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US Navy repts US submarine probably sank Jap cruiser in recent attack, Pacific waters; 5 other Jap ships sunk, 1 damaged; Japan seen assembling air and sea strength against possible Allied attack
leaves hosp; spends 6 days at Roosevelt Hyde Park home; arrives, Wash; greeted by Pres and Mrs Roosevelt; illus; to address Canadian House of Commons
On fuel-oil rationing effect on NYC diaper service, press conf
OPA freezes canned products pending rationing; estimates '43 civilian supply
USSR forces straighten front to coast west of Rostov by taking Bogodukhov, Slavyansk and Rovenki; Col Gen Golikoff's forces pursue Gers, Kharkov front; map; USSR southern advance reptd rapid
1943World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.[†]
Nazism, formally named National Socialism, is the far-right totalitarian ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was frequently called Hitler Fascism and Hitlerism. The term "neo-Nazism" is applied to far-right groups formed after World War II with similar ideology.
1943World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.[†]
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted followers, known for his skills in public speaking and his virulent antisemitism which was evident in his publicly voiced views. He advocated progressively harsher discrimination, including the extermination of Jews and other groups in the Holocaust.