The Allies breached the "Hitler Line" in Italy, and Hitler authorized withdrawal of German forces to the Caesar Line.
The U-476 was irreparable damaged by a PBY. The U-675 was sunk by a Short Sunderland. The Iki was sunk by the U.S. Navy north of Saipan.
Adm. Luigi Mascherpa was executed for failing to collaborate with the Social Republic.
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President Coolidge signed the Foreign Service Act of 1924, creating the Foreign Serve and the Immigration Act of 1924, the National Origins Act.
The act reflected immigration by national origins, banned all immigration from Asia and set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere. It also authorized the creation of The Border Patrol.
President Coolidge held a press conference.
Following a by then long-established example, Sweden became the first European Nation to create national parks, establishing Abisko, Ängsö, Garphyttan, Gotska Sandön, Hamra, Pieljekaise, Sarek, Stora Sjöfallet, and Sonfjället.
May 24 is European Day of Parks.
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President Johnson delivered a speech at the University of Michigan.
President Hatcher, Governor Romney, Senators McNamara and Hart, Congressmen Meader and Staebler, and other members of the fine Michigan delegation, members of the graduating class, my fellow Americans:
It is a great pleasure to be here today. This university has been coeducational since 1870, but I do not believe it was on the basis of your accomplishments that a Detroit high school girl said, "In choosing a college, you first have to decide whether you want a coeducational school or an educational school."
Well, we can find both here at Michigan, although perhaps at different hours.
I came out here today very anxious to meet the Michigan student whose father told a friend of mine that his son's education had been a real value. It stopped his mother from bragging about him.
I have come today from the turmoil of your Capital to the tranquility of your campus to speak about the future of your country.
The purpose of protecting the life of our Nation and preserving the liberty of our citizens is to pursue the happiness of our people. Our success in that pursuit is the test of our success as a Nation.
For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent. For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people.
The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization.
Your imagination, your initiative, and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning.
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.
It is a place where man can renew contact with nature. It is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what it adds to the understanding of the race. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.
But most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
So I want to talk to you today about three places where we begin to build the Great Society--in our cities, in our countryside, and in our classrooms.
Many of you will live to see the day, perhaps 50 years from now, when there will be 400 million Americans four-fifths of them in urban areas. In the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes, highways, and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. So in the next 40 years we must rebuild the entire urban United States.
Aristotle said: "Men come together in cities in order to live, but they remain together in order to live the good life." It is harder and harder to live the good life in American cities today.
The catalog of ills is long: there is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs. There is not enough housing for our people or transportation for our traffic. Open land is vanishing and old landmarks are violated.
Worst of all expansion is eroding the precious and time honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. The loss of these values breeds loneliness and boredom and indifference.
Our society will never be great until our cities are great. Today the frontier of imagination and innovation is inside those cities and not beyond their borders.
New experiments are already going on. It will be the task of your generation to make the American city a place where future generations will come, not only to live but to live the good life.
I understand that if I stayed here tonight I would see that Michigan students are really doing their best to live the good life.
This is the place where the Peace Corps was started. It is inspiring to see how all of you, while you are in this country, are trying so hard to live at the level of the people.
A second place where we begin to build the Great Society is in our countryside. We have always prided ourselves on being not only America the strong and America the free, but America the beautiful. Today that beauty is in danger. The water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe, are threatened with pollution. Our parks are overcrowded, our seashores overburdened. Green fields and dense forests are disappearing.
A few years ago we were greatly concerned about the "Ugly American." Today we must act to prevent an ugly America.
For once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.
A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.
Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million--more than one-quarter of all America--have not even finished high school.
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary school enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.
In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.
These are three of the central issues of the Great Society. While our Government has many programs directed at those issues, I do not pretend that we have the full answer to those problems.
But I do promise this: We are going to assemble the best thought and the broadest knowledge from all over the world to find those answers for America. I intend to establish working groups to prepare a series of White House conferences and meetings-on the cities, on natural beauty, on the quality of education, and on other emerging challenges. And from these meetings and from this inspiration and from these studies we will begin to set our course toward the Great Society.
The solution to these problems does not rest on a massive program in Washington, nor can it rely solely on the strained resources of local authority. They require us to create new concepts of cooperation, a creative federalism, between the National Capital and the leaders of local communities.
Woodrow Wilson once wrote: "Every man sent out from his university should be a man of his Nation as well as a man of his time."
Within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will take us toward a way of life beyond the realm of our experience, almost beyond the bounds of our imagination.
For better or for worse, your generation has been appointed by history to deal with those problems and to lead America toward a new age. You have the chance never before afforded to any people in any age. You can help build a society where the demands of morality, and the needs of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the Nation.
So, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which God enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?
Will you join in the battle to give every citizen an escape from the crushing weight of poverty?
Will you join in the battle to make it possible for all nations to live in enduring peace--as neighbors and not as mortal enemies ?
Will you join in the battle to build the Great Society, to prove that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit?
There are those timid souls who say this battle cannot be won; that we are condemned to a soulless wealth. I do not agree. We have the power to shape the civilization that we want. But we need your will, your labor, your hearts, if we are to build that kind of society.
Those who came to this land sought to build more than just a new country. They sought a new world. So I have come here today to your campus to say that you can make their vision our reality. So let us from this moment begin our work so that in the future men will look back and say: It was then, after a long and weary way, that man turned the exploits of his genius to the full enrichment of his life.
