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FRIDAY, AUG. 9, 1940

DEMOCRATS 0. K.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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CAMPAIGN BOOKS

Flynn Reveals Plans for Sale With Paid Advertising as Usual to Raise Funds Despite Jackson's

Proposal They

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 tional Committee will sell ca

Be Outlawed.

| (U. P.).—The Democratic Nampaign books containing paid

advertising as usual lo raise 1940 funds despite the proposal

of Attorney General Robert lawed.

Charles Michelson, national commit

tor, revealed the campaign book program at a press conference arranged for Edward J. Flynn, who will succeed James A. Farley as committee chairman Aug. 17.

Campaign Books Ready

Mr. Flynn invited reporters to a conference here shortly after Mr Farley's resignation as Postmaster General was announced in Hyde Park, N. Y., vesterday. Mr, Farle} leaves the Cabinet Aug. 31 The incoming chairman referred campaign book questions to Mr Michelson after saying, in response to a question, that the Hatch “clean politics” act apparently worried Republicans more than Democrats. “The campaign books are ready to g0 out,” Mr. Michelson said. “Will they carry advertising as usual?” he was asked. “More than usual,” Mr. Michelson replied, pointing out that the Hatch Act did not forbid such fund raising efforts and that the book was planned and the advertising sold long before Mr. Jackson, this week, proposed that the act be amended to forbid them. The books will be sold by the committee for 25 cents each. “It has been called to my attention,” Mr. Flynn remarked, “that the Elwood notification committee for Willkie for President is putting out a book at $1000 a page.” Chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr of the Republican National Committee immediately denied that the “Elwood notification committee” was issuing a campaign book with advertising at $1000 a page. Mr. Martin said the committee, Mr. Willkie and all other Republican groups were avoiding solicitation of adver. tising “in any kind of book or publication.’ Mr. Martin said a local committee in Elwood had undertaken to obtain advertising for a ‘souvenir booklet” but that the project had been stopped and Mr. Willkie had repudiated it

Drive Starts Aug. 17

Mr. Flynn said the campaign would begin so far as he was concerned on Aug. 17 when he succeeds Mr. Farley. Except for attending notification ceremonies Aug 29 in Des Moines for Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, President Roosevelt's running mate, he said he would conduct the campaign from New York. Mr. Flynn told questioners that there had been an organized telegraphic campaign to obtain the nomination of Wendell L. Willkie for President at the Republican national convention but would not commit himself that the organization was the same which opposed the public utilities holding company bill “Our trouble is getting money for a campaign,” Mr. Flynn said. “All the sources of money are in the hends of Republicans.” Asked why there was money difficulty now in contrast to 1936 when the Democratic war chest was fat, Mr. Flynn replied: “In 1936 the Republicans did not have a public utility man for a candidate.”

Predicts New York Safe

He said New York State was sure to go for Roosevelt-Wallace ticket but added that he prefered not to discuss other states until he had conferred with leaders. “Whom do you regard as Democratic leader of Pennsylvania?” Mr. Flynn was asked. “I don’t know,” he replied. "The state leaders generally are the state chairman, the national committeeman, the national committeewoman and the assistant state chairman.” ‘Ever hear of (Senator) Joe Guffev.” the questioner continued. “Everyone has,” Mr. Flynn replied, without committing himself further. Mr. Farley's resignation from the Cabinet signed and sealed his political di‘orce from Mr. Roosevelt,

Tuttle Invited to Reply

To Coercion Charges

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P) The Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee today invited C

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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MEETINGS TODAY

Exchange Club, Hotel Severin, noon, Optimist Club, Columbia Club, noon, Reserve Officers’ Association, Board of Trade, noon. Phi Delta Theta, Canary Cottage, noon Delta Tau Delta, Columbia Club, noon. Kappa Sigma, Canary Cottage. noon. Military Order of the Purple Heart, national convention, Clasprol Hotel, all day Marion County 4-H Club Show, Indiana state fairgrounds, all day American Communications Hotel Washington, 8 n. m.

MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore, fs not responsible for errors 'n names and addresses.) , McIntosh, Blanche M. Ragle, 19,

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INDIANA GUARD EXPECTS CALL

38th Division to Get Three | Weeks Training Now; Pre. dict Full Year Soon.

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that a mobilization call will be sent out for the 38th Division until tall. President Roosevelt has said he | plans to call four Guard Divisions | immediately and the remainder of | (he troops later as new equipment | rolls off production lines to equip the troops. | Despite the inadequacy of equip-! ment now in the hands of the | Guard-—-on the basis of new Army mechanization standards -— Gen. | Tyndall said he considers the In-| diana troops at a peacetime peak | in equipment and training.

Tyndall Retires in May

If the 38th goes into training for a vear, it probably will lose its Division commander next spring by retirement Gen. Tyndall, ranking major general in the Guard and regular

about, showing five German planes falling

according to the British-censored caption.

5 Planes Dive—in Flames SENATE OPENS

BITTER DEBATE ON DRAFT PLAN

U. S. Freedom Is in Peril, Sheppard Says in Urging Training for Millions. (Continued from Page One)

age range. As the bill now stands about 4.500.000 men without dependents or other reason for exemption would be subject to call. All amendments will be opposed by the proponents. The most serious fight is expected to come on an amendment by Mr.

privates to $30 a month and lower the enlistment period from three years to 12 months. Mr. Wheeler contends that this modification would result in a which would obviate any need for a peacetime draft. Tt is the opposition's alternative to conscription. Senator Bennett CC. Clark (D.

vote for the bill regardless of how it was modified by amendments, It is “wrong in principle” he said. | House leaders planned to expedite

[the guard mobilization bill. Chair-

t Happened 7 Years Ago BRITISH TROOPS

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Wheeler to raise the pay of Army |

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rush of recruits

Mo.) announced that he would not |

man Andrew J. May, of the Mili-|

{tary Affairs Committee said he (would attempt to substitute the Senate-approved version of the measure for that now pending before his committee. The substitu tion, he said, would enable the committee, which meets today, to send the bill to the floor for action on

Monday. Woodring, Pershing Decline

Mr. May disclosed that two witnesses invited to testify before his committee on the conscription bill, have declined. Gen. John J Pershing, head of the American EXpeditionary Force during the World War, sent his regrets because of illness, | Pormer Secretary of War Harry 'H. Woodring, who believes a vol-

Acme Telephoto

This photograph is the “one in a thousand” cameramen dream luntary, one-year enlistment period, Tt is an exclusive and spectacular picture, cabled from London,

{with the pay of privates increased,

in flames over the English Channel,

offered no explanation,

Army, must retire May 2, 1941, when he reaches the age of 64. Gen Tyndall organized the Guard in Indiana. It is expected that one of the two Division brigade commanders may | succeed him. The brigade com- | manders are Brig. Gen. Ellerbe Carter of Kentucky and Brig. Gen. D. Wray Deprez of Shelbyville, Official Guard figures show a total of 5341 enlisted men, 429 officers and six warrant officers Guard officers said today that at vresent approximately 40 per cent of the enlisted men are married, and if the guard were called out now it might lose about half of its strength because of dependents, jobs or the failure of men to pass the more stringent physical examination for active Army service. No married man can resign now before his enlistment expires unless a single man can take his place. Officers have orders to keep up the quota. Officers estimated that 30 days from now the loss of men because of the listed reasons would be much less than 50 per cent. One company commander reported he now would lose only two men out of 84; another company announced | it would lose 32 men.

Opinion Is Divided

Personal enthusiasm of enlisted men toward the year mobilization ranges from hot to cold. On the whole married men are the least enthusiastic while younger single men favor it ‘T've got a wife and Kids to support,” seems the commonest complaint against the plan. Several admitted that “someone's got to do the fighting,” and one said, “It'll make a man of you." One guardsman said he would not mind going if “IT were certain of getting my job back, and had some way to support my wife.” Another was more emphatic. Asked if he would answer, “Hell, no.| I don't want to go. I've got a wife and Kid and they'd be penniless, otherwise I'm in favor of it.” One guardsman with two echildren looked at it another way. Hep favored mobilization because “TI only get six months work out of the year anyway.”

