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Adolph Hitler no longer was idolized as he was even a few months ago. The German people, expecting invasion, harried by bombs and grieving over the dead in Russia, resented the Führer's reluctance to visit stricken cities or the Eastern Front, his isolation in bomb-safe Berchtesgaden with chosen aides and such infrequent visitors as gaunt Benito Mussolini...
Shortly before noon, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, commander of U.S. forces in the Philippines, left his headquarters on the stricken island. Wainwright walked towards his conquerors (reported Nichi Nichi's correspondent), carrying a white flag. He "slumped into a chair . . . head held in both hands, his eyes staring at the ground." When the victorious Japanese commander entered the room, "Wainwright and his aides stood up at rigid attention and saluted." Wainwright said that "he had come to talk surrender." It was Corregidor...
...were on strike, called out by C.I.O.'s Retail Employes Union.* The union claimed that 4,500 of the 5,500 union-eligible employes had walked out. Nonstriking employes going through picket lines were given the "Chicago cheer" by strikers (see cut). Ward's was mum, but stricken. A.F. of L. teamsters, in sympathy with the strikers, refused to pick up or deliver to the stores. The U.S. Post Office withdrew 30 idling mail clerks who normally handle Ward's outgoing mail-order business, second biggest in the U.S. (Net mail-order sales last year...
Shortly after he seized power, poverty-stricken, landlord-ridden peons revolted. Tattered peasant armies marched on the capital. The theosophist met them with shot & shell, screaming "Communists! Bolsheviks!" The U.S. Government believed him, sent the U.S. cruiser Rochester up from Panama, loaded with marines. Two Canadian destroyers and a British cruiser also appeared. When they reached El Salvador, the theosophist reported that the situation was well in hand; he had "liquidated 4,800 Bolsheviks." The visiting forces did not interfere. Before Mexico's intervention halted the blood bath, about 15,000 peons had been slaughtered...
...Badlands, over the rolling plains of stubble wheat, and even in Watford City (pop. 1,087), there were still solid patches of snow. But the miracle had happened. Throughout North Dakota, the big thaw had come. The hard-bitten men who farm the northern tip of the onetime poverty-stricken U.S. "dust bowl" had survived a decade of dust, drought. WPA, grasshoppers, mortgages. Now, after a three-year spell of war and golden weather, they could afford a little fun in town...