Canada to study tank production for 40 ton models
Hon. D. Howe tells the Commons Canada will assess tank production with a 40 ton design. An engineers’ delegation will travel to Britain for guidance and plans call for collaboration of heavy industry including Angus shops in Montreal and Canadian Pacific Railway. The government says diesel engines and chassis are under development with Ford and General Motors supplying components for a $13 million military motor vehicle order.
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Canada
D. Howe
Commons
United Kingdom
Mr. Howe
Britain
British War Supply Board
Howe
Angus
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway
United States
Europe
Ford
General Motors
Soviet agrees to Cripps as British ambassador to Moscow
Premier Vyacheslaff Molotoff announced the Soviet Union has agreed to appoint Sir Stafford Cripps as the new British ambassador in Moscow. Cripps is a left wing Labour member of the House of Commons.
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Moscow
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Soviet Union
Stafford Cripps
Stafford
House of Commons
Belgian Troops Join Allied Forces in Flanders
General Legros to Defence Minister Denis reports about 45 000 Belgian soldiers joining Allied forces in Flanders after King Leopold capitulated.
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Paris
Legros
Henri Denis
Flanders
Leopold
France requisitions all new trucks for army use
New French trucks are seized by the military and purchase licenses for private firms are suspended, reflecting wartime controls. The measures impact commerce and vehicle availability as the army expands its logistical capacity.
Premier Reynaud reshuffles cabinet in France
Premier Paul Reynaud reorganizes his government and drops Edouard Daladier from the cabinet. He assumes war minister and foreign affairs portfolios while General de Gaulle is elevated to his war ministry aide. Jean Provost becomes minister of information publisher of Paris Soir.
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Paris
Paul Reynaud
Edouart Dalatier
Daladier
Reynaud
Charles de Gaulle
War Ministry
Sedan
Jean Provost
Paris- Soir
RAF Expands Training to Meet Future Requirements
Sir Archibald Sinclair told the House of Commons that the Royal Air Force training and flying organization is being expanded on a considerable scale to meet all further requirements. He noted many training schools have already been or are being established overseas in suitable countries and denied any understanding that Britain would refrain from bombing German military objectives until they bombed Britain. The RAF has conducted a number of successful attacks against German military targets.
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London
Archibald Sinclair
Air
House of Commons
Royal Air Force
Archibald
Britain
Germany
New Kind Of Army London Urges Moral Re armament
Major-General L W Amps director of the auxiliary military pioneers service calls for recruits of all ages to join a new army to fight evil. He spoke to about 1 300 at Battersea Town Hall backing the mayor's moral re armament drive to boost morale. Phyllis Konstam and other speakers addressed wives mothers of service members and factory workers.
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London
L. W. Amps
Auxiliary Military Pioneers’ Service
Royal Engineers
Amps
Battersea
England
Phyllis Konstam
Bunny Austin
Labor Ministry Decree Aims at Controlling Worker Mobility
Clement Attlee announces a new labor ministry decree to direct workers in mechanical industries building public works agriculture and coal mining. The order seeks to prevent interference with production by unnecessary movements and keep workers where demand is greatest and most urgent. It also aims to retain and reinstate workers in agriculture and coal mining as employment shifts occur.
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London
Clement Attlee
House of Commons
Labor Ministry
Mr. Attlee
All-Time Ice-Out Record in Churchill Harbor
An all-time early break up was set June 4 as the harbor ice went out at Churchill Manitoba seven days earlier than last year. Boats may now be anchored at the northern seaport dock without ice interference as the Churchill River runs free.
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Churchill
Man
Churchill River
Rotary Contributes Ambulance To Red Cross
Calgary Rotarians donate 2146 dollars to buy and fully equip a Red Cross ambulance for use in war torn areas of Europe. The contribution was completed in five minutes, reflecting rapid local support for wartime medical relief.
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Calgary
Red Cross
Europe
Ottawa moves to outlaw over a dozen groups under Defence of Canada rules
Justice Minister Ernest La Pointe announced in the House of Commons that more than a dozen organizations including the Communist party and the National Unity party will be made illegal upon publication in the Canada Gazette. The order also presumes membership upon attendance or advocacy and empowers RCMP officers to issue search warrants as justices of the peace.
