup
British Labor Bids Germans Resist Nazi Warlike Aims; France Cautions The Reich
Chamberlain Again Warns Reich Against Aggression, But Is Silent On Danzig
Reich Denies Aim To Force Danzig Issue With Poland; Chamberlain Cites ‘Influx’
Armed Forces Put At 10,000 In Danzig; Free City Is Calm
Roosevelt Dollar Control Restored By Senate, 43-39; He Maps Strategy For 1940
Frauds In City Sales Tax Bared With 5 Arrests; Chief Investigator Held
Senate Group Acts To Block Repeal Of Arms Embargo
90% WPA Shut-Down Here Threatened By A.F.L. Unions; Labor Unites For New Law
Nazi Leader Hurls Defiance In Danzig
Bills To Restore WPA Pay Are Offered In Congress; Thousands Back At Work
Senate Committee Votes For Delay On Neutrality; Roosevelt Will Fight On
Oustings By Italy An Anti-Spy Move; Anxiety Mounting
Trieste Leased By Reich For 10 Years, Swiss Hear; Troops Now Using Port
Roosevelt Asks Congress To Change Neutrality Act; Opponents Await Reaction
WPA To Drop 75,000 Here, Hire 42,000 On Home Relief; Move To Revise Law Ended
Japan Threatens Raid Into Siberia
Tyrolese Fight Evictions; 26 Are Reported Killed In Clashes With Fascisti
No Neutrality Revision This Session; Roosevelt Told By Leaders Of Senate In A Night Conference His Plea Fails
Names Of WPA Strikers Asked In Congress Inquiry; Links To Reds Are Sought
Inquiry Into Labor Board Voted By House, 254 To 134; Hatch Bill Is Then Passed
Revised Hatch Bill Passes Senate, Goes To Roosevelt; He Hits Neutrality Stand
War Games By Axis In Tyrol Forseen
Reich Now Admits Materials ‘Famine’
Britain Concedes To Japan Rights To Security In China; Denies Belligerent Status
Japan Blocks British Trade By Closing River To Canton; Hull Won’t Yield On China
U.S. Denounces Japanese Trade Treaty; Action Effective 6 Months From Now; Opens Way To Embargo On War Goods
Treaty Action Stuns Japan; Reprisals Hinted In Tokyo; U.S. Secrecy Irks London
Senate Economy Bloc Cuts Lending Bill By $850,000,000; Rejects Prevailing Wage
House Group Joins In Slash Of $850,000,000 On Spending; Dismissals By WPA Halted
Anti-British Drive Extended In China; Many Must Flee
AUGUST
3-Power Military Talks To Begin Now In Moscow; Spur To Political Accord
Lending Bill Is Killed In House, 193-166; Roosevelt Sees Recovery Retarded; Adjournment By Saturday Is Sought
$800,000,000 Housing Bill Faces Defeat As House Leaders Force Vote Today; President Warns On, Signs Hatch Act
Housing Bill Killed, 191-170, By House Economy Group; Quick Adjournment Sought
Congress To Adjourn Today; Deficiency Bill Increased By The Senate To $185,000,000
Congress Quits Sine Die At 6:35 P.M.; $119,000,000 More Voted For Crop Loans; Social Security Tax Cut $905,000,000
Japanese Destroy Two British Ships In Raid On Yangtze
Italy’s War Games End Abruptly With Mussolini Strangely Absent
Angry Reich Press Threatens Poland With Mailed Fist
Yugoslavia Bars Axis Plan To Use Her Material In War; Danzig ‘Plebiscite’ Tonight
Fate Of Hungary An Issue As Ciano Goes To Germany; ‘Protection’ Assured Danzig
Ciano And Ribbentrop Meet; Confer With Hitler Today; Yugoslavia Calls Troops
Hitler, Ciano To Continue Conference A Third Day; Call Problems Complex
22 Killed, 60 Hurt In Crash Of Speed Train In Nevada; ‘Sabotage,’ Coroner Finds
