To Avert Inflation – 2
Two-Day Roosevelt Silence Revives Talk of Sea Parley – 3
The International Situation – 3
Odessa Trap Seen – 4-5
Red Army Holds, Russians Report – 5-6
Weapons on Wheels for the Fighting Zone (photo) – 6
Hitler’s Conquerors of Smolensk Hold a Heap of Ashes and Rubble * – 7
Cabinet Shake-Up is Seen in Turkey – 7
Lesson in Gas Mask Technique for Russian Civilians (photo) – 8
Japan widens Economic Rule; Its Envoy Warns U.S. is Ready – 8-9
Hull Says Japan Must Alter Path – 9-10
Drive by Chinese Linked to Britain – 10
R.A.F. Ambulances Start for Canada – 10
Stiff Soviet Note Said to Warn Iran (by Ray Brock) – 11
Work on 2-Ocean Fleet is So Rapid Navy Expects Completion by 1944 – 11
Menzies Stresses Peril to Australia – 12
Ten Stage ‘Sit-Down’ in Office of Davies, Claiming Pay for Signatures on Petitions – 12
Casualties in Russia-II (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 14
* From the preview in The International Situation:
The first correspondent of an American press association to visit Smolensk made a report from that city on the central front.
Thus Alvin J. Steinkopf makes his debut here. His story must be an interesting one. His first person report gives the impression he was flown in by the Germans so he could write an eye witness account of the situation in the east.
