JANUARY
Finns Smash A Red Division; Halt Move To Cut Country; Nazi Drive On Britain Seen
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Finns Claim Capture Of Soviet Base; 26,000 Reds Reported In New Traps; U.S. Protests British Mail Seizures
Roosevelt Hopes To Keep US At Peace; Asks Taxes For Emergency Defense; Navy Wants War Power For President
Roosevelt Fixes The Outlay In ’41 Budget At $8,424,000,000; Asks $460,000,000 New Taxes
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Soviet Scores Allied Aid to Finns As Ruse to Embroil Scandinavia
Soviet Ski Attack Smashed By Finns In Fight For Salla
Italy Said To Have Pledged Aid To Hungary If Attacked; Finns Smash A New Division
Nazi Planes Attack 12 Ships, Wreck 3; 35 Dead In Flare-Up Of Sea Warfare; Chamberlain Forecasts Federation
British Fliers Trike at Helgoland; Reported to Have Hit Breakwater
2 Soviet Attacks Broken, Finns Say; Air Raids Continue
Russian Bombers Raid Finnish Cities In Mass Attacks
Helsinki Bombed As Soviet Presses Offensive In Air
18 Seized In Plot To Overthrow U.S.; Arms Found Here
Paris Warns Of Russo-German Drives In Scandinavia, Balkans And West; Sweden, Norway Protest Red Flights
Plan For Aid to Finns Stirs Senate Clash On War Loans; British Lose 3 Submarines
Russian Retreat In North Reported; Finns Start Drive
Finns Report 28-Mile Push, Ending Threat To Railhead; British Investigate A Blast
William E. Borah, Senator 33 Years, Is Dead In Capital
British Note On Mails Displeases U.S.; Embassy Warned On Public Reaction; Pope Sees No Chance Of Peace Yet
British Destroyer Is Sunk; Six Merchant Ships Lost; London Trade Cut Hurts US
U.S. Demands British Cease Long Detention Of Ships; Note Sees Discrimination
5th British Destroyer Sunk; Crew, 175 or More, All Lost
Nazi Chiefs Emphasize Offensive; Reported Rift Now Believed at End
Attack On Conduct Of War Forces Election In Canada; U.S. Limits Clipper Mails
Finnish Guns Trap 2 Soviet Divisions; Repel Relief Units
Fragments Of 4 Divisions Flee Finns In Ladoga Area; Soviet Dead Put At 5,000
Mass Shootings in Poland Laid to Nazis by Cardinal
Nazi Air Raiders Attack British Ships; Bomb 12 Or More, 20 Persons Killed; Soviet Planes Rain Bombs On Finland
Hitler Warns Of Total War; Now Extends Ire To France; Nazis Again Bomb Shipping
FEBRUARY
Chamberlain Asks Neutrals To Tolerate War Measures; Finns Report Town Retaken
Russians Launch New Drive In Karelia With 130 Planes, Armed Sleds, Smoke Screens
House Votes Big Farm Cuts Despite Roosevelt Protest And Pressure By Farmers
50 Finns Killed, 100 Hurt, In Wide Russian Air Raids; British Down 3 Nazi Planes
Japanese Bomb Rail Line In China Despite U.S. Stand
New Red Division Cut Up By Finns, Scandinavia Hears
2 I.R.A. Terrorists Hanged After Day Of New Bombings
HOLC Repossessed 27,754 Homes Of the 80,145 It Financed in State
Russians Report Capture Of 13 Mannerheim Forts; Turks Seize Nazi Shipyard
Roosevelt Sounds Neutrals On Peace, Sends Welles To The Belligerents; Finns Check Massed Russian Attacks
Roosevelt Flays Soviet Dictatorship; Says 98% Of Americans Favor Finns; Lewis Proposes A Labor Peace Plan
I.R.A. Crowd Fights Police In Belfast; Army Camp Raided
6,500 At Albany Tax Hearing Assail And Defend Budget; Economy Foes In Majority
Finns Pressed Back, Ask World Aid; Call Battle Worse Than World War; Senate Votes Bill For Helsinki Loan
Finns Admit Red Gain, But Line Holds; Men of 43 Called As Siege Goes On; Nazi U-Boat Claim Menaces U.S. Ships
Russians Drive Beyond Summa, Nearing Vital Roads To Viborg; Grave Finnish Losses Reported
Reds Take Towns On Viborg Railway; Sweden Rejects Finnish Call For Aid; Norway Bars British Seizing Nazi Ship
British Raid Altmark In Norway Waters; Free 326 Spee Captives; Nazi Wrath Rages; Reds Nearing Viborg, Repulsed In North
British Call Norway Remiss In Duty; Demand Explanation On Altmark; Reds Cut Of Karelian Coast Fort
6th British Destroyer Sunk, 157 Lost; Norway Defends Action On Altmark; Finns Crush Ladoga Soviet Division
Russians Claim Koivisto; 800 Planes Attack Finns; Chamberlain Rebukes Oslo
Democrats Agree Roosevelt Can Run If He Just Says So
Huge Soviet Drive Renewed To Crush Finns On Isthmus
Turks Declare State Of Emergency; Soviet Frontier Incidents Reported; Reds Intensify Drive Against Finns
Chamberlain Demands A New Order; Hitler, Defiant, Says Reich Can’t Lose; Finns Report Drive On Viborg Halted
New Dealers Hold Way Is Now Clear To 3d Term Draft
Welles Hands Mussolini Secret Roosevelt Message; Koivisto Lost, Finns Admit
