Goebbels Calls for Total War Mobilization Across Germany
Propaganda minister Goebbels outlined a stepped up war effort and urged rally around Hitler. He promised a secret weapon soon and declared total war would become reality next month as Himmler reorganizes the reserve army and Speer intensifies production. He claimed a plot to assassinate Hitler was by Britain Russia and the United States. He said reserves would be drafted and new divisions trained for front use.
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London
Goebbels
Hitler
Goebbela
Berlin
Marshal Goering
Junkers
Britain
Russia
United States
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Himmler
Albert Speer
Major Archibald Falconer of Duval Dies at 61
Archibald John Falconer 61 raised a company for Canada in the First Great War at his own expense. He trained as an officer in 1916 and became a major. After the war he ran a general store and insurance agency in Duval and served 20 years as secretary treasurer. He also worked 12 years for the Saskatchewan Farm Labor Board. His wife died in 1943.
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Duval
Saskatchewan Farm Labor Board
British servicemen receive 106 Soviet medals in gratitude
One hundred six medals are awarded by Russian authorities to British service men and merchant sailors for valor in North Africa and Italy. Each medal comes with a book of vouchers allowing free travel on all bus tram and railway routes in Russia.
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London
North
Africa
Italy
Britain
Russia
Narrow Escape Missed Death Before Invasion
The London Evening Standard reports Adolf Hitler and key lieutenants Himmler Goering and Rommel narrowly escaped death when a Spitfire squadron dropped 12 500-pound bombs on their Arromanches headquarters in France, moments after the leaders had departed.
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London
London Evening Standard
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Hermann Goering
Erwin Rommel
Arromanches
France
Cheap meals provided to African schoolchildren in Bathurst
The mid day meal experiment in Bathurst, Gambia shows five schools now serving meals at four cents per child. The effort aims to improve nutrition and attendance among local pupils and gains early success.
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Bathurst
Gambia
Athens, Europe’s Oldest Capital City
Athens is identified as the oldest capital city in Europe. The note adds a date or value 2579, suggesting a historical or contextual marker tied to the claim.
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Athens
Europe
Government plans postwar farm price support boards
Ottawa outlines continuation of wartime farm price supports via a three member board to administer a future price floor for flour and other farm products. The policy aims to prevent a sharp postwar price drop by buying and selling, with the Wheat Board and meat board cited as precedents. The exact price level and activation date remain to be decided.
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Ottawa
Department of Agriculture
J. G. Gardiner
Canadian Wheat Board
Old
Bacon Board
Meat Board
Wheat Board
Made in Canada Navy Gunnery Devices at Angus Shops
Royal navy gunnery aids built at Angus shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway under a million dollar contract, ending in July. The order covered 120 naval fire control units including rangefinder directors and control towers, with values from 4300 to 48500 dollars each, total 1,192,000 dollars.
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C.P.R. Angus
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Angus
Practical accords hoped with Britain and America
Gen Charles de Gaulle told the French consulate that he hoped for speedy practical accords with Britain and the United States on coordinating French administration and Allied armies in liberated areas. He cited a strong bond with England and friendship with the United States, and praised Russia's role and talks with Canadian leaders and London refugee governments.
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Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
America
de Gaulle
United States
France
England
Russia
London
Wheat stock declines in four nations hit record drop
The agriculture department estimates world export wheat stocks fell from 1.748 billion bushels on July 1, 1943 to 1.17 billion this year, a drop of 578 million. US stocks drop steeply as demand for nonfood uses rises, with Canada nearing near empty stocks.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Foreign Agricultural Relations Division
Department
United States
Canada
Argentina
Australia
Northwest service command to move headquarters
The Northwest Service Command will relocate from Edmonton to Whitehorse Yukon within 60 days. Colonel F. S. Strong Jr announced the decision in Edmonton. A rear echelon office remains in Edmonton for liaison with Canadian authorities and the Alaska wing of the U S Army Air Transport Command. The overall strength of the command will be notably reduced.
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Edmonton
Northwest Service Command
Whitehorse
Yukon Territory
F. S. Strong, Jr
Nw.s.c
Air Transport Command
Strong
American forces advance on Tinian and Guam airstrips
American troops have stormed nearly a mile inland on Tinian and seized the island’s western third of the main airfield. In the Marianas, 125 miles south, they isolated a second major airstrip and bombarded the approaches to Agana, the Guam capital.
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Pearl Harbor
Tinian
Marianas
Guam
Agana
United States
Canadian battalions in Normandy confirm Dieppe action
Ross Munro reports in Normandy that four Canadian 2nd Division battalions have gone into action in Normandy. Named units include The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Winnipeg The Essex Scottish Regiment of Windsor Ontario The South Saskatchewan Regiment and Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal.
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London
Dieppe
Normandy
Ross Munro
Queen's Own
Cameron Highlanders
Winnipeg
Essex Scottish Regiment
Windsor
Ont
South Saskatchewan Regiment
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal
Heavy German Losses Reported On Russian Front
London and Moscow issued a broadcast communique detailing German losses in the opening month of the summer drive. It lists 381,410 Germans killed, 158,480 captured, and extensive equipment losses including 631 aircraft, 2,635 tanks, 8,602 guns, 5,695 mortars, 23,071 machine guns, 57,152 trucks, and numerous other items.
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London
Moscow
Germany
Vancouver Eyes Low Level Highway To Ease Traffic
City engineer Charles Brakenridge proposes a mile and a half business highway sunk below street level to relieve postwar Vancouver traffic. Estimated cost ranges from 4 to 5 million dollars.
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Vancouver
Charles Brakenridge
British MPs in Armed Forces Reach Sixty Three
A report from London notes 63 Members of Parliament are serving in the British armed forces apart from the Home Guard, reflecting wartime mobilization and public service.
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London
Home Guard
Canadian Navy May See Action In The Pacific
Ottawa reports that Canadian naval doctors study tropical diseases and ship air conditioning as the Royal Canadian Navy may join Allied Pacific operations. Officials say active Pacific involvement depends on the European war’s progress and British naval strategy to base in the Indian Ocean may bring combined British Canadian fleets to Burma and the Malay peninsula.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy
Japan
Pacific
Royal Navy
United States
U.S
Pearl Harbor
Hong Kong
Singapore
Mediterranean
Ceylon
Australia
Burma
Malay Peninsula
Indian Ocean
British wartime comic star Anna Russell heads to Prince Albert
Anna Russell plans personal appearances at the Prince Albert Exhibition on Aug 10 11 and 12. The British wartime comedy star formerly a concert and opera performer entertained royalty and troops before switching to comedy in wartime. She cites Canada's possible postwar expansion and West initiative and asks Canadians to welcome millions more immigrants.
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Britain
Anna Russell
Western Canada
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Miss Russell
Toronto
Edmonton
Sask
King Geoge V
Queen Mary
Duke of Windsor
Prince of Wales
Normandy
Canada
United States
West
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Tilly
Tilly-sur-Seules
2Nd Army
Ashley
M. C. Dempsey
Elizabeth
Rose of York
Princess Elizabeth
Doolittle
8Th Air Force
Viva
le General
Montgomery
Sir Bernard Montgomery
St. Etienne
Caen
Eighth Army
Western
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