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WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today took personal command in the fight in Congress over his neutrality program as Senate isolationists claimed new recruits and said there would be no compromise in their battle against...
...Edmund ("Tiny") Ironside, came together with their staffs on French soil last week. The English Channel was closed south of the Downs by a minefield. Across it into France, General Sir Edmund delivered some 100,000 British troops to the land forces operating under General Gamelin's supreme command. At the same time the air chiefs met, Sir Cyril L. N. Newall and General Joseph Vuillemin. In the air the Briton is the boss, but in this War, land and air forces are integrated more closely than ever before. All the generals concentrated on a problem for which neither...
...into Poland, he had a great job to do. To munitions workers standing with outstretched arms in the shadow of long-barreled artillery, to Germans waiting at the radio all over the Reich, to listeners in countries at war with Germany or neutral, Adolf Hitler's second in command came bearing tidings of victory, offers of peace, warnings of struggle, and bad news...
...most news columns passion triumphed, while reason sat patiently wagging a finger on the editorial page. Typical was the tabloid New York Daily News. Like many another paper, the Daily News printed the French high command's terse, dry bulletins reporting the start of its drive against the German Westwall under headlines like a joyful yell...
Other correspondents may be lucky enough to send such stories of this war, but it is not likely, for, 24 hours after war began last week, censorship had clamped down over Europe. In Berlin the Army Command announced that no foreign correspondents would be allowed to stay at the front and that all those now in military areas must leave. War communiqués would be issued once a day. From time to time groups of correspondents would be taken "wherever activities were especially interesting." Berlin censored all dispatches, but correspondents reported no evidence that they had been suppressed...