Planes Renew Night Raid, Draw Fire Over Holland; Nazi Drive Seen In March
Palestine Curbs Jews’ Land Buying
MARCH
Russians Within A Mile Of Viborg; City Burning; Finns Are In Retreat; Berlin Eager To Greet Welles Today
Ship Reports U-Boat Attack In U.S. Zone; Reds Entering Viborg, Left Afire By Finns; Welles Told Nazi Aims, Sees Hitler Today
Welles Has Long Talk With Hitler; Berlin Atmosphere Is Less Strained; Russians Occupy Parts Of Viborg
108 Die As Nazi Plane Bombs A British Liner In Channel; Reds Circle North Of Viborg
Rome Note Defies Britain On Coal; Blockade Tested
British Seize 7 Italian Ships With Coal; Rome Is Stunned; Reds Thrust West Of Viborg
S.S. Queen Elizabeth Nearing City; Sweden Mediating In Finnish War, With Reds Asking All Of Karelia
Finns To Reject A Peace Of Defeat; Allies Fear Blow If Helsinki Yields; Swedes Consider Full Military Aid
Berlin Joins In Finnish Peace Moves, Seeks To Spur Italy In Coal Dispute; Allies To Intervene If Helsinki Asks
Britain Frees 13 Italian Coal Ships On Eve Of Ribbentrop Visit To Rome; Presses Scandinavia On Aid To Finns
Finnish Premier In Moscow, Denounced On Soviet Radio; Ribbentrop Sees Mussolini
Russia Reported Increasing Demands; Allies Offer Full, Quick Aid To Finns; Pope Cold To Ribbentrop Peace Plea
Moscow Announces Peace Treaty Signed; Finns Delay Ratification, Fighting Ends; Terms Give Big Finnish Areas To Soviet
Finns Lay Peace To Lack Of Help; Plan Scandinavian Defense Bloc; Allied Chiefs Criticized At Home
Army Of 100,000 Exiles on March As Sad Finns Leave Ceded Area
Rumania Reported Barring Nazi Plan To Pledge Borders
Roosevelt Gives Basis Of ‘Real Peace’ To Save Europe From Fear Of Arms; Crisis Is Near, Welles Hears In Rome
Hitler And Mussolini Conferring On Peace Or Move In The Balkans; Civilians Hit In Scapa Flow Raid
Nazis Report Soviet Joining Axis, But Italians Talk Only Of Peace; Vatican Reveals Hitler’s Terms
British Planes In All-Night Raid Bomb Great Nazi Air Base At Sylt; Peace Hope Dies, Welles Leaves
Daladier Out, Reynaud Seeks Cabinet; Nazis Bomb Convoy, Result Disputed; New Soviet Border Claims Reported
Cromwell Rebuked for War Talk; Hull Warns Him Not to Do It Again
British Submarine Sinks German Ship
FCC Stays Start in Television, Rebukes R.C.A. for Sales Drive
Sun-Spot Tornado Disrupts Cables, Phones and Telegraph for 5 Hours
End-The-War Move Appears in Britain
Russians Recall Paris Ambassador On French Demand
CCC Funds Raised $50,000,000, NYA $17,450,000, As The House Drops Retrenchment Drive
Norway Interns Stranded U-Boat; Netherlands Downs British Bomber
U.S. Brands As False Nazi Documents Charging We Fostered War In Europe And Promised To Join Allies If Needed
Russell Is Ousted By Court As Unfit; Board Called Lax
APRIL
Allies Determined To End U.S. Trade That Helps Reich
Strike Is Put Off By Transit Union, Waiting For Lewis
Roosevelt Leading Garner 2 To 1 In Wisconsin Primary; Dewey Ahead of Vandenberg
Reynaud Asserts Allies Will Win; Bars ‘Phoney’ Peace With Hitler
Chamberlain Feels ’10 Times’ More Sure Of Stifling Reich
Soviet Is Warned Britain Will Bar Inroad In Finland
25,000 in Army Day Parade Here; Nation Observes Entry Into War
Norwegian Waters Mined By Allies; Aim Is To End Flow Of Ore To Nazis; U-Boat Sinks Norse Ship, 12 Dead
Germans Occupy Denmark, Attack Oslo; Norway Then Joins War Against Hitler; Capital Is Reported Bombed From Air
Naval And Air Battles Raging In North Sea; Norway Reported Asking Peace With Nazis Though Allies Rush Aid; Sweden Is Neutral
Nazis Driven From Bergen, Trondheim; Allies Battle Enemy Ships In Skagerrak, Force Way To Oslo, Order Germans Out
Sea-Air Fights Continue Off Oslo, Trondheim; German Troops Try To Cut Norway In Two; 18 Nazi, 4 British Ships Sunk, Allies Report
British Cut Nazi Sea Lanes With Mines; Norway Reports Gneisenau, Emden Sunk And German Drive To Interior Halted
British Sink 7 Nazi Destroyers At Narvik; Germans Threaten Death If Norse Resist; Roosevelt Condemns War On Scandinavia
British Tell Norway Army Will Aid Her; Norwegians Firmly Resisting Germans; London Reports The Scheer Torpedoed
British Land In Norway, Capture Narvik; Germans Extend Occupation In The South; Rumani Bars Cereal Exports To Reich
Germans Cross Mid-Norway By Ruse; British Battling 2,000 At Narvik, Reported In Contact With Norwegians
British Fleet Shells Stavanger; Nazis Driven From Narvik Area; Hull Gives Our Stand On Indies
British Reported In Trondheim Fight; London Claims Sinking Of Transport; Axis Boasts Of Closer Military Ties
