Pact Would Link Britain France with Russia
London reports government approval in principle of a mutual assistance pact linking the Soviet Union with Britain and France. Proposals to govern operation of the pact would follow in days and aim for a triple alliance before a formal treaty.
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Britain
France
Russia
London
Paseie
Meiais
Japan
Roumania
Poland
Greece
Turkey
Tory elected president as Royal Society of Canada meets
The Royal Society of Canada closed a three day Montreal session with a unanimous loyalty resolution to the King and Queen. Dr H M Tory of Ottawa was elected president, succeeding retiring Dr Victor Morin of Montreal. Dr R C Wallace of Queen’s University was named vice president and several officers were re elected or named.
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Royal Society of Canada
Montreal
Dominion
H. M Tory
Ottawa
Society
Tory
National Research Council
Victor Morin
R. C. Wallace
Queen's University At
Kingston
Ont
Arthur Beauchesne
House of Commons
H. C. Cooke
G. A. Young
W. S. Wallace
University of Toronto
RAF Bomber Crash Claims Five at Newark England
Flying Officer Jack George McGrail a Canadian and four other Royal Air Force men died when their bomber crashed near Newark and burst into flames. McGrail listed Ontario Canada as his address. Victims included Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Sergeant Howard Trencham Aircraftsman Raymond Lumley and Aircraftsman Edward Brentnall McGrail who piloted the aircraft attached to Manton aerodrome.
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Newark
Eng
Jack George McGrail
Royal Air Force
McGrail
Ontario
Canada
Geoffrey Lloyd
Howard Trencham
Raymond Lumley
Edward Brentnall McGrail
Manton Aerodrome
Will Sing For Royalty At White House Musical Program
Marian Anderson the negro contralto who sang at an open air Easter concert here after being barred from Constitution Hall will perform for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at a White House dinner in June. Mrs Roosevelt announced Anderson and Metropolitan Opera tenor Lawrence Tibbett will appear on a program highlighting American music and talent.
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Washington
Marian Anderson
Daughters of American Revolution
Constitution Hall
King George
Queen Elizabeth
White House
Roosevelt
Miss Anderson
Lawrence Tibbett
Metropolitan Opera
King and Queen greet crowds as coal souvenirs fly
Royal train arrivals in North Toronto attract scramble for tossed coal pieces from crew. Crowds, from youths to elders, compete to pocket fuel mementos as the royal party departs. Australia drops plan to tax all cyclists.
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Toronto
North Toronto
Garden Party Protests At Washington Hostess Lady Lindsay
Protests arose when 1350 invitations for a garden party at Washington were limited. Lady Lindsay defended the guest list citing American representatives from various fields including John L. Lewis Henry Ford and J P Morgan among others.
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Lady Lindsay
Ronald Lindsay
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Henry Ford
Col
Charles A Lindbergh
Joan D. Rockefeller
Pershing Norman Davis
Bill Opposed in Commons Against Censorship of Communist Literature
In Ottawa Liberal MP Malcolm MacLean joined Angus MacInnis and Paul Martin in opposing Wilfrid Lacroix’s bill to bar Communist literature from the mails. The trio argued censorship risks broader suppression of ideas and warned against totalitarianism while defending freedom of expression on all fronts. The bill failed to reach a vote.
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Ottawa
Canada
Malcolm MacLean
Melfort
House of Commons
Angus MacInnis
CCF
Vancouver East
Paul Martin
Essex East
Wilfrid Lacroix
Quebec-Montmorency
McLean
MacInnis
Queen Mary Recovers After London Car Crash
Queen Mary is bruised and shaken after an automobile overturned in Putney. She rests at Marlborough House with engagements canceled. Witnesses describe the collision with a two ton truck and the rescue by workers.
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Queen Mary
London
Putney
Mary
Marborough House
Queen Mother
Port Arthur
William Appleton
Wandsworth
Wimbledon Park Road
West Hill
Percy Hullis
Royal Car Collision Leaves Hamiltons Damaged
Canadian veteran Lady Constance and Lord Claud Hamilton sustained minor bruises after a royal car crash. The truck driver faced shock but was not arrested and the royal vehicle was towed. H Winter, a Chiswick contractor, defended his driver as upset and unnamed.