Today's War

By.

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British coastal communications cent The attacked convoy was n

TAX ACTION AT ONCE IS SOUGHT

Aid Sees 9 Billion Hike In Debt Limit.

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ure that out of 4000 planes provided for in a $400,000,000 appropriation, the Army has signed con- | tracts for only 33. The fault, he said, is not with the Army, and industry has shown no tendency “to hold back on the Army,” Rather, he explained, the aircraft industry must expand to meet the defense needs, and Congress should provide a program for amortization of the expansion investments. Assistant Secretary of Navy Lewis Compton asked that Congress sus=pend the Vinson-Trammell Act limiting profits on airplane and warship contracts. Profits under existing law are now limited to 8 per cent. Mr. Compton related instances in which defense preparations had been hampered by the limitations. Mr. Compton, speaking for the Navy, asked that an amortization plan be provided for plant expansions required to produce warships and arms, He suggested that the armotization could be spread over a five-year period, and said it should be expanded to cover contracts already effective where the contract ors have taken the risks of financing required expansion. William S. Knudsen, defense production chief, said the commission had started the expansion program hy letting contracts on a fixed be basis, but had been unable to give contractors assurance their expansion costs could be amortized. The commission believes, he said, it will “have fairly clear sailing” aftersthe amortization legislation is projected.

Tuttle, vice president and treasurer of the S. S. Kresge 10-cent store chain, to reply to charges that his company coerced. employees to contribute to Wendell Willkie's campaign fund | Mr. Tuttle, the alleged author of |a letter to employees inviting them | to contribute, will be invited to ap[pear before the committee by Chairman Guy M. Gillette. If he refuses to appear, Gillette said, “we will

OFFICIAL WEATHER

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FORECAST --Inereasing bv occasional light not much

ngh H. Ogle, 28, 728 N. Past, Miller, 20. 728 N. East James C. Skalla, 22. 605 E. 9th; Byrd, 19, 1357 N. Gale Troy Totty, 31. 22':; S. Strong, 30, 2215 Morgan Delbert E. Prince, 21. 2314 W. McCarty, June E. Miller, 18. 816 Stillwell, Robert H. Shull, 23, 1310 Lillian Keeney, 19, 1116 W. 31st George M. Smith, 23, 1397 Russell; L. Allee, 19, 1523 Laurence.

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J. W. T. MASON

United Press War Expert

Yesterday's attack by German airmen and armed launches

Morgenthau Urges Action: ki

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(bv the Senate after Administration forces narrowly prevented adoption | of an amendment by Senator Alva ({B. Adams (D. Colo.) which would {have restricted the use of the Guard to the United States, its territories and possessions. In its present against form the bill would permit Mr. h Secondary phase in the battle of Roosevelt to send the men anywhere e of the Channel, and like previous in the Western Hemisphere Mr

Moves

Channel offensives by German aviators, the purpose is to disorganize Adams amendment lost, 38 to 39

ering around London. amendment—per-

One important

ot bringing supplies from overseas, be- pitting Guardsmen and Reservists

cause Channel ports are no longer with dependent wives or children used as import terminals. The ves- ity resign within 20 days after sels were distributing goods from ppactment of the law—was apother British proved unanimously.

yorts, I an emergency this FD, R. Says Overseas rail Odds Are 100 to 1

freight could be carried by hracks. put to do HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 9 (U. so would place a P.).—President Roosevelt strain on the assurance today that the chances British land are 100 to 1 against American regutransport sys - lar troops or National Guardsmen tem 4 {ever being assigned to active servSo. the risk ice outside of the continental United has been under. | States or its possessions. taken for some | The President gave a press contime of utilizing ference warning, however, that re-

coastwise shipping, despite the dan- strictions on the National Guard gerous proximity of German bases bill such as were rejected by the along the French coast 77 | Senate yesterday might impose tem-