British Win In Clash Near Trondheim; Allies Reported Landing 3 Divisions; Berlin Expels Norwegian Minister
50,000 Allied Troops Advance Against Germans In Norway; Nazis Report A Cruiser Sunk
Scalise, Union Head, Seized In $100,000 Extortion Plot
Germans Smash Norwegian Towns In Air Blitzkrieg Like That In Poland; Surprised By Allied Swift Advance
Two Battles Develop In Norway; Germans Report Allies Trapped; New Navy Clashes In Skagerrak
Nazis Gain In Two Norse Battles, Take Steinkjer, Advance In South; Allies Seize Battalion At Narvik
Nazis Still Advancing In Norway; Planes Cut Allied Supply Lines; U.S. Applies The Neutrality Law
Germans Break Through At Roeros But Meet Resistance Farther North; Allies Land More Troops And Planes
Nazis Defend Invasion Of Norway; Merely Beat British In, They Say; Scale Mountain To Flank Allies
Allies Check German Drive; Fierce Fight Near Dombaas; Both Sides Landing Troops
Allies Hold Dombaas Line Against 5-Way Nazi Attack; Reported Landing More Men
MAY
Nazis Report Dombaas, Stoeren Taken; Allied Landing Base Pounded By Planes; British Shipping To Quit Mediterranean
Norse Hold Roeros And Tynset; British Planes Bomb 3 Airports; Duce Denies He Is Entering War
British Yield Southern Norway To Nazis; Evacuate Aandalsnes; Norse Fight On; Allied Warships Rushed To Alexandria
Allies Quit Namsos, Move North; Norse Ask Trondheim Armistice; U.S. Acts To Avert Spread Of War
British Battleship And Cruiser Sunk By Planes Off Namsos, Germans Say; Allies Intensify Attack On Narvik
Battleship Sinking ‘Untrue,’ London Retorts To Berlin; Germans Fly Toward Narvik
Pope Reported Seeking Aid Of Roosevelt To Limit War; 3 Allied Destroyers Sunk
Admiral Keyes Leads In Attack On Chamberlain In The Commons; Wider War Power For Churchill
Chamberlain Upheld In Commons 281-200; London Thinks Cabinet Shifts Are Near; Roosevelt Denies A Peace Offer To Duce
Nazis Invade Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg By Land And Air; Dikes Opened; Allies Rush Aid
Dutch And Belgians Resist Nazi Drive; Allied Forces March In To Do Battle; Chamberlain Resigns, Churchill Premier
Germans Claim A Liege Fort, Gain In Holland; Rotterdam Fights Parachutists, Fires Rage; Allies Bomb Krupp Works And Rhine Areas
Germans 13 Miles Past Liege In Flank Drive; Claim To Have Crossed Holland To North Sea; Great Battle Nears As Allies Pour In Forces
Germans Gain In Savage Attacks In Belgium; Reach Rotterdam, Cutting Holland In Two; French Meet Nazis In Clash Of 1500 Tanks
Dutch End Resistance Except In Zeeland; Nazis Take Sedan, Strike At French Line; Suffer Heavy Losses In Furious Attack
Great Battle Fluctuates On 60-Mile Front; Nazis Gain On Meuse, Allies Counter Attack; Roosevelt Again Calls On Italy To Keep Out
German Drive Is Slowed On Belgian Front; Planes Bomb Units That Pierced French Line; Roosevelt Asks Billion Fund, 50,000 Planes
Nazis Pierce French Lines On 62-Mile Front; Take Brussels, Louvain, Malines And Namur; Washington Speeds Its Big Defense Program
French Check Drive, Germans Swing To West Toward The Channel Ports; Capture Antwerp; British Bomb Big Hamburg-Bremen Oil Stores
Fierce Battle Of Tanks Rages At St. Quentin; Weygand Supplants Gamelin As Allied Chief; Churchill Warns Blow At Britain Is Coming
Nazis At Peronne In Drive Toward Channel; Aim To Cut Off British Retiring In Belgium; French Say They Hold Vital Points In North
Nazis At Channel, Trap Allies In Belgium; Cross Aisne River 60 Miles From Paris; France Can’t Die, Reynaud Tells People
Lull In Nazi Drive; Allied Defense Stiffens; Arras Retaken; Heavy Fighting At Cambrai; British Conscript Labor And Wealth For War
Allies Press Drive To Trap Nazis In Salient; Germans Attack Boulogne, Move On Calais; British Planes Pound Reich, Blow Up Train
Allies Cut Third Of Way Into German Salient; Battle Of Infantry; Guns Pound 20-Mile Gap; Nazis Outside Calais; Wide British Spy Hunt
Germans Push Drive To Trap Allies In North; Take Ghent, Vimy; Press On Calais, Boulogne; French Still Fight In Gap; 15 Generals Out
Allies Repulse Savage Attacks, Lines Hold; Admit Loss Of Boulogne; Nazis Claim Calais; Defense Of Britain Entrusted To Ironside
Leopold Order Belgian Army To Quit; Allies Forced Back In Flanders Pocket; French Gain In Attacks On The Somme
Allies Fight On As Flanders Trap Tightens; Germans Think 500,000 Of Foe Escaped By Ships; French Increase Pressure Along The Somme
Allies Abandoning Flanders; Flood Yser Area; A Rescue Fleet At Dunkerque; Foe Pounds Port; One Force Cut Off From The Sea As Lille Falls
