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A LOOK BACK TO SEE WHERE WE ARE HEADING #7
publication date: Nov 25, 2023
1941
Germans Shoot 10 Paris Hostages, But Two More Nazis Are Fired On
By LANSING WARREN Wireleas to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
VICHY, France, Sept. 16—Several sensational developments in the tense internal situation of France were made public here today. The German military authorities an- nounced the names of ten hostages ‘who had been executed in reprisal for acts of terrorism against the German troops of occupation and ‘reports were received of two more attempted shootings on the streets ‘of Paris.
Senator Marcel Cachin, who since the World War has been the recognized head of communism in France, has been sought out in his retirement and been imprisoned by the occupying authorities.
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain announced the release of twenty- two union labor leaders confined throughout this war in concentra- tion camps as an act of social jus- tice and conciliation.
At least twenty serious sentences for Communist propaganda were delivered at Amiens, Marseille and Dijon.
The son of Colonel Alfred Heur- teaux, ‘vice president of Marshal Pétain’s recently formed French Legion, which has become the party behind the new regime, was kid- napped in Paris by unknown per-~ sons. This Iatter act will arouse immense feeling in the free zone of France, for Colonel Heurteaux has just come into particular promi- nence among the supporters of the Pétain government. He is one of the leading ace aviators of the present war and the father of ten children, which adds to his prestige ‘at the moment when French policy is being concentrated upon the glorification of the family.
It is important, too, to note that ‘the French Legion is not authorized ‘in the occupied zone, where the kidnapping took place.
Executions Now Total 18
Up to the present only eight ex- ecutions had been announced by the German authorities, three per- sons convicted of espionage and five Communists. There is no in- dication of the personalities of the ten hostages whose names were is- sued today.
The arrest of Senator Cachin was reported here last Friday, but it was not permitted to be men- tioned pending official confirma- tion. That confirmation appeared in the press tonight. Senator Cachin, who is well over 70 years of age, had been in retirement; since the outbreak of the war in 1939 and the suppression of the Communist party. He had for years been director of the party organ Humanité and for years had been the leader of the small Com- munist group in the Chamber of Deputies.
Jacques Doriot, for years Sena- tor Caghin’s principal collaborator, having renounced communism and formed his own party, has just left for Poland with the first contingent of volunteers to combat bolshevism.
The New JYork Times
Published: September 17, 1941
HOOVER SAYS WAIT TILL HITLER LOSES
Contends in Chicago Speech Nazi Rule Will End and We Can Stabilize Peace
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
CHICAGO, Sept. 16—Herbert Hoover predicted tonight the col- lapse of the Hitler regime, even though the Nazis suffer no military defeat, and at the same time urged a course which, he said, would lead ‘to national unity. He spoke from ‘Chicago in an address over the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Neither isolation nor intervention ‘is possible or wise, he said, “and we should preserve our strength, that, unexhausted, we may give real aid to reconstruction and stabilizing of peace when Hitler collapses of his own overreaching.”
The former President said he ad- vocated an impregnable defense for this country, no more name calling, a minimum interference with eco- nomic freedom by preparedness policies, the giving of aid to the democracies alone, the halting of provocative steps which might lead to war, and no taking of war-like steps or agreements without the consent of Congress.
Says Dangers Are Passing
“A cold survey of the world situ- ation will show that the dangers of ultimate totalitarian success are very much less than even ten weeks ago,” he said.
“The fratricidal war between Hitler and Stalin is daily weaken- ing both dictators. Hitler may gain from Russia some supplies, but he now faces all the rest of Eu- rope exhausted of its pre-war atucks of food and material.
“He has kindled behind him a consuming fire of hate; his king- dom cannot live even though he hag no military defeat on the Con- tinent.”
Mr. Hoover then said that Eng- land was daily growing more im- pregnable to attack, that the West- ern Hemisphere cannot be stormed by Hitler and that “under any American policy, in either Europe or Japan, if we have common sense we will concentrate upon building our production, give Britain her tools and await developments both east and west.”
“President Roosevelt,” he said, “is right in his protest at sinking American merchant ships without adequate protection to the crews, even though they were all carrying contraband.
“But the President's policy of edging our warships into danger zones, of sending American mer- chant ships with contraband raises the most critical of all questions. These steps to war are unapproved and undeclared by Congress. That is not in accord with the spirit of representative government, and it should be remembered that these incidents are the consequence of violating the spirit of the Neu- trality Act.
“There are other ways than going into this war, to secure rep- aration for transgression of our just rights and respect for them.”
Mr. Hoover spoke of the ‘four freedoms’ and said that freedom of speech and expression, and a fifth freedom — economic freedom — al- ready are in danger in this country.
Underfed, underhoused, under- clothed and undereducated people are the inevitable product of war, he said.
His Bases of Foregin Policy
He summed up the bases on which he thought American policy should be predicated, as follows:
“1. If we prepare we cannot be invaded nor our economic life be dangerously impaired.’
