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Large, folding political map of the world with a news digest for the week of March 31 to April 6, 1944, detailing notable events.
A chart displays information about members of the Pan-American Union (excluding the United States), including populations from Axis countries and the date they severed diplomatic relations with the Axis nations. A map of the Russian Battlefront shows the 1938 borders and later changes or the region including southern Germany and Poland, eastern Ukraine, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Romania. An illustration of the United States' termination of lend-lease aid to Turkey has a turkey wearing a fez with a star and crescent.
World News of the Week (1939-1963), published by News Map of the Week (1937-1963), a division of the W. M. Welch Scientific Company (now the Sargent-Welch Scientific Company), was a hebdomadal publication of news maps primarily for use in secondary schools, with briefs of the most pertinent events of the preceding week. Leroy Kreutzig, a Chicago-area journalist, wrote copy for the publication for much of its existence; he also occasionally made the inset maps. During World War II, he also helped make maps used by American troops. Although war dominates the stories, other domestic and international stories are also covered. Photographs, infographics, cartoons, and phonetic spellings of names add to the educational value of the maps.
