President is Firm – 2
The International Situation – 2
The Berlin-Rome Axis Meets on the African Desert (photo) – 3
R.A.F. Raids Brest, Attacking Berth of Reich Cruiser – 4
In Norway: The Handwriting on the Wall (photo) – 5
A Ski Spill at Sun Valley * (photo) – 5
The Menace at Sea – 6
Text of Day’s War Communiques – 7
* First ever post from the Society page. Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Vanderbilt look like they are having so much fun I thought it was a cheery photo for chilly February day.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/feb41/f26feb41.htm
British approach Turkey about alliance
Wednesday, February 26, 1941 www.onwar.com
In Ankara... Eden and Dill continue their Middle East mission with a visit to Turkey, but they get no real response to their efforts to interest the Turks in an alliance.
The headline is certainly confusing. America was not at war — what “victory” could FDR have been referring to?
Right there on the front page, toward bottom right, you can read about the beginning of the end of the steel industry in America. You know, based on the stories in these editions of the NY Times from 70 years ago it seems that whe nation was in a constant state of “labor strife” (a phrase used on “today’s” front page, by the way, in the subtitle of the main story on the right side).
One story that cracked me up was the story earlier this week (or last weekend) that reported that local newspaper unions were lobbying for a law which would bar commercial advertisements on radio shows. The unions believed it was diverting too many advertising dollars away from (unionized) newspapers.
My point is that even as America was feeling the winds of war from Europe and Japan, the communists were waging war right here at home, right under our noses.
By the way, I presume Mrs. John Jacob Astor is daughter-in-law (or granddaughter-in-law) of the John Astor (Waldorf-Astoria hotel magnate) who went down on the Titanic?