British, French, Belgians Arriving In England Under The Fire Of Fighting Ships And Planes; New British Army Joins French On The Somme
JUNE
75% Of B.E.F. Reported Safely Out Of Flanders; Allies Attack On Somme, Win Abbeville Area; Roosevelt Warns War Imperils Whole World
Germans Bomb Rhone Valley And Marseille; Dunkerque Holds Hout; Fighting Along Somme; U.S. Is Studying Nazi Threat In South America
Germans Again Bomb Southern France; Dunkerque Holds Off Assault By 200,000; 2,684 Americans Sail Home On Two Ships
200 Planes Drop 1,100 Bombs On Paris, Kill 45; Swift Reprisals Forecast In Allied Capitals; Nazis Prepare Army For New Drive In France
Churchill Pledges War Till Empire Ends; Air Fleets Raid Reich And French Cities; Italy Hesitates As Roosevelt Acts Again
Nazis Attack French On A 120-Mile Front; Troops Hold, Tanks Trapped, French Say; Our World War Arms To Go To The Allies
Germans Gain At Ends Of Allied Front; Paris Reports Resistance Points Holding And Hundreds Of Tanks Put Out Of Action
Weygand Withdraws French Advanced Posts; Main Battle Line Holds In Savage Fighting; All-Day Attempt To Cross The Aisne Repulsed
French Falling Back On 60-Mile Front As Nazis Hurl 20 New Divisions Into Fight; Cost In Life Is Enormous; Carinthia Sunk
Nazi Tanks Now Within 35 Miles Of Paris; French Counter-Attack On Aisne Front; Norway’s Army Gives Up; Battle At Sea
Italy At War, Ready To Attack; Stab In Back, Says Roosevelt; Government Has Left Paris
Germans At The Marne, Paris Barricaded; British Raid Libya, Italians Bomb Malta; U.S. Closes Mediterranean To Our Ships
British Rush Reinforcements To France As Germans Press Paris On Three Sides; Italian Areas Are Heavily Bombed Again
Bullitt Reports Nazis Inside Paris Gates; Reynaud Asks U.S. For ‘Clouds Of Planes’; British Give French New Pledge, Rush Aid
Germans Occupy Paris, Press On South; Capture Havre, Assault Maginot Line; French Army Intact; Spain Seizes Tangier
Germans Claim Break In Maginot Line; Take Verdun; Italy Opens Drive On Nice; U.S. To Quicken Aid; Reds Seize Lithuania
Reynaud Resigns, Petain Is Now Premier; New Cabinet Considers Fate Of France; German Troops Gaining On All Fronts
France Asks Peace, But Is Fighting On; Hitler, Duce Meet Today To Set Terms; British Stand Firm For War To A Finnish
Axis Chiefs Set Terms To Crush France; Her Warships, Planes Leave Homeland; Huge U.S. Navy, National Service Planned
France Reported Rejecting Harsh Terms; Government May Leave; Britain Bombed; U.S. Warns Dictators On Colonies Here
France Gets Terms At Compiegne Today; Knox And Stimson Are Named To Cabinet; Compulsory Service Bill Before Senate
Hitler Demands Full French Surrender; Bordeaux Considering ‘Yes Or No’ Reply; U.S. Outlines Economic War For Americans
French Sign Reich Truce, Rome Pact Next; British Bomb Krupp Works And Bremen; House Quickly Passes 2-Ocean Navy Bill
France Yields Fleet Under Armistice, Gives Up West Coast, Half Of Country; Britain And Petain Regime In Open Break
France Signs Italian Terms, Fighting Ceases; Russo-Rumanian Clash Reported By Hungary; Republican Plank Demands That We Avoid War
Hoover Bids For Nomination To Fight New Deal; Stronger Anti-War Plank Put In Platform; Italy To Occupy Areas In France And Africa
Republicans Adopt Preparedness Platform, Oppose War Intervention; Begin Nominations; British Troops Raid Enemy Lines On Channel
Republicans Nominate Wendell Willkie For The Presidency On The 6th Ballot; Rumania Gives Up Bessarabia To Russia
Republicans Name M’Nary For Vice President; Willkie Aims At Unity, Defense And Recovery; Russians Invade Rumania, Hungary Threatens
Russia Limits Rumanian Invasion; Axis Aid To Bucharest Reported; Balbo Killed, His Plane Shot Down
JULY
Russians Battle Retiring Rumanians; Land Tanks From Air In Occupation; Chamberlain Denounces Peace Talk
Rumanians And Hungarians Clash; Bucharest Renounces Britain’s Aid; Soviet Troops Reach New Frontier
British Raid Kiel Navy Base; German Planes Retaliate; Tension In Balkans Eased
British Forcibly Seize French Warships; U-Boat Torpedoes Prison Ship, 1,068 Lost; German Airplanes Bomb Britain All Day
British Seize Or Sink Bulk Of French Fleet; Resisting Units Defeated In Furious Battle; Bomb Found In British Hall At Fair Kills 2
Germany Rejects American Warning On Monroe Doctrine As Pointless; France Ends Relations With Britain
Roosevelt Urges Monroe Doctrines For European And Asiatic Continents; British Planes Bomb The Dunkerque
Roosevelt Tells Farley His Stand On Third Term Under Pledge Of Secrecy
