Reading the paper on Nov. 23, 1941.
Yesterday, Secretary of State Cordell Hull summoned the Chinese ambassador from his sick bed to join discussions with ambassadors from Britain, Australia, and the Netherlands regarding the status of US—Japanese bilateral negotiations.
Japan currently occupies Manchuria and a large portion of China’s eastern coast, including Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing.
Hull assured the ambassadors that, while the US wished to avoid war, no accommodation to Japan would be made at China’s expense.
Later, Hull met with Japanese envoys in his Washington apartment.
[In three days, six Japanese aircraft carriers bearing 414 planes will set sail for Pearl Harbor.]
As the British pursued their armored offensive in Libya, with its focus on relieving the besieged British garrison at Tobruk, the German High Command conceded yesterday that its forces there were engaged in ‘a severe battle’ with British tank units.
With the British objective being the destruction of every German tank in Libya, a British spokesman said German General Rommel’s main Panzer force has been ‘badly battered.’
On the eastern front in Europe, the Germans reported the capture of the Russian city of Rostov, called the ‘door to the Caucasus oil fields,’ and claimed ‘further progress’ in its drive to capture Moscow.
Yesterday the Vatican announced that, while the world must make a choice between ‘this new order or that,’ the Catholic Church is not faced with such a choice.
‘The teachings of the Church are unchanging,’ it said, rejecting Vatican involvement in any ‘terrestrial’ disputes.
Three members of the US Senate known for their isolationist views have criticized the Navy for refusing to release details on Nazi U-boat sinkings of American vessels.
One claimed the Navy had adopted the tactics of Hitler and Stalin in holding back information, while another said that, if the public knew the truth, they’d view the sinkings as ‘the logical result of the President’s war.’
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has announced that Britain was now in a position to release warships to the Indian and Pacific Ocean, if needed, due to the increase in US naval activity in the Atlantic.
Nazi occupation forces in Bergen, Norway, have executed high school teacher Ingvold Garbo for printing anti-Nazi pamphlets and placing them in German Army transport vehicles.
And nearly one million Americans have enrolled as volunteers in the federal government’s Civilian Protection Program where they will receive training in a variety of civil defense jobs: air raid wardens, bomb disposal workers, auxiliary firemen, demolition and road repair workers, decontamination workers, emergency food and housing workers, and medical aides.
A New Jersey district court clerk, who was the first in his state to assemble a jury composed of Black men and white women, has achieved another ‘first’ by summoning a group of Black women to the court’s jury pool.
White men are increasingly unavailable for jury duty, he said, since most in the region had taken jobs in New Jersey defense plants.
And finally…
Yesterday marked the start of the annual two-day show of the Empire Cage Bird Association, an organization of canary lovers from New York State.
In a hotel salon at 10:00 am yesterday, curtains were removed from one thousand bird cages, whose occupants then sang and chirped for the next twelve hours before the room darkened and their curtains were returned.
Meanwhile, in a separate room during the course of the day, Frank Tischer, the bird song judge, evaluated those canaries seeking to be named best chirper in show.
Tischer’s esults are expected at the end of the day tomorrow.
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I’ll see you on Monday.
— Brenda
Stories from the New York Times.
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