Thank you. Goodby.
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Casper saw a big Chamber of Commerce Drive:
US troops captured Gaeta and Itri.
Forces of the Polish resistance recovered a German V-2 rocket which they would dismantle and ship to the UK for analysis. The rocket had landed near the Bug River in a test flight.
The Communist Party USA dissolved and voted to continue as the Communist Political Association. Apparently it got over it, as there's still a Communist Party USA. They did not run a candidate for the Oval Office in 1944.
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An interesting article:
The Allies took Gasta Itri, Monte Grande, Pico and n the Aquino airfield, in the Liri Valley.
Task Group 58.2 raided Marcus Island.
The Republican primary process concluded with the Oregon Primary. Dewey was the nominee.
Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars, was born.
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Congress overrode President Coolidge's veto of the World War Adjusted Compensation Act.
I can't say that act was a big surprise.
An image was transmitted by telephone line for the first time. Over two hours, 15 photographic images were transmitted by AT&T from Cleveland to New York City.
Korean nationalist tried, but failed, to assassinate Japanese Governor General of Korea Makoto Saito. The attempt was a clumsy one, involving firing on Saito's boat from the Chinese side of the Yalu.
Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer, after giving himself some time prior his own vaccine for Rocky Mountain Tick Fever, injected himself with "a large does of mashed wood ticks" and did not die, proving that the vaccine worked.
Today it would inspire a bunch of countervailing extreme theories.
Turkey and the United Kingdom failed to reach an accord on the Mosul Question, i.e., who owned the region.
The Royal Australian Air Force completed the first aerial circumnavigation of the continent with a Fairey IIID.
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However, the omission of all the amendments to the US Constitution following the Bill of Rights, which is included in the Bibles he's selling, is a bit harder to grasp.
Of course, why the US Constitution would be included with the Bible, along with The Pledge of Allegiance and the lyrics of God Bless The USA, is also hard to understand.
And in more ways than one.
The Germans had withdrawn, leaving only 30 men too wounded to be moved. The Poles were the first Allied troops in the monastery.
It would be rebuilt.
Stalin ordered the Crimean Tartars deported from their homeland. The action was carried out on the excuse that some Tartars had collaborated with the Germans, which was actually true of every Soviet ethnicity, including, in large numbers, the Russians. Repression of the Tartars would carry on for decades after the war, and the disaster has never been sufficiently redressed.
The Admiralty Islands Campaign and the Battle of Wakde ended in Allied victories.
Gerd von Runstedt as Commander in Chief of German forces in the west.
Von Runstedt was an old soldier by this point, having been born in 1875 and having entered the Prussian Army in 1892. Like MacArthur in the U.S. Army, he'd retired before the war, having left service in 1938, although he was five years older than MacArthur, who was old for a U.S. Army commander. An erasable character, he was not personally fond of Hitler, knew of plots to kill him which he kept to himself, but would not participate in them as he felt the concept disloyal.
After the war he was imprisoned for four years and upon his release found himself separated from his wife due to the division of Germany. She was in the American Zone of occupation, but he could not secure permission to visit her, as the US was upset by the British decision to release him. He died in 1953 at age 77.
It can be argued that his decision not to support the July 20 plotters was instrumental in the coup's failure.
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Kīlauea erupted in Hawaii.
The last Olympic rugby union game was played, with the United States defeating France 17 to 3.
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The Republic of Republic of Zamboanga was established in the Philippines. It quickly devolved into being an American protectorate. General Vicente Álvarez, who lead its establishment, fell due to intrigue with the American forces followed by the fall of the remaining Spanish fort.
On the same day, the US took control of Jolo.
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Lex Anteinternet: "We are weary".: That's a line from Crisis magazine's editor, Eric Sammons, about the Papacy of Pope Francis. I’m not going to carve sections out o...
And yesterday we learned that Pope Francis will appear in a prerecorded interview on 60 Minutes tomorrow night.
It shouldn't be, but this is fatiguing.
The Cowboy State Daily was founded by far right wing import Foster Freiss as he thought that the press in Wyoming was too liberal.
The online journal actually does a fairly good job reporting the news, but anyone reading it can tell, even though it has a surprisingly balanced oped section, that it's an intentionally right wing journal.
Nonetheless, reporting on one of the Republic primary races, we see this comment:
Well if she (Harriet Hageman) supports Barasso, she loses my support. But I guess the whole point here is for you at CSD to stir this drama up, isn't it.
After all, Barrasso is a democrat, like you all at CSD claim to be, communist adjacent, given your close ties with the degenerate anti personal hygiene Marx worshiper Rrod Miller.
You seem pretty interested in protecting your favorite RINO since you could never get an actual open democrat wearing a D elected to either the U.S. House or the Senate in WY.
Eh?
Barrasso is a Republican.
The Cowboy State Daily is pretty far right.
Communist adjacent?
[D]egenerate anti personal hygiene Marx worshiper Rod Miller?
Wow.
Some people really should not be allowed to vote, for being way too ignorant or willfully blind to function in any sort of deliberative system.
The US landed on Wakde.
Today in World War II History—May 17, 1944: Allied Expeditionary Air Force approves black & white invasion stripes for aircraft for D-day to prevent friendly fire, not announced yet to maintain security.