France to Be Fascist State; Laval, Weygand In Power; Wide Air Raids On Germany
British And Italian Navies Clash; Planes Fight In Mediterranean; French Give Up Alexandria Fleet
100 Planes Clash In Battle Over A Convoy In Channel; Fight Off Italy Indecisive
Hull Warns Nazis To Keep Hands Off The Pan-American Parley In Havana; Massed German Planes Raid Britain
Four Divisions Of National Guard To Be Called For Active Service; Nazis Intensify Air Drive On Britain
Rome Claims British Fleet Is Split, Malta Now Useless; London Sees Air War Failing
Churchill Says British Gird For 1942, Will Fight Even If London Is In Ashes; R.A.F. Beats Off Nazi Dive Bombers
Democrats Are Not ‘War Party’, Convention’s Keynote Declares; Roosevelt ‘Draft’ Move Growing
Roosevelt Leaves Third Term To Party; Releases Delegates For A Free Choice; Move To Draft Him Is Set For Tonight
Roosevelt Renominated On First Ballot; Strict Anti-War Platform Is Adopted; No Army Abroad Unless U.S. Is Attacked
Roosevelt, Accepting, Feels He Must Serve With Others In Crisis; For Military Draft; Wins Fight For Wallace As His Running Mate
Yield Or Face Ruin, Hitler Demands; London Is Scornful Of His Threat; Italian Cruiser Sunk; Wide Air Raids
British Beat Off Mass Raids By Swarms Of Nazi Planes; R.A.F. Bombs German Bases
6 British Planes Battle 80 Of Foe Attacking Convoy; 3 Baltic States Join Soviet
Hull Asks Pan-American Trusteeship Of Europe’s Colonies In Hemisphere; British Rebuff Hitler, Defy Threats
Havana Parley Drafts Plan For Taking Over Colonies, Threatened From Abroad
46 Killed In Palestine Raid; R.A.F. Widens Drive On Reich; Nazi Torpedo Boats Routed
Embargo Put On Oil, Scrap Metal In License Order By Roosevelt; French Ship Sunk, 350 Drowned
Nazis Smash Half A Convoy With Planes, Torpedo Boats; British Hold Rumanian Ships
Havana Parley Reaches Full Accord On Colonies, Trade And 5th Column; Argentina Accepts Hull’s Program
Berlin Sees Drive On Britain Matter Of Days, If Not Hours; Rail Traffic In France Is Cut
British Repel Mass Air Raids Over Dover, Down 20 Planes; Bomb Cherbourg Oil Tanks
Britain Tightens Blockade To Cover All Of Continent; Fliers Again Smash At Reich
AUGUST
Planes Clash Over Britain; Two Ships Fight Off Brazil; Axis Hints At Invasion Delay
Aerial Warfare Slackens But Each Side Raids A City; Molotoff Sees U.S. In War
Port Of Hamburg In Ruins, 100 Cities Hit, London Says; Nazis Claim Two Submarines
Japan Protests British Arrests And Oil Curb By United States; R.A.F. Continues Raids On Reich
British Fliers Bomb Troops And Barges Along Channel; Blast Oil Plants In Reich
Senate Committee, 13 To 3, For Draft Calling Up Men From 21 To 31 Years; Roosevelt Asks Stricter Spy Laws
Italians Push Into Egypt And British Somaliland; R.A.F. Raids Hamburg, Kiel
Italians Deep In Somaliland After Taking Three Towns; British Raid Paris Airdrome
53 Reich Planes Shot Down In Raids By 800, British Say; Nazis Report 12 Ships Sunk
Senate Opens Debate On Draft Bill; Opponents To Press Volunteer Plan; Speed On Taxes Urged To Aid Defense
Hoover Asks British Agree To His Feeding War Victims; R.A.F. Bombs Channel Island
400 Nazi Planes Bomb British Coast; 60 Reported Lost In All-Day Attack; Berlin Says 89 Of Foe Were Downed
Nazis Intensify Air Raids On Britain As 500 Planes Pound At Strongholds; Blitzkrieg On, London Press Warns
Nazi Air Fleet Pounds At Britain; R.A.F. Strikes Back At Foe’s Bases; Greece Rejects Italian Demands
British Seek Parachute Invaders Reported Sent As Suicide Squads; R.A.F. Bombs Big Plants In Italy
1,000 Nazi Planes Raid Britain, 144 Shot Down; Croydon Airport, London Dock Area Bombed; British Offer US Navy Bases For Destroyers
London Area Bombed In Rush Hour, Many Dead; Nazis See Worse To Come, Claim Air Control; British Air Fleets Attack 13 Enemy Centers
R.A.F. Bombs Big Nazi Plants; Raids On England Renewed; Reich Declares A Blockade
600 Nazi Planes Raid London Area Again; 140 Downed; R.A.F. Attacks Channel Bases; U.S. And Canada To Join In Defense Plans
British Yield Somaliland To Italy; R.A.F. Again Blasts At Milan, Turin; Lull In Air Raids Over England
U.S. And Britain In Accord On Bases; Churchill Hopes To Buy Destroyers; British Bomb Kiel And 30 Air Centers
Nazis Cut Mass Air Attacks To Small Hit And Run Raids; Ships Bombed In Irish Sea
London Residential Area Bombed; Nazi Big Guns Shell Channel Coast; Emergency Steps Decreed In Greece
Roosevelt Asks Draft Bill Enacted Within Two Weeks; Debate In Senate Continues
London Bombed in 4 Areas, Fire Near St. Paul’s; Navy Ports Hit In Wide Massed Air Attacks; Bermuda Great Sound Offered For U.S. Base