The Germans are hoping to make |POrary. paralysing DR fie . foreign policy of the United States the Channel so unsafe for ‘coastal bi time of great emergency transport that domestic distribution 2! Some time of § methods will have to be revised.! The Channel offensive has no bearing on the ability of Great Britain to keep open her trans-ocean lanes for her food ships. This is a dif-| ferent problem facing the German, strategy of blockade. The engagement vesterday Shows | ‘yy, problem of how to sell a botthe British have devised a concen- 1. ¢ paar for a dime with the new trated air defense for Channel con- sofanee tax added is worrying the voys making German offensives in liquor control boards and brewers this area very costly. ' of Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Whether the cost is too great for ajreadv Ohio and Michigan brewthe results will be shown by future ops have proposed an eight-ounce German action. Tf there is nO pottle to replace the present 12‘quick resumption of German Of- sunce bottle. fensives over the Channel, the con-| The Ohio Liquor Control Board. clusion must be that the British| pefore acting on the proposal of defense has been found too effec- their brewers, decided that the tive. three states should act together on British figures show 400 German the matter if they act at all. planes were engaged with a loss of | A conference of the boards of the 60. It has been shown in various three states will be held in Detroit ways since the beginning of the war next week to study the situation that while the British conceal at| ‘Hugh Barnhart, chairman of the times announcements of individual Indiana ‘Alcoholic Beverages Comships that have been sunk, their mission, said there had been little statements of aggregate casualties pressure as vet from Indiana brewusually seem factual. ers for the smaller bottle, which If it be true that the Germans would be only two ounces bigger lost 60 of a total of 400 planes, this than the present soft drink bottle. corresponds to 15 per cent of effec-| Fe pointed out that since the new [tives killed in a land battle. No! defense tax, which added about a commander could afford a continu- third of a cent to a bottle, went {ation of such slaughter. The loss into effect July 1 beer prices have to Germany must be measured gone up in most of the states. Beer more in terms of trained airmen which formerly was sold at a dime than actual planes. a bottle is now being sold at 15 The Germans may have been us- cents or two for a quarter in many ing their massed attack also to Dlaces. gain experience in organizing a similar major air offensive against SUMMER SCHOOL POPULAR British land objectives. It is diffi-| BOULDER. Colo. Aug 9 (U. P) cult, however, to carry through an'_Twe Rocky Mountain oolleges— ‘attack of this size because once the (the Universities of Colorado and planes are in the air there can Wyoming—showed a marked “back be no central command to direct /to school” movement during the the course of battle. The Germans summer terms. Officials reported jare trained more to follow orders that all-time registration records (than to act on their own initiative. for both institutions were smashed. |

Mr. Mason

NEW TAX MAY GUT BEER BOTTLES! SIZE

| attention

would provide sufficient manpower, |

The mobilization bill was passed |

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RENRERN Not EN At! STAR

Willowdean Huffman--still battling 77-year-old traffic injuries,

One day seven years ago the of the public was di= rected to an auto accident that happened on the South Side In which 6-vear-old Willowdean Huffman, 1011 Bellefontaine St, was injured Those injuries still aren't healed. Willowdean’s left leg now is in a cast after an operation,

Mystery Grows in 'Slugging'

the second performed as an afters math of the crash. Willowdean isn't eomplaining. Fact is, she has a great deal ot praise for Riley Hospital where she has been treated. Her leg will be out of the cast in a few weeks and everyone hopes that then, after seven vears, the traffic injury will be corrected.