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Ottawa
Communist Party
National Unity Party
Defence of Canada
Justice Mininister
Ernest Lapointe
House of Commons
Canada Gazette
Order-In-Council
Lapointe
Canadian Labor Defence League
League For Peace and Democracy
Young Communist League
Justice E. R. E. Chevrier
Harry Binder
Louis Binder
Arthur Roy Saunders
Auslands Organization
National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
Deutsche Arbeitsfront
Canadian Society For German Culture
Duetscher Bund
Canadian Union of Fascists
The
Communist Party of Canada
Young Communist League of Canada
Ukrainian Labor Farmer Temple Association
Finnish Organization of Canada
Russian Workers’ and Farmers’ Club
Croatian Cultural Association
Hungarian Workers’ Club
Polish People’s Association
Canadian Ukrainian Youth Federation
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
R.C.M.P
Justices of the Peace
British inquiry into Ford aircraft production claim
The Ministry of Aircraft Production in London has ordered representatives in the United States to fully investigate any proposal Henry Ford might offer to the British government. The inquiry follows Ford’s assertion that his company could produce 1,000 aircraft daily within six months. Parliament Secretary J J Llewellyn disclosed the step.
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London
Ministry of Aircraft Production
United States
Henry Ford
J. J. Liewellin
Parachute Troops in Holland Foul Up Facts Reported
Authoritative sources say most German parachutists in Holland were huched. Case examples include 16 infantrymen in one plane with one survivor and 10 men landing where three were killed in the air and four shot on arrival. A British fighter pilot forced a German bomber into a crash after exhausting ammunition.
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London
Holland
Earth
Air Ministry
Strength Of Fleet London At Dunkirk Time
Britain maintained overall destroyer strength despite Dunkirk losses. At war outbreak in September Britain had 185 destroyers including six Canadian, five Australian and six impressed for Brazil. Twenty destroyers lost by Britain. 11 German destroyers sunk with two more likely sunk, leaving the Nazis with fewer heavy destroyers than Britain.
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London
Dunkirk
Britain
Brazil
Admiralty
Plans for Care Of Refugee Children In Canada Outlined
Plans completed for fullest cooperation between Canadian organizations and governments to receive place and care thousands of refugee and British children. The agreement between the Dominion provinces child welfare and other agencies fixes reception, matching with immigration authorities, medical supervision, and after care with immediate provincial action at receiving centers.
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Ottawa
Dominion
T. A. Crerar
Crerar
Department of Pensions and National Health
Canada
Britain Mobilizes Home Front Against Invasion Threat
Britain drills regular troops on village greens and fortifies the coast as wartime planners prepare for a possible invasion. Parachutists are feared, fifth columnists hunted, and farmers are urged to disrupt any landings by scattering haystacks and digging ditches. The government also buys livestock to deprive invaders of supplies.
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Sir Edmond Ironsides
Germany
Low Countries
France
Hitler
British Labor Fast Tracks War Industry Reform
Ernest Bevin announces Labour plans to speed heavy industry and mobilize public works to absorb returning soldiers. Government controls ban strikes and lockouts while the nation shifts to public enterprise to avoid postwar unemployment. Bevin cites a failed system of monopoly and big business as inadequate for wartime needs.
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London
Britain
Royal Air Force
France
Ernest Bevin
Hitler blitzkrieg running behind schedule claims diplomat
A Netherlands legation member in Berlin said Hitler expected Britain's and France's capitulation by May 25, but the blitzkrieg timetable failed. He cited only about 15,000 trained parachutists and many transport planes lost, delaying planned invasions of Holland and Belgium.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Britain
France
Netherlands
Berlin
Hitler
Mussolini
Italy
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Irish enlistment to defend country in imminent danger
Tens of thousands of Irishmen answer the call to arms as army officers express amazement at the diverse age groups enlisting. Prime Minister de Valera warns Ireland faces imminent danger and urges swift internal unity with the warning that if they do not hang together they will hang separately.
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Dublin
de Valera
Eire
Britain
Canada Holds Large Aviation Gasoline Reserves
The Department of Munitions and Supply announced that Canada now has very substantial excess reserves of high grade aviation gasoline. Oil companies built up the supply, and refinery capacity is sufficient to meet the expansion needs of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the air training plan for 1941 and 1942.
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Ottawa
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
Air Training Plan
Department of Munitions and Supply
R.C A.F
Paris Shopkeeper Appeals Eight Month Jail Term
A Paris shopkeeper sentenced to eight months in jail for slighting King Leopold II before the Belgian monarch capitulated to Germany has appealed, claiming he showed remarkable foresight. The case dates to May 28 and centers on remarks about the Belgian king.
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Paris
Leopold II
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Mr. Bevin
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