Empire economic council debated amid wartime unity
London parliament heard proposals for an empire economic council to plan postwar development. Hugh Dalton cautioned restraint until dominion representatives meet, while Emmanuel Shinwell urged immediate inventory of empire resources and expansion, with Canada highlighted as a future power. The debate stressed unity and continued trade within the empire and with key global partners.
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London
Dominion
Mo Gual
Hugh Dalton
Board of Trade
Empire
Economic Council
Dalton
Family Council
Britain
Commonwealth
Emmanuel Shinwell
Shinwell
India
Scandinavia
Netherlands
Denmark
Belgium
France
Economic Commonwealth
British Commonwealth of Nations
Canada
Dominions
STILL A MENACE Germany Likely To Use Submarines Again
Ottawa reports Lieut Norman Jewell a top British submarine commander says German submarine warfare remains a definite menace and could break out with renewed fury. He notes 14 enemy vessels sunk or damaged and cites morale and Tirpitz and Scharnhorst actions as reasons for a lull.
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Ottawa
Norman Jewell
Britain
Lieut
Jewell
Tirpitz
Scharnhorst
Britain Plans Measures For German Control
In a House of Lords debate Lord Cherwell vowed that Britain will curb Germany s future war potential with expert scientific help and firm action. Lord Vansittart urged a committee to plan deindustrialization and Allied control of heavy industry, aviation, machines tools, and synthetic fuels. Other peers debated Germany s postwar role and restrictions on aircraft, ships, tanks, and strategic metals.
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London
Britain
Germany
Lord Cherwell
House of Lords
Lord Vansittart
Lord Strabolgi
Europe
Bank of England names new governor and deputy
Lord Catto elected governor succeeding Montagu Norman who retires April 6 due to illness and age. Norman led the bank for a quarter century. Basil Gage Catterns is re elected deputy governor.
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London
Lord Catto
Bank of England
Montagu Norman
Norman
Basil Gage Catterns
Air transport planes for troops to aid Canada in 1944
Air Minister Power stated in the commons that transport aircraft for moving troops in Canada's defence would be available in 1944, one year ahead of previous expectations. The remark highlights accelerated wartime logistics and readiness.
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Ottawa
Power
Commons
Canada
Worthington Returns to Canada to Command Camp Borden
Maj. Gen. F. F Worthington, former overseas commander of a Canadian armored division, has returned to Canada by air. He is to assume command at Camp Borden per a National Defence Department notice from February.
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Montreal
F. F Worthington
Seas
Canada
Cen
Worthington
Camp Borden
Department of National Defence
UN relief plan not yet asked for by Russia say Ottawa aide
Brooke Claxton parliamentary assistant to Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the commons that Russia had not requested aid for liberated areas under the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration UNRRA. He noted UNRRA does not handle reconstruction but rehabilitates to help nations help themselves.
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Ottawa
Brooke Claxton
Mackenzie King
Commons
Russia
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Grete Stirling
Yale
UN Faa
Stirling
Unrera
Claxton
UNRRA
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
U.r.ra
Riches of North Calgary Spotlight Mineral Belt
Col. Harry Snyder spoke to a service club claiming the pre-Cambrian shield from Great Bear Lake to Great Slave Lake, east of Fort Smith, holds the world’s richest mineral wealth. He noted diverse metals, vast timber, immense water power, and good farming land, citing his 1934 Northwest Territories wood bison expedition. He also owns a Red Deer valley ranch near Olds. Approximately half of Russia’s doctors are women.
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Calgary
Great Bear Lake
Great Slave Lake
Fort Smith
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Harry Snyder
F.R. G.S
Col. Snyder
Red Deer Valley
Olds
Northwest Territories
Tense Danish Town Braces as German Troops Crack Down
In Sonderborg, German troops dispersed thousands of demonstrators after a general strike following a naval shelling that killed one and wounded two. Coffins were paraded to Central Station as crowds sang at Nazis. Copenhagen reports show a tense scene in the 40,000 population Southern Jutland town with arrests, barbed wire barricades, and patrols by Danish and German forces armed with machine guns.
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Stockholm
Sonderborg
Copenhagen
Jutland
Vatican Denounces Sistine Chapel Time Bomb Rumor
Osservatore Romano as quoted by Vatican Radio calls the Nazi origin rumor of a time bomb in the Sistine Chapel a pure invention. The claim spread earlier in wartime era coverage, prompting denials from church officials.
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New York
Vatican
Osservatore Romano
Vatican Radio
Sistine Chapel
Canadians Man Two Aircraft Escort Carriers
Ottawa reports Canadian naval personnel have manned two escort aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy. The carriers, fully Canadian manned for seamen, rely on Royal Navy flying personnel and operate under British Admiralty direction. The record describes the ships as compact air bases with flight decks, hangars, and extensive machinery, reflecting a shift from small ships to larger carriers in Canada's Navy.
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Ottawa
Hen Angus Ll. Macdonald
National Defence
Empire Should Unite On Air Power Says Premier
Victoria. Ontario Premier George Drew urged the British empire to unite on future air power at a Kiwanis-Canadian Club luncheon. He argued for full discussion and noted air transport would knit empire and commonwealth nations closer. He said the United States favors a stronger empire partnership and warned against joining an international air system.
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Empire
Victoria
British Empire
George Drew
Ontario
Commonwealth
United States
U.S
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