Canadian Navy Launching Fall Recruiting Drive
Ottawa reports the Royal Canadian Navy seeks 3,000 new fulltime personnel to reach 10,000 officers and men while a 16,000-strong reserve drives the total to 18,000. The campaign emphasizes improved pay, accommodations, and training across 19 divisions and 50 ships with home port postings and family-friendly itineraries.
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Ottawa
Royal Canadian Navy
Canada
Army
RCAF
Navy
Sea Cadets
Royal Canadian Naval College
Pacific Coast
Uganda
South America
New Allied Directive Restricts German Criticism in Occupied Zones
The Allied Control Authority bans criticism of Potsdam decisions by German media and politicians in all four occupied zones. It also bars nationalist and pan Germanic ideas and rumor spread, while allowing limited press freedoms on internal political issues and foreign news under strict security limits.
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Berlin
Potsdam
Germany
Allied Control Authority
British crop yields fall on wet August September weather
London reports agriculture ministry yield forecasts for 1946 show reduced production due to abnormally wet conditions. Wheat sown on 2,000,000 acres is forecast at 17.7 hundredweight per acre, down from 19 last year.
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London
Agriculture Ministry
France adopts fourth republic constitution with strong legislature
The new constitution for France's fourth republic won public approval despite General de Gaulle's opposition. Continental France voters supported the plan by about 1,212,000 more yes than no, granting a powerful legislature over the president.
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Paris
France
Indians Make Up Majority of Bolivia Population
A regional census reports that more than half of Bolivia's residents identify as pure-blooded Indian, highlighting indigenous prominence in the nation's demography and cultural landscape.
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Bolivia
Britain’s wartime aid to allies totaled over £2 billion
A white paper by Chancellor Hugh Dalton reveals Britain aided 14 allies and neutrals from 1941 to 1945 amounting to £2,078,500,000 with 60 percent going to the United States and Russia receiving about 15 percent. The United Nations aided each other at about £4,500,000 annually at the war’s peak, near prewar export levels.
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London
Hugh Dalton
Britain
United States
Russia
France
Poland
Greece
Czechoslovakia
Norway
Belgium
Netherlands
Yugoslavia
Denmark
Turkey
Portugal
China
United Nations
Nations Prepare For World Trade Conference
Seventeen nations begin prep for a world trade organization aimed at stabilizing and expanding global commerce. A 10 man Canadian delegation leads talks to draft an annotated agenda and a convention reflecting U.S. tariff reductions and cartels controls, amid tension with non industrialized peers and allied Commonwealth concerns.
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London
U.S
Australia
New Zealand
Ban on Married Women in British Civil Service Ended
London reports that the ban on employment of married women in the British home civil service has been abolished. Chancellor Hugh Dalton announced the change in the House of Commons.
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London
Hugh Dalton
Exchequer
House of Commons
Alberta honey crop sets new Dominion record this year
Alberta will produce about 6,200,000 pounds of honey, the Dominion's highest ever, announced W. G. Le Maistre provincial apiarist. Manitoba is near 5,000,000 pounds, ranking second for the year.
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Edmonton
Dominion
Alberta
W. G. le Maistre
Manitoba
Retaining Controls Ottawa Says Meat Prices Stay Tied
Top prices board officials in Donald Gordon's absence insist the end of U.S. meat price controls will not affect Canadian policy. They deny any intention to lift meat price controls now or soon and say border smuggling of cattle is unlikely.
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Ottawa
Prices Board
Donald Gordon
U.S
Gordon
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
O.P.A
Hereford Bull Fetches 35000 At Wyoming Auction
In Cheyenne Wyoming stockmen from 40 states attended the Wyoming Hereford ranch sale where a prize bull named WHR Roy Helmsman sold for 35000. Buyer W E Boeing of Seattle Boeing Aircraft company led the bidding. Last year the top price was 27500. Temple Bar once marked London’s western edge and displayed traitors heads before its 1878 demolition.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
W. E. Boeing
Seattle
Boeing Aircraft Company
Roy Helmsman
Temple Bar
City of
London
Concern Over Delays in German Reparations
Brussels reports growing worry over slow allocation of German industrial plants for reparations. The inter-allied reparations agency, including Canada, fears passive German resistance could hinder payments. Only about 70 of 700 designated plants have been assigned, prompting calls to overhaul the control council and accelerate transfers.
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Brussels
Inter-Allied
Canada
Germany
Allied Control Council
Berlin
Council
La.r.a
Russia
Poland
Control Council
Europeans In Constant Fear Of Another War
Paris reports rising anxiety across Europe over the threat of conflict between the Soviet bloc and western nations. Officials and civilians in Paris Berlin and Brussels describe war talk, frontiers from the Baltic to the Adriatic, and distrust at the peace conference. Some optimists hope the marathon crisis will yield stable settlements.
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Ross Munro
Paris
Berlin
Europe
Baltic
Adriatic
Brussels
Brooke Claxton
Rescue of Brothers by Brother in Birchington Channel
Former Sub Lieutenant Tony Garner used a telescope to spot two boys clinging to an overturned canoe in the channel. He swam to the victims and found his brothers Peter aged 10 and John aged 13 exhausted but unharmed after the rescue.
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Birchington
Kent
England
Tony Garner
Peter
John
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