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August 31, 1943

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Headlines from August 31, 1943

Rescue at Once of Europe's Jews Demanded at Conference Here; IMMEDIATE RESCUE OF JEWS DEMANDED

By Unknown Author

Dr C Weizmann cables messages; gen com members chosen

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RUSSIANS TAKE TAGANROG, NAZIS' SOUTH ANCHOR; ENCIRCLE ENEMY THERE BY SWEEP TO THE WEST; GERMANS ARREST DANISH CABINET AND LEADERS; ROSTOV AREA FREED Trapped German Army Faces Annihilation in Crushing Defeat NAZI RETREAT SEEN NEAR Russians Take 150 Villages in Drives Including Gains on Sevsk-Bryansk Front ROSTOV AREA FREED BY TAGANROG FALL

By the United Press

USSR forces take Taganrog; break through to Sea of Azov; importance of capture stressed; Stalin order of the day text; USSR forces gain on Bryansk and Kharkov fronts; Gers reptd trapped between Kharkov and Donets Basin; map

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Danish Refugees Drowned As Planes Sink Their Boats; Danish Refugees Killed in Flight; Resistance to Germans Continues

By the Associated Press

resignation and arrest of Premier Scavenius and Cabinet reptd; royal family interned at Amalienborg; Gers said to have arrested other prominent persons and all army and navy officers; announce laws change over Danish radio; more troops rushed into country to enforce regulations; refugees who reach Sweden rept many who attempted escape were drowned as Gers fired on their boats

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U.S. EXPERTS DOUBT 3-POWER TALK SOON; Lack of Planning and Absence of American Post-War Policy Held Delaying Factors U.S. EXPERTS DOUBT 3-POWER TALK SOON

By Harold Callenderspecial To the New York Times

Lack of definitive US policy on post-war commitments deplored

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U.S. FORCES SEIZE ISLE MILE OFF VILA; Bring Foe's Central Solomons Base Under Cross Gunfire -Salamaua Defenders Gain U.S. FORCES SEIZE ISLE MILE OFF VILA

By the United Press

US forces seize Arundel Is off Vila; attack ships and bases, Faisi-Shortland area, Kolombangara, Choiseul and Santa Isabel Islands; map

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1943Leonid Ivashov, Russian general^[†]

Leonid Grigoryevich Ivashov is a Russian military and public official. He is a former President of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems and a retired colonel general.

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1943USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.^[†]

USS Harmon (DE-678) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. USS Harmon was named after Mess Attendant Leonard Roy Harmon, who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions on the cruiser USS San Francisco during the Battle of Guadalcanal. USS Harmon was the first warship to be named after an African-American.

Headlines from August 31, 1943

Rescue at Once of Europe's Jews Demanded at Conference Here; IMMEDIATE RESCUE OF JEWS DEMANDED

Danish Refugees Drowned As Planes Sink Their Boats; Danish Refugees Killed in Flight; Resistance to Germans Continues

U.S. EXPERTS DOUBT 3-POWER TALK SOON; Lack of Planning and Absence of American Post-War Policy Held Delaying Factors U.S. EXPERTS DOUBT 3-POWER TALK SOON

U.S. FORCES SEIZE ISLE MILE OFF VILA; Bring Foe's Central Solomons Base Under Cross Gunfire -Salamaua Defenders Gain U.S. FORCES SEIZE ISLE MILE OFF VILA

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