Of Stewardess in Clouds

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and addresses, to go their way who left the plane been questioned, however, Officials American Airlines, Inc. operators of the plane, had asserted that the stewardess, Rosemary Griffith, 24, had been found unconscious in the women’s lounge. Thev permitted no outsiders to talk to her in a local hospital, but her as saving that a man had entered, demanded the key to the baggage compartment, then slugged her before him. On the floor, before she lost consciousness, she swallowed the Key to be sure that he wouldn't get

and permitted them Some passengers, here, had not

United Press from a postal

reporters learned inspector and from John Oman II, of Nashville, that Miss Griffith was found not in the women's lounge but in the baggage Mr. Oman said his son, Lieut, John Oman III, had been a passenger on the plane and had

she could see |

seen the girl in the baggage com- |

partment. Mr, Oman III had gone to the military maneuvers at Camp Selby, Miss., and was not immediately available for comment. In Memphis, Roy Mitchell, assistant operations manager of the airlines, said it was possible that Miss Griffith had been found “partly in the ladies’ lounge and partly in the baggage compartment” because the two doors adjoined. There was no explanation of how

the baggage compartment door could |

be unlocked after she had swallowed the key to keep it from being unlocked or what caused her to be-

lieve that it would be better for her |

to swallow the key than run the slightest risk of it falling into unauthorized hands. Mr. Mitchell said the compartment contained only passengers’ baggage and “local” mail destined for

MOTHER GRIEVES FOR DAUGHTERS AT JAIL

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were both 16, but weren't twins. Their mother settled that this morning when ste said one was 18 and the other 17. The age of the other girl is still a mystery. She says she was born in Kentucky and the birth will have to be checked there. The mother in the hall told Sergt. Weddle: “T've pleaded with those girls to stay home. I've told them they'd get into trouble. Their brothers and sisters are good. They've helped me talk to them. I've told them they'd enc up in the Girls’ School.” Sajd Sergt. Weddle: “Madam. there's only one thing I can see will do any good-—that's send them to the Girls’ School.” The girls will be kept in the Juvenile Detention Home and will have to appear in Juvenile Court to face charges of burgalry, police said.

By MAJ. AL WILLIAMS Times Aviation Editor

The delay between the fall of |

|down materially in the case of the {new tiny subs. Expert opinion is convinced that the German produc-

{France and the real beginning of | hon pan called Jor Hanae ol lthe Battle of England is being at~ | tleSe nasty little undersea wasps.

tributed to all reasons except what It Is also the conservative opin'T consider the real one. {ion that this production has been

It is my suspicion that the Ger. | Dehind schedule and that deliveries Imans fully appreciate the vast, "rc OW beginning to flow. |gamble ahead of them. The other| COermany's land warfare has been ‘gambles, behind them now, were Pased on co-ordination between land efforts that could have been 8nd air units. The invasion of But the coming contest | England involves the third factor

checked. lis the struggle for empire and the Of sea units, I believe this cam-

destiny of Europe. It is a struggle | Paign will be a three-way affair— that cannot be undertaken hap-|laNG, sea and air—and their comhazardly. And knowing something | Plete co-ordination involves a stagof German military thoroughness 8ering effort that would dwarf the 'by this time, my belief is that we imagination of a Jules Verne.

lcan outline reasons for the launch-| The British themselves are amazed at the concentration of German

ling of the attack against England. | German motor torpedo boats are units on the Norwegian coast, havbeginning to show in the water ing anticipated that the concentra[sardine submarines—much smaller French, Belgian nnd Dutch coast{than the orthodox types—which|lines. The faint outlines of the

around England, as are also the tion would be exclusively on the have been turned out in great plan of attack are begining to show |

'eount for the thrust

German Attack Waits on More Tiny Subs, } Al Williams Says, Fearing Britain's Fall

against Scotland. Naturally, the continental bases will strike against the east,

extending around to the southwest.

