Current Events, May 26. 1942: VICHY SQUEEZE TO ACQUIRE FRENCH FLFLEET

                              The Charleston Daily Mail

                C H A R L E S TO N , WEST V I R G I N I A , MONDAY E V E N I N G , MAY 26, 1942

300,000 Italians Threaten Vichy in Axis Squeeze;

Mighty U. S. Air Armada Poised to Leap From Britain

Totalitarian Chiefs Seek Soil or Navy,

Mussolini Note To Laval Asks Corsica, Nice

By The United Press

An Axis plot to squeeze the

utmost war co-operation out of

Vichy France and to block any

threat that the French fleet

might go over to the United

Nations was reported today in

private advices to the United

Press.

Italian Premier Benito Mussolini

took the leading active role in the

Axis strategy, reportedly massing

300,000 Fascist troops on the

French frontier and sending a second

note to Vichy demanding Corsica

and Nice and calling for greater

Italian privileges at Tunisia.

Army, Navy Flight Staffs Visit London

Air Blow Seen

Merely Paving

Way for Yanks

By Edward W. Beattie

LONDON, May 26 (UP).—A

mighty air armada born on the

| assembly lines of America is

ready to strike directly at the

Axis, Great Britain was assured

today as two ranking United

States aerial commanders joined

British strategists in framing

plans for an offensive in western

Europe.

Mexico Set For Combat

Mexican War Declaration

Expected on Thursday

Brazil Reaction Eyed

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 26

Chile Action Urged

SANTIAGO, Chile, May 26 (AP).—