“2. England can prevent inva- sion of her shores if we give her the tools, and even warships, with- out our sending our boys to death, either on ships or land.
“3. Hitler is on_the way to he crushed by the vicious forces with- in his own regime.
“4. We have proved by bitter ex- perience that it is a futility for us to try to impose freedom and jus- fice upon the world by war,
“3. The ideas and ideals of the, West can grow and spread abroad by our demonstration in our own country. They will die in the world if the freedoms shall become weakened or die in America.
“6. To send our sons into this war must also be weighed in the scales of future America. Should we not weigh in this scale the dead and maimed? Should we not weigh the one-third of underfed, under- nourished, underhoused, underedu- cated Americans for another gen- eration that will be inevitable?
Should we not weigh the loss of our own freedoms?
Calls for “Constructive Policy”
“And where do these faacts, rea- sons and conclusions point?
“What is the constructive policy for America? Is it isolation? Is it intervention? Neither is possible. Neither is wisdom.
“We must have impregnable de- fense. This defense must include the other twenty nations in the Western Hemisphere. That is not isolation.
“We must give the tools of de- fense to the democracies. That is not isolation.
“We should reserve our strength that unexhausted we may give real ald to reconstruction and stabiliz- ing of peace when Hitler collapses of his own overreaching. That is neither isolation nor intervention.
“We can do our greatest service fo civilization by strengthening here in the Western Hemisphere free institutions and free men and women. That is not isolation. It is a service to all mankind.
“But to send our boys out to kill. That is intervention. “We hear much urging to na- tional unity. We could easily get unity—
“If we stopped calling names.
“If we directed our preparedness policies to the minimum interfer- ence with economic freedom.
“If we gave aid to democracies alone of Europe and Asia and gave it generously.
“If we stopped provocative steps that may take our sons into war.
“If no warlike step be taken and no agreement be made that is not submitted to the Congress. If the Congress decides for war then .we accept it.
“I believe real unity can be had among the American people in these proposals.
“Let us never forget we came over the ocean to this oasis of lib- erty. We extended this oasis great- ly by mighty streams of freedom.
“They were dug and builded by the toil of our fathers and defended with their blood. Are we now to march out into the desert of Eu- ropean war and see the wells of freedom dried up behind us?”
Broadcast by Berlin and Rome
Although former President Hoo- ver did not speak in Chicago until 10:15 P. M., Eastern daylight time, last night, Berlin and Rome broad- cast brief versions of what he had to say at 6:30 and 5:15 P, M., East- ern daylight time, respectively. The broadcasts were reported by Columbia Broadcasting System’s short-wave listening station.
Berlin said at 6:30 o'clock:
“The former United States Pres- ident, Hoover, declared in a radio speech that Roosevelt had caused the incidents, the bombardment of the - U. S. A. warships and the seizing of United States merchant ships, by having jeopardized the spirit of the Neutrality Act.
“The U. S. A. Navy had received the order to shoot. Nobody will deny, Mr. Hoover said, that if the U. S. A. continued this policy it would mean war.
“The entry of the United States into the war, however, could be sanctioned by Congress only.”
Rome said at 5:15 o'clock:
“Mr. Hoover, the former Presi- dent of the United States, has broadcast a speech in the course of which he declared that Presi- dent Roosevelt's policy of sending American warships to danger zones and of supplying one of the bel- ligerent parties with war material leads directly to war. Mr. Hoover also declared that the President's policy has not been approved by Congress and is in opposition to the spirit of a representative gov- ernment.”
The New Jork Times
Published: September 17, 1941 |
2023
Military recovers bodies of two Israeli hostages in area of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital
Yehudit Weiss was undergoing cancer treatment at time of Oct. 7 attack, when her husband was murdered; Cpl. Noa Marciano served at overrun IDF base, her death was confirmed Monday
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
16 November 2023
The bodies of two Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 were recovered Thursday by the Israel Defense Forces from the area of Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, the military said.
On Thursday evening, the Israel Defense Forces said troops had located the body of Yehudit Weiss in a building near the medical center’s compound. On Friday morning, the IDF said it had also recovered the body of Cpl. Noa Marciano a day earlier from another building adjacent to Shifa, three days after announcing she had been killed in Hamas captivity.
The IDF said troops from the 7th Armored Brigade’s 603rd Battalion found Weiss’s body, along with military equipment, including assault rifles and RPGs, belonging to the Hamas terrorists who had held her captive.
“To our sorrow, Yehudit was murdered by the terrorists in the Gaza Strip. And we didn’t get to her in time,” IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in his daily press briefing on Thursday evening. He did not specify when she was killed.
Her body was brought into Israel for identification, following which the military and police notified Weiss’s family of her death.
Weiss, 65, a mother of five, was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, when thousands of Hamas terrorists streamed into Israel, murdering at least 1,200 people and taking some 240 hostages. Her husband, Shmulik, was found murdered in the safe room of their home a week and a half after the attack.
