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Selling the Iron Deer
The Great Gildersleeve · December 14, 1941 · 29 min · 4,913 words
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He is more late news, Dublin. Prime Minister Di Valera warns the people of Ireland to be prepared for war. When he says Ireland is continuing, its policy is strict neutrality in the spreading high stillity.
In his warning, Di Valera said war might come to Ireland, quote, as a thief in the night. Moscow, the Red Russian Army is striving to drive the Germans into a full Napoleonic retreat on all three Russian fronts.
And tonight they are still sweeping the Germans before them in the north, the center and the south. In Australia, the Australians have started blackouts and in Sydney to people of sandbagging buildings. The emissions workers are keeping war industries going 24 hours a day.
They've also offered to abandon their holidays and Australian youth stop clocking to the recruiting stations and increasing numbers. London, the British Communist Party urges the closest coordination of the Allied forces. An official statement describes the Japanese attack as fascism's offensive for the enslavement of the world.
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