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Constance Milnes- Gaskell
Claud Hamilton
Queen Mother
Oscar Humphrey
T. Housegate
Constance
H. Winter
Chiswick
Winter
Montreal Air Travel Report Shows 1416 April Trips
George Wakeman general traffic manager announced Trans-Canada Airlines carried 1416 passengers in April the first month of official service. Most tickets sold in Vancouver Calgary Edmonton and Winnipeg with 339 trips from Vancouver 123 from Winnipeg and 200 from Calgary. First month’s passenger business described as most encouraging.
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Montreal
Trans- Canada Airlines
George Wakeman
Vancouver
Calgary
Edmonton
Winnipeg
Wakeman
Educators urged to stop pandering to modern subjects in Canadian schools
Prof. W H Alexander of California University denounces what he calls a large and well organized racket in North America that would force taxpayers to fund expensive equipment for high schools to promote alleged modern subjects while discarding Latin and Greek. He cites the shift as an act of appeasement by educators at the Royal Society of Canada meeting.
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Montreal
W. H. Alexander
University of California, Tok
Royal Society of Canada
Alexander Fotimeriy
University of Toronto
University of Alberta
House approves Arab Jewish state plan for Palestine
In London the House of Commons voted 268 to 179 to back a government proposal for an independent Arab Jewish state in the Holy Land after a two day debate. A Labor amendment to refer the issue to the League of Nations failed 281 to 181. Lords approved the policy without division after an amendment was withdrawn.
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London
House of Commons
Hoy Land
House
Mandates Commission of the
League of Nations
House of Lords
Lord Snell
Winston Churchill
Archbishop of Canterbury
Holy Land
Cosmo Gordon Lang
Canadian defence chief denounces critics over Bren gun probe
Major General L. R. La Fleche denounces critics of the national defence department as the public accounts committee probes the Bren gun contract with John Inglis Company. He says rearmament has been hampered by those who sold out Canada and the empire, and defends public servants against insults.
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Ottawa
National Defence Department
L. R LaFieche
National Defence
Public Accounts Committee
John © Inglis
Toronto
Canada
Empire
LaFleche
British War Office
Grant MacNeill
C.C.F
Vancouver North
War Office
General la Fleche
Currency Issue Debate Prompts Bank of Canada Statement
Graham Towers of the Bank of Canada will present to the Commons banking committee a probable impact analysis of financing half of annual expenditures by currency issuance. Hughes Cleaver Ltd endorses debt free money opposition and urges practical remedies: hard work disciplined spending and debt repayment. Towers agrees that unemployment may persist until basic needs are met under a proper framework.
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Ottawa
Commons Banking and Commerce Committee
Graham Towers
Bank of Canada
Hughes Cleaver Ltd
Halton
Towers
Cleaver
Britain keeps Palestine mandate until Arab Jewish interests secured
Malcolm MacDonald told the House of Commons Britain will maintain the Palestine mandate to satisfy Arab and Jewish interests. He defended the new white paper as not breaking promises and outlined the path to an independent Holy Land with a Arab majority. Labor MPs Williams and Wedgwood backed the government after his remarks.
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London
Great Britain
Palestine
Malcolm MacDonald
House of Commons
Britain
Holy Land
Winnipeg porter vows not to be on call for royal duty
A Winnipeg railway porter tells passengers he is a senior crewman on the head run and refuses to be forced to duty for the King, asserting his status and declaring the King the King of kings while deriding other rulers as minnows.
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Winnipeg
Rhine Fortifications Flooded Near Strasbourg
Flooding of the Rhine swelled the most advanced underground fortifications in Germany’s Limes line forced evacuation. Kehl reported the chain on the Reich side of the bridge was submerged while French fortifications on higher ground avoided the flood.
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Strasbourg
France
Germany
Limes
Rhine
Kehl
Reich
International Bridge
Cama
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