Berlin Raided By British Planes; Nazis Continue London Attacks; Lose 39 Planes In Day’s Air Duels
Nazis Pound At London Area In Long Raid; Kill 50 At Folkestone, 3 By Bombs In Eire; Our Draft Bill Speeded, With 900,000 Limit
Rumania Fights Reds And Hungarians; Axis Masses Troops, Orders Parley; R.A.F. And Nazis Make Bombing Raids
London And Berlin Bombed In Raids Covering Wide Area; Balkan Clashes Continuing
Berlin Admits Eight Areas Damaged, Oil Works Hit By British Bombers; Soviet Warns Rumania On Clashes
Axis Forces Rumanians To Yield Half Transylvania To Hungary; Berlin Bombed, London Area Hit
SEPTEMBER
Nazis Pound London In All-Day Raids, Bomb Northwest City For Six Hours; R.A.F. Planes Renew Attack On Berlin
Children’s Ship Torpedoed But Refugees Are Saved; London And Berlin Raided
Nazis Raid Britain In Waves; 42 Shot Down, London Says; R.A.F. Pounds Germany, Italy
Roosevelt Trades Destroyers For Sea Bases; Tells Congress He Acted On Own Authority; Britain Pledges Never To Yield Or Sink Fleet
Hitler Threatens To Raze Cities In Reprisal For British Bombing; R.A.F. Fires German Forest Plants
King Carol Of Rumania Abdicates In Favor Of His Son Prince Michael; London Fights 7 1/2-Hour Night Raid
German Planes Raid London All Day; British Bomb Berlin, Starting Fires; Carol Is In Flight, Riots In Rumania
1,500 Nazi Planes Bomb London; Industry And Services Damaged; R.A.F. Scores Many Hits In Reich
Mighty Nazi Air Fleets Again Bomb London; Docks And Plants Hit, Fires Rage, 400 Dead; Goering Directing ‘New Phase Of The War’
Center Of London Battered By Heavy Bombs; R.A.F. Wreaks Havoc In 3-Hour Raid On Hamburg; Big Guns Wage Duel Across English Channel
British Bomb Berlin, Hit Reichstag Building And Other Landmarks In Center Of The City; Germans Pound At London In 8-Hour Attack
Britsh Attack Nazi Craft In Channel; Both London And Berlin Bombed Again; Conferees Agree On 21-35 Draft Age Limit
Italian Attack On Egypt Reported Under Way; London ‘Curtin Of Steel’ Again Balks Nazis; R.A.F. Bombs Berlin, Bremen And Channel Ports
Five German Bombs Hit Buckingham Palace In Day And Night Of Air Terror; Lords Also Hit; R.A.F. Pounds Nazi Bases; Italy Masses Troops
Improved London Defenses Repel Nazi Raids; R.A.F. Attacks Bases; Italy Advances In Egypt; Congress Votes Conscription, Age Limits 21 To 35
British Down 185 German Planes In Day Of Air Fury, London Says; R.A.F. Again Bombs Nazi Bases
London Unleashes Fiercest Fire Yet As Nazi Bombs Rock City 10th Night; R.A.F. Hammers At Invasion Bases
Gales Scatter Nazi Channel Fleets; R.A.F. Fights 200 Planes Over Coast; Italians Thrust Deeper Into Egypt
Big R.A.F. Fleets Take Fight To Nazis; Night Raids Kill Ninety In London; Axis Is Applying Pressure To Spain
Nazis Again Raid London By Night; R.A.F. Bombers Set Havre Afire; U.S. May Use British World Bases
R.A.F. Bombs Dortmund-Ems Canal; Nazis Attack London Again At Night; British Rout 200 Planes In Day Fight
R.A.F. Blasts Military Objectives In Reich, Belgium, Holland, France; London Is Bombed After Quiet Day
Ship Torpedoed, 83 Children Lost; 210 Others On Way To Canada Die; Indo-China Invaded By Japanese
British Ships Attack Dakar In French Africa; De Gaulle And Troops Prepare To Seize City; R.A.F. Bombs Berlin, Pounds At Channel Bases
British Shell Dakar, French Bomb Gibraltar; London And Berlin Under Heavy Air Attacks; Indo-China Still Fights, Japanese Move Fleet
Britain Abandons Three-Day Siege Of Dakar; R.A.F. Fires Calais, Bombs Berlin For 5 Hours; Nazi Fliers Attack London, Bristol Damaged
U.S. Embargoes Scrap Iron, Hitting Japan; British Ready To Bomb Berlin Nightly; Reich, Italy, Spain Sign Compact Today
Japan Joins Axis Alliance Seen Aimed At U.S.; Roosevelt Orders Study Of The Pact’s Effect; British Down 130 Raiders, Blast Nazi Bases
Axis Defines Sphere For Russia; Nazis In 4th Week Of London Raids; R.A.F. Batters Base In Brittany
R.A.F. Fires Plant, Raids Berlin; Nazis Meet Fierce London Barrage; Axis Seeks Formula To Get Spain’s Aid
OCTOBER
R.A.F. Raiders Over Berlin Five Hours; London Parries Four Nazi Air Attacks; New Berlin-Moscow Talks Forecast
R.A.F. Blasts At Big Guns On Channel; Berlin Raided; London Has Quiet Day; Spain Not Joining War, Rome Reveals
R.A.F. Bombs Berlin And 20 Towns; Light London Raids Test Defense; Nazi-Led Drive In Egypt Foreseen
Hitler And Mussolini Meet Today; Chamberlain Out In British Shuffle; R.A.F. Causes Blast At Krupp Plant
Widening Of War Area Is Expected As Hitler And Mussolini Confer; London Fights Longest Day Raids
