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...outbreak of tribal warfare, after civil authorities withdrew from northeast New Guinea, threatened both Japs and the remaining white inhabitants...
Chicago's Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (The Red Network) Dilling sued her husband Albert, his lawyer and Walter Winchell for $1,000,000 damages. Grounds: Albert, in bringing a countersuit for divorce, had made charges against her which he later withdrew, but not before Winchell had broadcast them...
...when the Viceroy, following the Constitution, declared India in the war, the Congress forsook provincial self-government, withdrew its ministries, began demanding Indian independence as the price of war cooperation. Meanwhile India's second largest political party, Mohamed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League, loudly claimed that it could never submit to united Indian self-government unless it had 50% representation, since otherwise India's Moslems would be a permanent minority under the Congress-dominated Hindu majority. The Moslem League claimed heavy discrimination against Moslems, even atrocities, by Congress bureaucracies under the Act of 1935. The League began...
When MacArthur withdrew to Bataan he took with him enough of Manila's dismantled station KZRH to make, on reassembly, a 1,000-watt medium-wave transmitter. Bataan thus became a fairly powerful rebroadcast point for short-wave programs from the U.S. The Japanese confiscated all the Filipino short-wave receivers they could find; but to have confiscated other radios would have interfered with their own propaganda purposes. That suited Competitor MacArthur...
...present-day German U-boat fleet' whether British ships sail alone or are convoyed. . . . The truth is that the danger increases for neutral ships when they are members of a British convoy." But as U.S. strength showed up in British convoys, Karl Doenitz changed his mind, shrewdly withdrew a large part of his U-boat fleet into his native Baltic, emerged with a new, radical offensive technique known to the Germans as the Rudelsystem, to the Allies as the "wolf pack": a number of submarines attack the center of a convoy, preferably at night, loose torpedoes in every direction...