The vulnerability of Ireland will undoubtedly attract quick seizure of strategic points to the west of Eng-

[land. Meanwhile the air and subsea

destruction of British shipping continues at an alarming pace. German air raids must be raising cain with the mass production of British industrial centers. Every airraid alarm means a cut in manhours, and expensive time delays in the operation of steel foundries— where cooled slag and banked fires mean clipped production schedules. The heckling air raids soon become routine, and the establishment of any kind of standardized condition is just the prelude sought by an enemy that counts so heavily on surprise, Once it starts, I fear that England, attacked on all sides—on the

| pered :

Memphis—unregistered mail whose contents would be known only to the mailers, Woodrow Woods, taxi driver, told reporters that he drove a nervous man” from the airport to the railroad station soon after the plane, with the unconscious girl, arrived here Wednesday night. The man said he was taking a train to Birmingham, Airline officials said they “knew” this man. They did not identify him, Miss Griffith today was permitted to see no one, though hospital authorities said her condition was not serious, Airport Police Captain Chester H. Borum rode with the passengers from Nashville to Dallas and returned here to advance the theory that a “bump” had thrown Miss Griffith off her feet and she sustained her bruised head and body in the fall. Paul Stanley, local manager of the line, advanced the same theory, Late yesterday afternoon, Mr Stanley consented to interview Miss Griffith for the press. He emerged from the hospital, saying: “Miss Griffith says that she was leaning over in a corner in the ladies’ lounge and some man whis“Give me the key. Give me the key or I will slug you. “Then, she said, she felt a heavy blow on the head. She said she saw no one. She said as she lay on the floor she swallowed the key to the baggage compartment. She said she never saw anvone in the

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TO LEAVE CHINA

England Bows to ‘Request’

' By Japan; U. S. Silent | On Its Plans.

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[British sector of the International Settlement, | The original purpose of the British [troops at Shanghai was to protect [the International Settlement, rich land built largely by foreign and, among foreigners, British interests, [from Chinese violence It was considered that the pres[ent garrison was too small to meet any major situation at Shanghai but that it was sufficient to be usew ful “elsewhere,” probably at Honge kong. In Shanghai, a Japanese Embassy spokesman said: “We expect and hope that other troops will withe draw.” He pointed out that at the start of the European War, Japan | had asked that troops of belligerents | be withdrawn from Japanese-oc» [cupied territory because of danger of some incident which might ine volve Japan.

1500 U. S. Troops in Area

In Washington, however, the Stats Department would not say whether [there was any possibility that U. 8, troops also might be withdrawn | This country has about 1500 Ma= rines in the Far East, approximately [1000 of which are in Shanghai and {about 250 each in Tientsin and | Pieping. The British withdrawal was cote | sidered by diplomats in Tokyo as part of the efforts of the London | Government to “appease” Japan, [It was pointed out that in event of la break in relations between the two countries, Britain would not be able to defend Shanghai, Tientsin or Peiping. Therefore, it was suge gested in diplomatic sources, the | British might be withdrawing to [give Japan a bloodless victory while they prepared for stiffer resistance [elsewhere in the East The necessity for bolster Empire defenses points and eliminate (such as China the trend of | Africa,

Rome Confident

In the war in Africa, the British and Italians both claimed aerial victories along the Libyan-Egyptian frontier, The British said they had shot down 15 Italian airplanes and the Italians reported thev had de stroyed five British craft Both sides disputed the others claims. The Italian advance into British Somaliland was reported by Fascists to be continuing and to be threaten ing the big port of Berbera, but British sources at Cairo said that the Fascist operations had slowed down or halted in the Hargeisa and Odweina sectors Dispatches from Rome expressed confidence that the capture of all of Somaliland, (68,000 square miles and 350,000 persons) was only a matter of days and that the British base at Aden would then be the objective of Italian forces, aided perhaps by natives trained as parachutists. In the Balkans — agreements granting additional Rumanian land to territory-demanding neighbors probably will be reached soon as a result of a speech by Rumanian Premier Ion Gigurtu. | Gigurtu told the nation in a radio | broadcast last night that King { Carol's Government had decided to yield to the demands of Hungary and Bulgaria for Transylvania and Southern Dobrudja and that the | necessary negotiations were in proge | ress. Hungary and Bulgaria pressed their demands soon after Rumania turned over Bessarabia and Northe ern Bukovina province to Russia, Germany and Ttaly backed the dee mands and urged Rumania to ace | cept them

Britain to at vital weak sectors was emphasized by war in Europe and

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