R.A.F. Blasts Channel Ports; Nazis Bomb Central London; Axis Weighs French Peace
R.A.F. Starts Fires In Reich In ‘Master Plan’ Of Havoc; Gale Balks London Raids
Berlin And London Both Raided Again; U.S. And Britain Sounding Out Russia; Nazi Troops Take Up Posts In Rumania
U.S. Prepares For Crisis In Orient; British Defy Japan, Will Aid China; 100 Areas In England Hit In Raids
Smashing Raids Hit 50 Areas In London; R.A.F. Blasts Naval Bases, Krupp Plant; U.S. Adds To Fleet; Tokyo Sees No Crisis
Balkans Tense As Nazis Move Down Danube; Sofia Mobilizing; U.S. Freezes Rumanian Funds; London Hammered By Bombs; St. Paul’s Is Hit
Fleet And R.A.F. Raid Cherbourg; Wide Damage In Reich Admitted; Nazis Rush More Men To Rumania
Russians Mass At Frontier; Nazi Troops Fill Bucharest; R.A.F. Batters French Coast
U.S. Leasing Bases In Brazil And Chile; American Oil Is Moved To Singapore; Rome Reports British Cruiser Sunk
London Is Rocked By Heaviest Raid; R.A.F. Keeps Berlin Awake Six Hours; British Exodus From Rumania Begins
Soviet Not Told Of Nazi Balkan Move; R.A.F. Fires Reich Oil; London Pounded; 3 Italian Destroyers Sunk By Ajax
Millions Register In City And Nation; Draft Roll Completed Without Hitch; Figure Here Is Estimated At 991,000
Trucks Race Up Burma Road To China As British, Defying Japan, Open Route; Speedy Nazi Planes Stab At London
Invasion Effort Foiled, British Say; Axis Demands On Greece Reported; Japanese Planes Bomb Burma Road
Balkans Report Massing Of Troops By Turks, Russians, Germans, Greeks; British Act To Bar Indies Oil To Japan
British Bomb And Shell Nazi Bases; Italians Attack Anglo-U.S. Oil Field In Persian Gulf In 2,800-Mile Flight
R.A.F. Bombs Berlin And North Italy, Sets Line Of Fires On Channel Coast; Churchill Asks French To Aid Britain
Hitler Meets Laval For Secret Talk; Tie With Axis Reported Discussed; R.A.F. Bombs Hamburg Warship Yards
Hitler And Franco Confer; Vichy Will Not Yield Fleet, But May Give Bases To Axis
French To Give Axis Land And Bases; Hitler Sees Petain, Lines Up Spain; R.A.F. Pounds Berlin In 2 Night Raids
U.S. Asks France To State Her Aims; Hopes She Won’t Join War On Britain; R.A.F. Pounds Berlin; London Hit Hard
Americans To Hold French Areas If Vichy Aids Germany Militarily; Italy Accuses Greeks Of Attack
Italy Invades Greece, Starting Balkan Drive, As Athens Rejects A Three-Hour Ultimatum; Metaxas Asks Greeks To Fight To The Death
Italians Reported Checked, Bomb Greek Cities; British Navy Moves; R.A.F. Raids Skoda Plant; Roosevelt Says Opposition Hindered Defense
Italy Reports 40-Mile Gain But Greeks Say Line Holds; 6 Nazi Naval Bases Bombed
Roosevelt Says He Seeks To Supply 12,000 Planes, Other Arms, To Britain; Willkie Doubts His Anti-War Pledge
NOVEMBER
Willkie Warns U.S. Of One-Man Rule, Citing President’s ‘My Envoy’ Remark; Wallace Charges Nazi Pressure Here
Roosevelt Charges ‘Unholy Alliance’ Of Radicals-Reactionaries For Rival; Willkie Sees Public Fooled On Planes
Roosevelt And Willkie End Campaign; President Asks Vote Of Confidence, Rival Sees ‘Battle Of America’ Won
Willkie Would Bar 3d Term By Law; Roosevelt Asks Time For All To Vote; Both Will Appeal To Nation Tonight
Roosevelt, Willkie In Final Pleas As Nation Goes To The Polls Today; Record Vote Of 50,000,000 Indicated
Roosevelt Elected President; Certain Of 429 Electoral Votes; Democrats Keep House Control
Roosevelt Has 468 Electoral Votes; Democrats Increase House Strength; Washington Greets President Today
Italians Launch Offensive; Drive Back Greeks On Coast; British Raid Berlin Suburb
Berlin Reports 15 To 20 Ships Sunk In Atlantic Convoy By Nazi Warships; Greeks Halt Italian Drive On Yanina
Greeks Report Division Destroyed, Ending One Italian Drive On Yanina; De Gaulle Men Battle For Gabon City
De Gaulle Victory In Gabon Reported; Greeks Counter-Attack On 3 Fronts; Nazis Intensify Air Raids On London
British Shoot Down 13 Italian Planes Near London And Raid Danzig By Air; Greeks Report Panic In Italian Lines
Hitler Takes Three Hours With Molotoff In Berlin; Rome Sees Soviet In Axis
British Smash 12 Italian War Vessels; 3 Of Duce’s 6 Battleships Listed As Hit; Greeks Drive Foe Into Albanian Hills
Greeks Start General Advance; Vichy Protests Nazi Expulsions; Molotoff Quits Berlin With Plan
Coventry Wrecked In Worst Raid On England, With 1,000 Casualties; British Smash Berlin Rail Depots
Italians Abandon Koritza, Key Base, In Heavy Fighting, Athens Reports; Nazi Ship Scuttled, 3 Flee To Port