Axis Reported Asking Pope To Call Four-Power Parley; Other Negotiators Active
Axis Warns Danzig Issue Must Be Faced Promptly; British Bar New ‘Munich’
Germany Reveals Demands On Poland; Now Wants Both Corridor And Danzig; Press Asks Area Lost At Versailles
Reich Sees Polish Rebuff In Ignoring Of Its Terms; ‘Action’ A Matter Of Days
Reich Takes Over Slovakia; Puts Military In Control; Hungary Faces Nazi Crisis
Reich Calls Slovak Troops To Army On Polish Border; British Ministers To Meet
Poles Rush Troops To Face Germans; Pope Sends Peace Envoy To Warsaw; Berlin And Moscow Sign Trade Pact
Germany And Russia Agree On Non-Aggression; Ribbentrop Going To Moscow To Draft Pact; Berlin Sees Quick Showdown With Poland
Britain And France Stand By Pledge To Poles; Rush Plans For War; Warsaw Remains Firm; Elated Germans See Victory In Russian Pact
Germany And Russia Sign 10-Year Non-Aggression Pact; Bind Each Other Not To Aid Opponents In War Acts; Hitler Rebuffs London; Britain And France Mobilize
Hitler Acts To Take Danzig, Orders Army To Be Ready; Chamberlain Gets War Power; London, Paris Dark; Roosevelt Appeals To Germany, Poland And Italy
Hitler Reported Willing To Ease Demands On Poland; London Gets Terms Today; Britain And France Firm; Roosevelt Addresses New Peace Appeal To Germany
Hitler Demands Britain Abandon Polish Alliance; London And Paris Reported Rejecting Nazi Terms; Mobilizations Still Rushed; Nuremberg Canceled
Hitler Tells Paris He Must Get Danzig And Corridor; Berlin Thinks Door Is Left Open To Peaceful Solution; British Answer Today To Insist On Rights Of Poland
Hitler Gets British Note And Will Make Written Reply; Berlin Finds London’s Stand ‘Not Wholly Negative’; Tension Is Eased But Europe Remains Poised For War
New Hitler Note Keeps Negotiation Open; Berlin Hopeful For Peace, Slows War Moves; Commons Cheers Pledge To Resist Force
British Reply To Hitler Narrows The Issue To Free Negotiations With Poland Or War; Reich Organizes National Defense Council
SEPTEMBER
German Army Attacks Poland; Cities Bombed, Port Blockaded; Danzig Is Accepted Into Reich
Britain And France Send Ultimatums; Warsaw Calls Allies; Italy Neutral; Germans Attack Poles On 4 Fronts
Birtain And France In War At 6 A.M.; Hitler Won’t Halt Attack On Poles; Chamberlain Calls Empire To Fight
British Liner Athenia Torpedoed, Sunk; 1,400 Passengers Aboard, 292 Americans’ All Except A Few Are Reported Saved
French And British Attack Germans On Wide Fronts; 2 Reich Battleships Hit In Air Raid On Wilhelmshaven; Stories Of Athenia Rescues Told; U.S. Curbs Travel
Germans Shell Warsaw, Residents In Flight; U.S. Neutrality Proclaimed, Arms Embargoed; Markets Here Rise; Athenia Was Shelled
Poles Hold Germans In Battle For Warsaw; French Invade Reich; British Land In France; Roosevelt Plans Early Congress Session
Germans Rush Troops West To Meet French; Polish Army, Intact, Still Defends Warsaw; Submarines Sink Four British Freighters
Germans In Part Of Warsaw, Poles Are Resisting; French Drive On, Report Saarbrucken Surrounded; U.S. Proclaims Emergency To Protect Neutrality
Germans Try To Sweep Around Warsaw Defenders; French Advance Again; Goering Makes Bid To Paris; British Cabinet Preparing For A Three-Year War
Poles Repel Attacks On Warsaw; Nazis Report Trapping 2 Armies; French Shift Their Drive In West