Sending its “heartfelt condolences to the family,” the IDF stressed in a statement that “the national mission… is to locate the missing and return the hostages home.”
Weiss, a retiree who worked with kindergarten children and in the kibbutz dining room, was being treated with radiation for breast cancer when she was kidnapped.
“The IDF is operating alongside and in full coordination with the relevant national and security institutions in order to pursue these tasks. We will not cease from the mission until it will be completed,” the statement said.
Marciano’s body was recovered by troops from the same battalion, following intelligence information provided by the Shin Bet security agency. Her body was then brought to Israel for identification.
Marciano, 19, of the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps 414th unit, was serving at the Nahal Oz IDF base when it was overrun by terrorists during their murderous onslaught on southern Israel on October 7. She lived in Modiin and was the oldest of three siblings.
Her funeral was held on Friday. In her eulogy, Noa’s mother, Adi, apologized to her daughter for being unable to return her home.
“We tried everything for 40 days. We turned over every stone and climbed every tree,” she said. “You protected us, and we didn’t protect you.”
She recalled her daughter being a “girl of music and literature, a girl of dimples and smiles, a girl of love,” who wanted to serve her country.
Noa’s father said he had been confronted with the question “What do you need?” over the past few weeks.
“I answered that I have everything, and yet I have nothing. I don’t have joy or comfort. Now I have an angel named Noa. I promise you that the way you wanted to lead, we will carry on and not stop. I thank you for being a perfect girl. We love you endlessly and will never forget you,” he said.
Yuval, Noa’s sister, lamented that she had bought a birthday present for her, which was “waiting in your room, in wrapping.”
“I am proud of you, I am happy you cared, that you did what was good for you, that you danced, sang, and you fulfilled yourself like there was no tomorrow.”
On Monday evening, Hamas published a propaganda video of Marciano, showing her speaking to the camera four days after being taken hostage, identifying herself and reciting the names of her parents and her hometown. The video then cut to showing her body.
Weiss and Marciano are the first two abductees known to have died in captivity.
In an interview with Channel 12 after they were told of her death, Weiss’s family members appealed to officials to bring home the rest of the captives being held by terror groups in Gaza.
“It’s important for us to say that we fought, we battled in every possible way to bring mom, grandma Yehudit home,” her daughter Zemer said. “For us, it is too late, but it is important for us to support all the families of the hostages, and to tell the world, bring them home now, so that for them it is not too late, like it was for us.”
Her son Ohad added that they had “hope, a lot of hope, that she would come home. We wished, we hoped, and sadly for us, it is too late, but maybe for the other families it isn’t.
“We wish for the return of everyone, all of them, children, soldiers and adults. We love them all and fear for them all,” he added.
Her children said that they only just completed the 30-day mourning period for their father when they received the news about their mother’s death.
Earlier, family members of those missing and held captive in Gaza walked alongside hundreds of Israelis on the third day of a march from Tel Aviv to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, which they plan to reach on Saturday afternoon.
The families reached Modiin, where they paid a condolence call to the Marciano family.
Published by: The Times of Israel November 16, 2023
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Trump says US sends too many weapons to Ukraine, refuses to call Putin war criminal
by The Kyiv Independent news desk
May 11, 2023
Former U.S. President Donald Trump said at CNN's town hall that he would not commit to providing Ukraine with defense assistance if he won the 2024 election.
"We're giving away so much equipment, we don't have ammunition for ourselves right now," Trump said, as cited by CNN. He also refused to say who he thinks should win Russia's war against Ukraine, telling the voters instead that he wants "everybody to stop dying."
At the New Hampshire event, the ex-president said he doesn't "think in terms of winning and losing" but rather "in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people." Trump added he would stop Russia's war "in 24 hours" if re-elected.
When asked if he considered Russian dictator Vladimir Putin a war criminal, Trump replied that it "should be discussed later."
"If you say he's a war criminal, it's going to be a lot tougher to make a deal to make this thing stopped," Trump told the audience, according to CNN. "If he's going to be a war criminal, people are going to grab him and execute him, he's going to fight a lot harder than he's fighting under the other circumstances."
In March, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian official overseeing the forced deportations of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia.
This is not the first time Trump has made controversial comments on Russia's war against Ukraine and Putin, in particular.
Regarding his time in office, Trump said he "got along with (Putin) great" during an interview with Fox News in early March, adding that if he'd still been president, Putin likely wouldn't have invaded Ukraine.
"I could have negotiated," Trump continued. "At worst, I could've made a deal to take over something, there are certain areas that are Russian-speaking areas, frankly, but you could've worked a deal."
Trump's future in politics remains uncertain due to his recent indictment over a "hush money" scandal and a jury verdict that he is civilly liable for sexually assaulting a woman. Trump announced his plan to seek a second non-consecutive term as president in November 2022.
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