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U S House passes bill ordering registration as foreign agent
bill for registration of men between 20-44 for mil service and 18-64 for man power survey passed by both houses after conferees submit compromise rept; Hershey estimates army strength increase; conferees illus
USSR cavalry and tanks crush retreating Germans, central Moscow front; Col E Labonne's French legion reptd smashed, same area; USSR forces near Volokolamsk; Germans admit heavy blows; Finns claim USSR attacks repulsed, Lake Onega-Ladoga areas; map
German diplomats and correspondents arrive, White Sulphur Springs; Thomsen and wife leaving Wash illus; Swiss Legation takes over German Embassy custody; Ital Embassy staff remains in Wash
troop massing on southern French borders reptd
1941Igor Severyanin, Russian-Estonian poet and author (born 1887)[†]
Igor Severyanin was a Russian poet who presided over the circle of the so-called Ego-Futurists.
1941World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers", in Kunming, China.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.