Plan to Direct the Control of Atomic Energy
President Truman outlines plans for an energy commission with powers to direct atomic energy research and suggests international cooperation to outlaw the atomic bomb. He notes wartime use shortened the war and cites discussions with Canada and Britain on peaceful collaboration and secrecy of the atomic secret.
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Congress
A Energy Commission
United States
Truman
King
White House
United Nations Organization
Canada
Great Britain
Mr. King
Canadian Wheat Enters Berlin for White Bread Supply
Berlin officials report about 5 000 bushels of Canadian wheat arrive monthly as flour or grain to mill for white bread. Allied grain stores funded emergency needs and rye bread failed to supply demand in many areas of the occupation zones. Additional Canadian wheat is said to be distributed to British and American zones, figures not available.
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Berlin
Freedom of Speech Opens on Tokyo Streets
A broadcasting truck toured Tokyo inviting any resident to express opinions on air. Rationing politics and votes for women dominated. The program marked the first full freedom of speech in four years after Gen Douglas MacArthur ended government radio control.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Secret mission sails eight German POWs from Canada to Britain
Eight German prisoners of war were moved overseas for an undisclosed mission. Officials in Ottawa reported the group, guarded and transported aboard the Pasteur from Quebec, landed in Southampton, England, after being ferried from France.
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Ottawa
Britain
Reuters
Southampton
England
Pasteur
Quebec
Frank Halton
Toronto
Ont
Europe
London
RAF
German Scientists to Aid U S War Research
The War Department announced that a group of outstanding German scientists and technicians are being brought to the United States on a voluntary basis under army supervision to assist in military research. It did not disclose the scientists' identities.
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Washington
United States
War Department
Prince Rupert Naval Base On North America Front Line
Prince Rupert Naval Base in British Columbia ceased operations after six years of war. H.M.C.S. Chatham was decommissioned in a ceremony marking the end of RCN activity in the region. The base housed 700 men and featured a deep boom defense and Metlakatla pass spike boom to deter enemy vessels as Allied war material moved through Prince Rupert.
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Prince Rupert
B.C
Royal Canadian Navy
North America
H.M.C.S. Chatham
R.C.N
Japan
British Empire
Metlakatla Island
Berlin the focal point for Allied talks and four-power control
In Allied Berlin the city serves as the testing ground for cooperation among Britain, the United States, Russia and France. High command meetings and zone administration track postwar control, with frequent disputes yet generally workable relations shaping future international relations.
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Berlin
Germany
London
Washington
Moscow
Allied Control Council
Great Britain
United States
Russia
France
Ireland Sends Most German Prisoners to Britain
Dublin reports that except for nine escapees all 270 German sailors and airmen in Eire have been repatriated to Germany at the request of British authorities. They will be confined to the British occupied zone. The group earlier petitioned to remain in Ireland but were refused. Nine escapees fled fearing a transfer to the Russian zone and are now sought by military police across five countries.
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Dublin
Eire
Germany
Europe
Britain Contributes Vast Share to UN Relief Fund
Britain has contributed nearly 80 million pounds to the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration operative fund, against about 198 million dollars from the United States.
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Paris
Britain
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Operative Fund
United States
Canadian Bacon Dominates British Market
In London the British food ministry promotes bacon as a key postwar staple, highlighting four ounces per person weekly. Canadian Wiltshire sides, stamped Canada, supply much of the bacon while shopkeepers note many buyers overlook its origin. An agent recalls wartime shipments and praises current quality as on par with English and Irish products.
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London
Britain
Grace of Canada
Food Ministry
Canada
Wiltshire
Glasgow
Dominion
Time lost to strikes in eight months falls 63 percent
Ottawa reports the first eight months show 128 strikes affecting 44,349 workers with 170,293 man-days lost, down 63 percent from the 1944 period which had 157 strikes involving 66,509 workers and 464,594 man-days lost.
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Ottawa
Labor Department
Investigation of feeder air service to aid demobilized RCAF
The air transport board is carrying out a country-wide study of feeder line air service potential. The plan aims to open isolated areas and provide employment for hundreds of demobilizing RCAF personnel, with Ottawa as a center of activity.
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Ottawa
Air Transport Board
R.C.A.F
Treasure Trail Tokyo Loot and Bank Closure
American investigators pursue the treasure looted from Asia as Japan’s Bank of Japan closes and may reopen if officials cooperate. Troops guard 21 financial institutions tied to wartime exploits, with liquidation planned. civilians fear for savings but reassurances say deposits are safe.
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Tokyo
Japan
Great Bank of
Asia
Siam
Indo-China
Gen. MacArthur
Eisenhower to Proclaim New German Self-Governing States
Reuters reports from Frankfurt that Gen. Eisenhower will issue a proclamation to Germans creating three self-governing states within the U S zone. The new states are Greater Hessen, Württemberg-Baden, and Bavaria.
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London
Reuters
Frankfurt-on-Main
Germany
Eisenhower
United States Zone of Occupation
Greater
Hessen
Wurttenmburg-Baden
Bavaria
UNRRA funds depleted driving US aid plea
UNRRA has exhausted Canada’s 77 million dollar contribution plus up to 30 million in U.S. funds. Nugent warned that without a new 550 million dollar U.S. appropriation, UNRRA procurement would be hampered. Canada supplies wheat meat and other goods aid UNRRA operations.
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London
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Canada
United States
Rolf Nugent
Unrra Bureau of Supplies
International Relief Agency
UNRRA
Prisoners Run Japanese Alloy Factory Near Osaka
Six hundred Allied prisoners including 150 Canadians managed the production side of a Japanese alloy factory at Oyama near Osaka as World War II ended. They toiled in mines and a coal dump, faced half rations, weight loss, and frostbite from poor footwear, with 25 Canadians dying from malnutrition during the first winter.
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Guam
Oyama
Osaka
Japan
Pacific
Samsuipo
Hong Kong
London Newsprint Shortage Forces Four Page Newspapers
The Observer reports the cabinet plans to suspend newsprint imports from Canada due to a dollar shortage. A reversal could risk Canada selling the stock to the United States. If the policy holds, wartime four page papers may continue indefinitely.
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London
The
Observer
Canada
United States
Britain maps massive postwar demobilization plan
Labor Minister George Isaacs disclosed Britain will demobilize about 1.5 million service men and women by year end and roughly 3 million by June next year, outlining a large scale pullout as the war concludes.
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London
Britain
George Isaac
Finland's Rail Strike Averted by Military Training Call
In Helsinki all locomotive firemen and drivers were summoned for military training hours before a planned 4000 worker rail strike that would have halted Finland's railways. Government sources say strikers can now be ordered to work.
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Helsinki
Finland
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