Poles Halt Enemy On Wide Front; French Continue To Gain In West; Reich To Intensify Shipping War
Nazis Say Warsaw Is Encircled; Poles Assert Foe Is Hurled Back; French Drive On Saarbruecken
Germans Bombing Open Towns, Britain Threatens To Retaliate; Nazi Offensive Gains In Poland
Russia Threatens Poland As Her Defense Crumbles; French Capture Prisoners
Russia And Japan Agree On Armistice In The Orient; Large Scale Battle Developing On Western Front; Drive In The East Is Slowed; British Sink Submarines
Soviet Troops Marched Into Poland At 11 P.M.; Nazis Demand Warsaw Give Up Or Be Shelled; Fierce Battle Is Raging On Western Front
Russians Drive 40 Miles Into Poland, Defense Weak; Polish President In Rumania, Warsaw Holding Out; Britain And France, Concerned, Consult On Action
Soviet And Reich Forces Meet, Map Polish Partition; 500 Lost On British Airplane Carrier Sunk By U-Boat; French Advance Within Outworks Of The Westwall
Hitler Tells Allies It Is His Peace Or A Finish Fight; Britain And France For War Till Hitlerism Is Ended; Russian Navy Reported Blockading Estonian Coast
Nazis Concentrate Forces In West; Brauchitsch Arrives From Poland; Britain Reports Czechs In Revolt
Roosevelt Asks Congress To Repeal Arms Embargo; Hard Fight Indicated As 24 Senators Map Resistance; Rumanian Premier Assassinated; Nazi Coup Foiled
Dutch And Belgians Open Dikes Seeing Threat In German Moves; Poland Partitioned By Invaders
French Repel 3 Counter-Attacks; Advance A Mile In Sierck Sector; Mussolini Would Halt War Now
Nazi Guns And Planes Razing Warsaw; Half Of City Is In Flames, 1,000 Slain; British Expect New Reich Peace Drive
French Shell Reich Forts On Rhine As Nazi Troops Mass Near Basle; Soviet Army At Estonian Frontier
Russo-German Pact To Dominate Balkans Seen In Moscow Parley; France Puts Ban On Communism
Estonia Reported Ready To Yield As Russo-German Parleys Begin; Warsaw, A Shambles, Surrenders
Reich And Soviet Join For Peace–Or War; No Buffer State; New Pact Warns Allies; Estonia Gives Moscow Sea And Air Bases
Britain And France Spurn Nazi-Soviet Peace; Formal Offer By Mussolini Is Now Expected; Reich Hints Red Planes Will Attack In West
OCTOBER
Reich Threatens To Sink British Ships On Sight; Holds Defensive Guns Make Them Warships; Ciano Is Invited To Berlin; Reichstag Called
Churchill Bars A Hitler Peace; Britain Conscripts 250,000 More; Latvia To Get Russian Demands
Senate Opens Battle Over Embargo With 60 Believed Favoring Repeal; Germany Warns American Shipping
Chamberlain Bars Hitler Pledges; Says Threats Will Not Sway Allies; Nazis See In Talk Chance For Truce
Turkey Resisting Russian Pressure For Dominant Role In The Balkans; Hitler Reichstag Speech Tomorrow
U.S. Refugee Ship Will Be Sunk, Reich Says, Implying Allied Plot; Hitler’s Peace Terms Forecast
Hitler Demands His Peace Or A War Of Destruction; Allies Forecast Rejection, But Are Studying Terms; Russia Aloof, Reported Planning To Fortify Border
Roosevelt Cool To Mediator Role; Might Act Later If Sure Of Success; Britain Expected To Outline Terms
Soviet Agrees To Rush Goods To Reich As German Delegates Meet Molotoff; Paris Sees Hitler’s Peace Misfiring
Finland And Russia Massing Troops; Sweden Sees Threat, Mans Defenses; British Navy Fights Off Air Bombers
