Regulations To Speed Up Army Demobilization
Ottawa announced new regulations to hasten Canadian army demobilization. The plan expands immediate discharge eligibility to eleven groups including compassionate leave personnel, wounded servicemen, repatriated POWs, First World War veterans, those over 42, and those under 19, with safeguards to maintain essential staff and national needs. Local and district offices will handle cases, overseas clearances remain centralized, and policy aims to speed releases while preserving service efficiency.
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Ottawa
Defence
McNaughton
Army
Vernon
C.w.ac
Navy
Air Force
Merchant Marine
Central Board
National Defence Headquarters
Cripps says Labour won’t nationalize cotton industry
Sir Stamford Cripps, president of the British Board of Trade, stated the new Labour government will not nationalize the cotton industry. He urged immediate government action to improve working conditions and organization to aid the sector. In Paris, Harold Laski reportedly linked Labour party success to a global rise of socialism.
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Manchester
British Board of Trade
Stafford Cripps
Cripps
England
Paris
British Labor Party
Harold Laski
Air service between England and South Africa announced
South African Airways says new Tudor planes will run the England to Capetown route next year on a 30 hour basis with fares from 600 to 800 dollars. Night flying will shorten the trip later.
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Capetown
South Africa
England
South African Airways
Britain Elevates Top War Leaders to Peerage in Dissolution Honors
King distributes honors after Churchill coalition defeat. Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Charles Portal, and Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay receive titles or honors. Churchill and Attlee jointly recommended these promotions. Four Conservative stalwarts gain baronies, promising by elections in strongholds. Brendan Bracken and Dunstan Sandys may contest seats to regain Commons.
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London
Britain
Churchill
Alan Brooke
Imperial General Staff
Andrew
The
R.af
Charles Portal
Hastings Ismay
Minister of Defence
Winston Churchill
Attlee
House of Commons
Admiralty
Brendan Bracken
Duncan Sandys
Gas Rationing in Canada Abolished Across Most Transport
Ottawa reports removal of gasoline rationing and transit controls for taxis buses and drive yourself cars with tires still rationed until stocks improve. Sugar canned fruits and meat rationing remain under wartime limits. Washington retains some controls.
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Ottawa
Munitions Department
Canada
Washington
Prices Board
United States
Pearl Harbor
Germany
Chester Bowles
Postwar problems test Allied unity and planning
London notes three major postwar challenges for the Allies: Japan’s occupation and language barriers, China’s peace crisis risk of civil conflict, and the restructurings in British, French, and Dutch territories in the Far East. A joint Big Three policy statement is urged to prevent factional violence and guide settlement.
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London
Europe
Japan
China
Allied Control Commission
Chungking
Britain
Russia
United States
Chiang Kai-Shek
Far East
France
Netherlands
Germany
Nazi makes will leaves land and wealth to wife
The Berlin Zeitung prints what it says is the will of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg former Nazi governor of occupied Russia and ideological leader of the Nazi movement. Rosenberg awaiting war crimes trial was seized by a British patrol in a Flemish hospital last May. Will bequeaths a Berlin palatial residence an Austrian estate and accounts in three banks to his wife.
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Berlin
Berlin Zeitung
Alfred Rosenberg
Russia
Rosenberg
Flemsburg
Austria
New Zealand minister cites two possible uranium sources
Wellington New Zealand minister for supply and munitions Daniel G Sullivan announced two possible uranium sources. The discovery concerns the radioactive metal used in atomic bomb production and signals potential new ore locations for national defense needs.
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Wellington
N.Z
Daniel G. Sullivan
New Zealand
Men for Harvesting in Montreal Plant
National selective Service officials said they will recruit 3000 men with farming aptitudes in Quebec. Half go to Maine to assist potato harvest, the rest to western Canada for wheat harvest. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Montreal
National Selective Service
Quebec
Maine
Canada
Victory Loan set for Ninth Victory Loan in October
Ottawa reports that Japan’s surrender will not end Canada’s victory loan program. The Ninth Victory Loan will run in October with Finance Minister Isley to announce the loan amount and campaign opening date soon.
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Ottawa
Japan
Canada
National War Finance Committee
Tober
Isley
Australia’s War Cost Pushes Debt Past Seven Billion
Melbourne radio reports Australia’s national debt more than doubled since the outbreak of war. By July 31 the cost reached seven billion four hundred million dollars, with all but four hundred fifty million paid in loans or internal revenue. The figure reflects postwar financing and government spending across the Dominion. The Prague note adds that President Benes nationalized the Czechoslovak film industry, turning production distribution and theaters into state enterprises.
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San Francisco
Melbourne
Australia
Prague
Benes
Attitude Of Japan In The Face Of Defeat
Emperor Hirohito ordered the resignation of Premier Suzuki and his cabinet as Japan prepared to surrender to the Allies. An English Domei broadcast said Hirohito urged Suzuki to stay and that the war was ended to seek common prosperity for all nations. The surrender sparked bitter reactions from militarists and Tokyo broadcasts urged troops to accept defeat while noting Japan’s loss of military power and the dangers of atomic weapons.
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Hirohito
Japan
Comei
Federal Communications Commission
Kantaro Suzuki
Domei
Suzuki
Gen
Koreichika Anami
Baron Kantaro Suzuki
Oya
F.C.C
Anam
Asia
Russia
Vancouver approves tax free grant for CNIB home
City hall authorizes a tax free property grant for a new Vancouver CNIB home valued at 100000 dollars. Capt M C Robinson national director reports 100 Vancouver residents have contributed 135000 dollars to the project to house 60 blinds persons.
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Vancouver
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
M. C. Robinson
Institute
Mayors Appointed in Occupied Chinese Cities
The Chinese government has appointed mayors for Shanghai Peiping Tientsin and Nanking following Japan's surrender, according to reliable quarters.
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Chungking
Shanghai
Peiping
Tientsin
Nanking
Sugar use by Americans tied to world production share
A historical note states one third of global sugar output is consumed by Americans, who account for one fifteenth of the world population, illustrating consumption disparity in the era.
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