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African-American Home Front WW2 | Elmer Davis OWI and the African-American Community 1942
1942, African-American Service, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Bringing the African-Americans On-board
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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Here is a small notice concerning the Office of War Information and the steps they took during the Summer of 1942 to ensure the patriotic enthusiasm of the African-American community in the war effort:


“Two well-known Negro newspapermen have been selected to supervise the gathering and issuance of Negro news. The head of the new division – still untitled – will be Ted Poston, former New York newspaperman. He will be assisted by [filmmaker] William D. Alexander [who will make newsreels].”

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Robert Moses NYC Parks Commissioner Editorial | Problems with WW II War Monuments by Robert Moses 1944
1944, Home Front, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles

War Memorials Don’t Have to be Ugly
(Pageant Magazine, 1944)

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Robert Moses (1888 – 1981) was an American urban planner who worked as the New York City Parks Commissioner between 1934 and 1960. During the Second World War his phone was ringing off the hook:


“All over the country plans are being hatched for war memorials. Demands upon public officials for space in parks and public places are daily becoming more insistent. [But] if truth be told, most gestures of patriotism are pathetic, third-rate, inadequate [and] ugly…”

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1942, Brazil, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Brazil’s German Problem
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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You can be sure that when Brazil declared war upon Nazi Germany in 1942, there was no talk of “our diversity is our strength” – for they were worried about the 1,000,000 Teuto-brasileiros (German-Brazilians) who dwelt among them who seldom, if ever, made much of an effort to assimilate:


“The Germans, in their towns and communities, have set up schools of their own, schools in which German teachers, with better equipment than the Brazilian national schools provide, have been preaching loyalty to the German fatherland… It was charged by investigators that German school children were being taught obedience to Hitler and the German clergymen were taking their texts from Mein Kampf.”

Brazil Prepares for WW2 1942 | Brazilian Military Newspaper Article 1942 | Battle of the South Atlantic 1942
1942, Brazil, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Preparing for Battle
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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“Brazil and the U.S.A. have signed a trade agreement whereby Brazil’s army gets needed war equipment in exchange for raw materials needed in the United States… During the last year, large quantities of arms and material have reached Brazil from the U.S. for development of defense at vital ports and construction of airdromes to guard Brazil’s 5,700 miles of seacoast.”

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1939 German American Bund Sent Boys for Training in Nazi Germany | House Committee on Un-American Activities Investigates Bund
1940, American Fascism, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Germany Woos American Youth
(PM Tabloid, 1940)

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“Hitler’s undeclared war against America includes the attempted wholesale corruption of U.S. youth.”


“Plans worked out over a period of years called for the selection of key Hitler leaders from U.S. youth in various cities and transporting them to Germany to be drilled in subversion…U.S. Nazis with college educations were sent to Stuttgart for a special eight-month course at the Propaganda Center.”

Afrika Korps Retreated 1942 | Rommel Tried to Take Cairo 1942 | British Army in Egypt 1942
1942, North Africa, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Rommel Returned to Where he Began
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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“Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Axis forces in Egypt have been beaten back by British guns and planes. A Cairo communique said yesterday that the German armored divisions had retreated west of the British minefields to the starting line of his offensive which opened a week ago… Captured Axis prisoner disclosed how Rommel had touched off the offensive last Monday with a proclamation to his men that “we are off to Cairo.'”

German Field Marshall von Bock Attack on Stalingrad 1942 | Soviet Field Marshal Semyon Timoshenko Defense of Stalingrad 1942
1942, Eastern Front, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

”Nazis Halted at Stalingrad”
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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“Stalingrad continued to hold today. For three days now the Nazis have been stopped on both the northwest and southwest approaches to the key industrial city on the Volga, loss of which would be a grave blow to the Soviet war effort… Today’s first Soviet communique indicated that Marshall von Bock continues to pour in more men, more tanks and more planes, trying to overwhelm the Russian defenders by sheer weight.”

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WW2 American Home Front Life
1942, Home Front, Liberty Magazine, Recent Articles

Yes, We Know There’s a War On
(Liberty Magazine, 1942)

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This is an interesting editorial that pretty much implies that the U.S. Congress reigning in 1942 thought the American people were just as dumb as Congress does today. Although the Selective Service had reached into almost every household in the country and taken every able-bodied male, Congress behaved as if these households only cared about gas and sugar rationing:


“Don’t Think that We the People, can’t take anything you have to hand out. And don’t get it into your minds that we don’t know there is a war on… He won’t be home for dinner [again] tonight. And your worry about our rationing cards would be funny if it weren’t so pitiful.”

Robert Todd Lincoln Bio | No Descendents of Abraham Lincoln Exist
1963, Abraham Lincoln, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles

The Lincoln Blood Line Ends
(Pageant Magazine, 1963)

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Here is an account of the painful life of Robert Todd Lincoln (1843 – 1926), the only son of President Abraham Lincoln:


“He witnessed the death of his father, the untimely deaths of his three brothers, the mental deterioration of his mother and the passing of his own 17-year-old son, who was the last hope for carrying on the Lincoln name.”


Click here to read about General Grant’s son.

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