Daladier Bars Peace On Nazi Terms; Finland Mobilizes Her Baltic Fleet, Sends Civilians From Border Towns
U.S. Reported Joining 3 Powers In A Plea To Russia On Finland; Anglo-Soviet Trade Pact Signed
War In Earnest Unless U.S. Acts, Berlin Says, After Chamberlain Rejects Hitler Terms; U.S. Appeals To Russia; Finns Plan For Worst
U.S. Ignores Nazi Mediation Plea; Berlin Asks Soviet-Italian Talks; British Sink Three More U-Boats
U-Boat Sinks British Battleship; 396 Of 1,200 On Royal Oak Rescued; Soviet-Finnish Accord Held Near
Submarines Sink Three Allied Ships; Shelled Without Warning; 15 Lives Lost; Turkey Rebuffs Moscow Balkan Moves
Nazis Bomb Navy Base In Scotland, Hit Cruiser, Kill 15, Lose 4 Planes; Germans Gain In Moselle Thrust
Nazis Attack With 100,000 On West Front; Planes Raid British Fleet And East Coast; Turks Reject Soviet Terms, End Parleys
Roosevelt Bars War Submarines From Using U.S. Ports And Waters; Scandinavia Weighs Aid To Finns
Turkey Signs 15-Year Treaty With Allies; Berlin, Moscow And Rome Are Perturbed; Scandinavians Urge Finns To Compromise
Berlin Says War Is On To The Finish; Hitler Calls Three Envoys To Confer; Allies Plan For Expected Nazi Drive
Nazi Planes Attack Convoy, 4 Downed; Hitler Orders A New Drive On Ships; Calls Party Men; Russia Warns Turks
French Quit Warndt Forest; Hold Only A Few Outposts; British Rout Air Raiders
Nazis Seize U.S. Ship City Of Flint, Sailing Her To Murmansk, Russia; Soviet Interns German Captors
U.S. To Demand Soviet Release Ship; Finns Halt Moscow Negotiations; Ribbentrop Assails Britain As Foe
American Crew Safe On City Of Flint; Russia Frees Germans, Holds the Ship; Nazi Press Urges Bombing Of Britain
City Of Flint, Freed, Quits Murmansk; German Crew Reported In Command; Passenger On Her Tells Of Capture
Pope Condemns Dictators, Treaty Violators, Racism; Urges Restoring Of Poland
Soviet Insists Flint Sailed; Berlin Reports Conflicting; Czechs Riot, Many Are Held
Flint’s Route Held A Military Secret By Nazi Officials
Nazi Tortures Detailed by Britain; Concentration Camp Horrors Told
NOVEMBER
Molotoff Lays War To Allies, Berates US; Talk Angers Finns; U-Boat Attack Reported Off U.S.
White House Accuses Molotoff Of Meddling In U.S. Embargo Fight; No Trace Found Of Attacked Ship
House Dooms Arms Embargo, 243-181; $1,000,000,000 In War Orders Expected; Berlin Sees U.S. Taking Side Of Allies
Norway Interns German Crew, Frees Flint; Russo-Finnish Crisis Near; Embargo Repealed; Grew Threatens Economic Pressure On Japan
Roosevelt Establishes Combat Area; U.S. Nationals And Ships Barred In It; Reich Protest To Norway On Flint
Northeaster Pounds Coast Here; Rain Replenishes City Reservoirs
Reds Urge World Revolt, Include Reich As Capitalist; French Claim Air Victory
Democratic Sweep In City Election; Pari-Mutuel Amendment Is Adopted; California, Ohio Pension Plans Lose
Hitler Escapes Bomb Explosion By 15 Minutes; Six Killed, 60 Wounded In Munich Beer Cellar; $200,000 Reward Offered For The ‘Instigators’
Fatal Border Clash Stirs Dutch; Defense Measures Are Rushed; Major Nazi Offensive Forecast
Lowlands Tense, Foreigners To Leave; Hitler Paper Expects Decisive Blow; Finland And Russia Are Deadlocked
Pius XII Criticizes Lack Of Religion In Schools Of U.S.