Greeks At Gates Of Koritza After Taking Near-By Peaks; R.A.F. Again Pounds Nazis
Bulgarian King Secretly Seeks Hitler; Berlin Forecasts Action In Balkans; U.S. And Britain Agree On Base Sites
Birmingham Attacked All Night In A Raid Like That On Coventry; Hungary Due To Join Axis Today
Nazis Continue Battering Midlands; British Bomb Great Skoda Works; Axis Signs Up Hungary; Rumania Next
Dies Links Nazi Agents Here To Propaganda, Espionage; Strife With Japan Sought
Greeks Take Koritza, Pursue Italians; Turks Defy Axis, Order Martial Law; Nazis Bomb British Midland Towns
Rumania Signs Alliance With Axis; Greeks Press Victories In Albania; Lothian Says British Need U.S. Credits
Greeks Pursue Foe, Take Key Towns; Nazis Warn Athens On Spreading War; R.A.F. Sets Fires In Berlin, Raids Turin
Bulgaria Remains Out Of Axis Front; Italians Flee Argyrokastron Base; Nazis In Waves Bomb Port Of Bristol
14 Ships Land Fresh Italian Troops To Stem Continuing Greek Advance; U.S. To Study British Financial Needs
Iron Guards Slay 64 Carol Aides; Rumania Reported Near Chaos; British Admit War Industry Lags
British Report 6 Italian Warships Damaged; Nazis Bomb Liverpool; City Afire, They Say; Greeks Claim New Victories As Foes Retreat
Rumanian Army Fights Iron Guard; Hundreds Killed In Fascist Revolt; Britain Presses Drive Against Italy
DECEMBER
Greeks Take Pogradec, Italian Base; Bessarabia Declared To Be In Revolt; Nazi Raiders Pound At Southampton
Southampton Bombed Again; Greeks Press Drive To Sea; Antonescu Warns Hungary
U-Boats Attack Eight Ships In Convoy; Nazi Air Raid Fury Turned On Bristol; Greeks Break Foe’s Line, Capture 5,000
Cabinet Studies Fiscal Aid To Britain; 18 Ships Sunk By U-Boats, Say Nazis; Greeks 1 1/4 Miles From Porto Edda
Greeks Drive Foe From 2 Key Points; Nazi Fuel Stores Impared By R.A.F.; British Loan In View, Jones Indicates
Fleeing Italians Fire Bases; Ruhr Area Raided 12 Hours; Commons Bars Peace, 341-4
Badoglio Quits Italian High Command; Clash With Fascist Policy Indicated; British Cruiser Hit, Routs Nazi Raider
Roosevelt Pledges Aid To Greece; New Shake-Up In Italian Command; R.A.F. Pounds 15 German Air Bases
Greeks Capture Argyrokastron; Major Air Assault Hits London; Nazi Freighter Caught Off Cuba
British Seize 1,000 Italians In Sudden Thrust In Egypt; Greeks Win New Positions
British Ring Foe’s Base In Egypt; Seize 4,000 And Down 22 Planes; U.S. Curbs More Exports To Japan
British Take Sidi Barrani Base; Seize 3 Generals, Trap Thousands; Rome Press Warns ‘Hidden Foes’
British Capture 20,000 In Egypt; Harry Foe By Land, Sea And Air; Valona Port Crippled, Say Greeks
British Thrust Italians Into A Trap; Greeks Take Coast Town Of Palermo; Hitler On Trip, May Meet Mussolini
Laval Ousted, Reported Detained; Flandin, Also Pro-Nazi, Gets Post; British Press Italians In Libya
Details Of Laval’s Plot Disclosed; Sought Dictatorship, War On Britain; Hard Fighting On Libyan Frontier
Britain Requests Our Financial Aid; Libyan Fort Taken, Troops Push On; Hitler Envoy Asks Vichy To Explain
Roosevelt Would Lend Arms To Britain; Vichy Gets Hitler Terms, Laval In Parley; British Storm Bardia, Take More Forts
Italians Retreat In Libya As British Encircle Bardia; Laval In Paris With Nazis
Nazis Flying Italians To Albania; Ring Around Bardia Is Tightened; British Order 60 Freighters Here
British Fleet Raids The Adriatic, Bombards Valona Unchallenged; Italians Still Resist In Bardia
Germany Warns U.S. On Ship Seizures; Washington Calm Over War ‘Threat’; Halifax Chosen To Succeed Lothian
R.A.F. Raids From Norway To Italy; Graziani Explains Defeat In Egypt; Eden Succeeds Halifax In Foreign Post
Churchill Bids Italy Oust Mussolini; Greeks Take Another Costal Town; Germans Rain Bombs On Manchester
Reich Said To Plan Two-Day Air Truce If British Also Refain From Raiding; Nazi Chiefs Warn Invasion Is Coming
150,000 Nazis Reported On Move To Check Soviet, Attack Greece; Air Truce On; Germans Lose Plane
Roosevelt To Specify Aid To Britain; Nazi Troops Tighten Rule In Rumania; Russia Also Reported Massing Men
Nazis Again Bomb London Heavily; Rush Air Specialist To Rumania; Raider Shells An Island In Pacific
R.A.F. Blasts Invasion Ports With 100 Bombs A Minute; Greeks Sink 3 Italian Ships
Roosevelt Calls For Greater Aid To Britain As Best Way To Halt Dictators And Avert War; Nazis Set Big London Fires; Sea Raider Routed
Roosevelt Confers On British Aid, May Also Help Greece And China; London’s Historic Sites In Ruins
News source: New York Times
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