Debate Over British Manpower For Continental Offensive
London reports indicate the House of Commons will debate, likely in secret, whether Britain can continue conscripting manpower for a future continental offensive and maintain armament output. Churchill notes distribution of manpower is central to the war effort as discussions consider limits, invasion timing, and focus on arming Russia.
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London
House of Commons
Britain
Churchill
House
Cuthbert Headlam
Russia
Church
Must Join Forces Indianapolis
U S secretary of the navy Frank Knox urged the United States and Britain to ally for at least a century to build an international law system by force if needed. He spoke to the American Bar Association, warning that control of the seas by peace loving powers could prevent another world war and that the U S must be ready to fight abroad rather than on home soil.
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Indianapolis
U.S
Frank Knox
United States
Britain
American Bar Association
Seven Seas
Great Britain
RAF claims 658 German fighters destroyed in offensive ops
Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair told a Middlesbrough audience that since February 1 the Royal Air Force had destroyed 658 German fighter planes in offensive operations over enemy territory and had lost 428 planes and 374 pilots. He said RAF sorties over northwest France pinned down large German fighter forces that would otherwise be sent against Russia.
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Middlesbrough
Eng
Archibald Sinclair
Royal Air Force
RAF
France
Russia
British Guest Children in Canada Favor Stay
Nearly half of the British guest children in Canada wish to remain in the Dominion. Mrs. T. M. Snow of Ottawa says the overseas reception board’s only English representative disclosed the figures in an interview.
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Edmonton
Canada
The
Dominion
T. M. Snow
Ottawa
Children's
Overseas Reception Board
A Strong Base Vast Supplies Of Equipment In Iceland
A field force of the United States army with infantry artillery engineers and support units arrives in Reykjavik bringing vast supplies to build a strong base. Maj Gen Charles H Boneshee notes skis snowshoes and rifles for all to occupy camps set by Marines and British forces.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
United States Army
Charles H Boneshee
U.S
H. O. Curtis
U.S. Army Air Corps
U.S. Army
Gibraltar
Indians Prosperous in Canada After Lean Years
Ottawa reports 120000 Indians in Canada are better off economically after lean times. Officials cite a good Pacific fish catch and a strong fur market with fair fur supplies. Several hundred Indians have joined military service, following earlier tribal participation in the First Great War.
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Ottawa
Canada
Indian Affairs Department
H. W. McGill
Pacific
Branc
Airgraph plan eyed to speed mail from Canada to Britain
Postmaster General Mulock says Canada will implement an airgraph system to shuttle messages to Britain. The sender writes on a form, which is photographed on film and mailed. it is enlarged in Britain and delivered. Rate set at ten cents per word.
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Ottawa
Mulock
Canada
Great Britain
Britain
Near East
Praise For Workers in Tanks for Russia Week
Lord Beaverbrook telegrams from Moscow congratulate workers who participated in Tanks for Russia week setting a production record. He praises their effort and urges similar or greater performance for a Tanks for Britain week.
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Lord Beaverbrook
Russia
London
Moscow
Britain
De Haviland Mosquito Set for Canadian Production
Toronto will produce the De Havilland Mosquito fighter plane powered by a Rolls Royce engine from its Detroit plant. Canada receives a large order as the aircraft moves to overseas deployment.
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Toronto
Canada
de Haviland Aircraft Co
Rolls-Royce
Detroit
New Car Sales Rise 45 Percent in August Ottawa
Despite taxation and gasoline limits, August new motor vehicle sales in Canada jumped 45 percent from a year earlier, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Three-Power Conference Ends With Pact on War Supplies
Britain and the United States agreed to supply the Soviet Union with practically all war material while Moscow would provide necessary raw materials. The three day meeting pledged to increase traffic and thanked Stalin for bountiful materials, tools, and munitions.
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Moscow
Great Britain
United States
Stalin
Postwar Communiques Highlight Allied Unity at Conference
Soviet and Russian statements praise mutual understanding and shared effort against Nazism. They credit Stalin with active involvement and frame the talks as a unified three power push for victory, while omitting details of an arms and materials exchange. Separately, New York beggars are estimated to collect $15 million yearly.
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Stalin
Munitions For Middle East United States War Supplies
United States war supplies flood the Middle East, straining Egyptian ports. Ships unload planes, tanks, and materiel amid feverish activity day and night. More than twenty US ships have arrived, joining British Danish and Dutch freighters bringing troops and cargo.
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Cairo
United States
Middle East
Egypt
Netherlands
Britain
British Empire
Canada cuts domestic electrical goods output to 75 percent
Ottawa reports a 25 percent cut in radios refrigerators stoves vacuum cleaners and electric washing machines to 75 percent of 1940 output. The move aims to conserve steel and metals for wartime needs and to limit civilian purchases as officials warn materials may not be available even at lower production levels.
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Ottawa
Department of Munitions and Supply
Alan H. Williamson
Department
R. C. Berkinshaw
Wartime Industries Control Board
Canada
Howe
Mr. Howe
Williamson
Measures Used by the Nazis to Suppress Revolt Across Europe
London report details German internal front measures from Prague to Paris. Czech sources claim extermination of intellectuals and mass transfer of industry behind the Sudeten mountains. German executions, varied by city, total 130 death sentences since last Sunday with reports of firing squads and hangings.
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London
Europe
Germany
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Sudeten
Brno
DNA
News and
Prague Radio
CBS
New York
Gestapo
Protectorate
Foreign Office
Dienst Aus Deutschland
May Evacuate Nationals From Japan
The Department of External Affairs reports worsening Japanese British ties and says Canada may quickly evacuate more nationals from Japan. Missionaries from Catholic and Protestant faiths are among those to be repatriated aboard a vessel Britain is said to have dispatched to Nippon. No clear sign of further strain in Japanese Canadian relations. Tokyo accepted the trade rupture after Japanese credits were frozen.
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Ottawa
Department of External Affairs
Canada
Japan
Department
Britain
Nippon
Tokyo
Dominion
Keep Fit League Petition For Open Recreation Halls
Seven hundred members of the Young Peoples Keep-Fit League petition the government to keep recreation centres open this winter despite night air raids. They state if they must die in an air raid they prefer to die happily at a dance rather than in a dugout.
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London
Young Peoples Keep-Fit League
Buckingham Palace Fences To Be Scrapped For War Effort
The historic metal fences and gates around Buckingham Palace will be removed to supply scrap for tank and weapon manufacture. The Ministry of Works and Buildings said the King approved the removal of about 200 tons of metal as part of a national war effort.
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London
Buckingham Palace
British envoy Sir Lancelot Oliphant Arrives in England
Sir Lancelot Oliphant former British ambassador to Belgium arrives in England from Lisbon as part of a recent exchange of British and German prisoners. He was captured when Germany overran Belgium in May 1940.
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Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Greece
France
Bulgaria
Hungary
London
Sir Lancelot Oliphant
Belgium
England
Lisbon
Pris
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W. Averell Harriman
Roosevelt
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A. C. Critchley
C.G.M
D.S.O
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W.A.A.F
W.a.af
E. A. Underwood
L. H. Underwood
Victoria
B.C
Paris
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