Britain And France State War Aims; George Says Aggression Must Stop; Lebrun Insists Nazis Return Spoils
Reich To Reply ‘No’ To Peace Proposal; Assures Neutrals
500 Reported Lost As Oil Fire Sweeps Town In Venezuela
Policeman Kills Long Beach Mayor, Shoots Bodyguard
General Motors Is Found Guilty In Monopoly Case
9 Czech Students Executed; U-Boats Seen Aiding Russia Set Up Blockade Of Finns
Mine Sinks Dutch Liner In North Sea; 140 Lives Feared Lost, 260 Rescued; Nazis Impose Martial Law In Prague
Mines Sink Five More Ships, Four Owned By Neutrals; British Plan To Sweep Sea
6 More Ships Sunk; British Weigh Ban On Reich Exports
Britain To Seize Reich Exports; Cruiser Reported Hit By U-Boat; Two Britons Held In Munich Plot
Mine Sinks British Warship, 40 Lost; French Craft Destroys Two U-Boats; Netherlands Halts All Ship Sailings
Report Nazis Drop Mines From Air; 9 Ships Sink; Allies Down 13 Planes; Rumania Names Pro-French Premier
Mines Forced London Port To Close, Holding Ships Outside Till Cleared; Italy Joins Protests On Blockade
Nazis Bomb British North Sea Fleet; Report 4 Ships Hit, London Denies It; Japan Threatens Blockade Reprisal
Soviet Charges Attack By Finns, Who Defy Demand To Quit Border; Pilsudski And Armed Liner Sunk
Finns Offer Parley On Withdrawal; Soviet Urges Revolution In Helsinki; Rawalpindi Sunk By The Deutschland
Russia Scraps Pact With Finland; Three Border Clashes Reported; British Raid German Naval Base
Russians Start Their Invasion Of Finland; Planes Drop Bombs On Airfield At Helsinki; War Starts As U.S. Move For Peace Is Made
DECEMBER
Finns’ Cabinet Resigns As Soviet Bombs Cities; New Government Expected To Seek A Truce; Russia Seizes Port And Islands; 200 Are Killed
Soviet Sets Up Red Regime On Finnish Border; Finns Rally, Report Sinking An Enemy Cruiser; Roosevelt Condemns ‘Wanton’ Russian Attack
Finns Report Soviet Drive Halted; Red ‘State’ Meets Moscow Terms; Roosevelt Bars Planes To Russia
Finns Ask For Peace Negotiations; Say Mines Killed 1,000 Russians; British Airplanes Raid Helgoland
Russia Refuses Peace, Spurns League; Finns Check Invasion, Fortify Alands; British Ship Victims Of German Raider
Finns On Offensive, Raid Enemy Bases; Swedes Call Troops, Mine Sea Coast; U.S. Would Join In Denouncing Russia
Red Organ Calls On Rumania For Pact Similar To Those With Baltic States; Moscow Reports Break In Finns’ Line
Russians Blockade Finland; Balked At Mannerheim Line; Italy Warns On The Balkans
Kennedy Presents To President Plan To Use Idle Ships
Finns Hurl Back Russians In Attacks On Wide Front; Four More Ships Are Sunk
U.S. Gives Finland $10,000,000 Credits; Helsinki Appeals To World For Help; Disputes Soviet Claims Of Advances
League Calls On Russians To End War And Negotiate; Finns Hold Back Invaders
Russia Rejects League Demands, Presses Drive In Central Finland; Bremen Eludes Foe, Dashes Home
British Defeat Nazi Raider In All-Day Fight; She Runs To Monevideo With 36 Dead, 60 Hurt; U-Boat Sunk, Reich Cruiser Hit In North Sea
Uruguay Lets The Spee Stay For Repairs As British Mass Warships Off Montevideo; Finns Report Gains; League Drops Russia
Spee Must Go By 6:30 P.M. Tomorrow; Finns Report Suomussalmi Retaken; British Planes Raid German Bases
Spee Still In Harbor At Daybreak Although Ready For Dash To Sea; Reinforced Allied Fleet Awaits Her
Captain, On Hitler’s Order, Sinks Spee Off Montevideo After Debarking Crew; Finns Report 20,000 Russians Trapped
Air Fleets Fight Off Helgoland; German Cruiser Sunk In The Elbe, British Submarine Hits 2 Others
Liner Columbus Scuttled Off U.S.; Nazi Freighter Flees To Florida; Russians And Finns In Air Raids
Columbus Crew Held At Ellis Island; Captain Of Graf Spee Kills Himself; Tanks And Airplanes Attack Finns
Russians Retreat In Arctic From Finns, Cold And Snow; Raid Helsinki Hospital Zone
Finns Press Retreating Foe; Rome Hears Of Peace Talk; Nazi Fleet Reported At Sea
Taylor Named Peace Ambassador By Roosevelt To Work With Pope; Finns Victors On Central Front
Pope Offers 5 Bases Of ‘Just Peace’; Urges ‘Right To Life’ Of All Nations; Finns Drive Ahead On Three Fronts
Nation, At Peace, Unites In Thanks On Christmas Day
Finns Repel Foe In Karelia; Viborg Again Is Bombarded; Rumors Stir Russian Public
Finns Again Cross Border, Imperil Russian Railroad; Soviet Calls More Troops
Quake Casualties 110,000, Turk Investigators Say
3,000 Russians Die As Finns Beat Off Karelian Attacks
Finns Drive Russians Back Over Border For Third Time; Hitler Asks For Sacrifices
News source: New York Times
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