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Brit cruiser Hawkins repts German freighter Wakama scuttled herself to avoid capture off Brazil
USSR continues drive; repts taking 32 forts; launches drive on new sector; bombs Viborg; 100 Russian parachutists reptd killed or taken by Finns
analyzes New Deal philosophy and performances; sees erosion of capital
1940Bram Peper, Dutch sociologist and politician, Mayor of Rotterdam (died 2022)[†]
Abraham "Bram" Peper was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA).