National Trust Jubilee Highlights Britain’s Historic Heritage
The piece traces the National Trust jubilee and its role in preserving England’s historic places. Woolsthorpe Manor and many landmarks across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland are highlighted along with key founders and a growing donor base.
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Britain
National Trust
Lincolnshire
Woolsthorpe Manor
England
Woolsthorpe
Royal Society
Pilgrim Trust
Newton
National Trust For
Octavia Hill
Robert Hunter
Canon Rawnsley
Lake District
Great Playground
Lakeland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Theas
Avebury
Wiltshire
Europe
Fsham
Sussex
Whch
Harold
Normandy
Runnymede
John
Southwark
London
Kent
St. John's Jerusalem
Knights Hospitallers
Swanton Morley
Norfolk
Abraham Lincoln
John Winant
U.S.A
Quebec House
Westerham
General Wolfe
Juniper Hall
Box Hill
Madame de Arblay
Lord Astor
Cliveden
Middle Thames
Trust
Scafell Pike
East Anglia
Devon
Cornwall
Rommel's Horse Finds Rest in British Stables
The famed Arabian stallion linked to the Desert Fox is now housed at Windsor Castle. Captured in North Africa by Montgomery's Eighth Army, the horse was moved to a remount depot in Melton Mowbray and is being trained for royal processions. Radar aids hurricane tracking to warn areas and save lives.
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New York
Erwin Rommel
Cairo
Windsor Castle
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
North Africa
Lord Montgomery
Eight
Afrika Korps
Melton Mowbray
German Spy Ring Exposed in American Occupation Zone
United States intelligence broke up a ring of fifteen Germans believed to act as undercover agents for Soviet Russia in the Stuttgart Frankfurt area. The group reportedly belonged to a secret organization called Free Germany and was dismantled after months of covert activity. Ring leader Walter Kazmarek was said to have ties to Russian agents and to have received money in the past. The discovery was announced by counter intelligence officers in Stuttgart and at American Army headquarters in Frankfurt.
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Stuttgart
Germany
United States
Soviet Russia
United States Army
Frankfurt
Free Germany
Walter Kazmarek
The Small Farm and its Rising Independence
The piece argues the family farm offers home, sustenance, and modest living advantages over urban wage earners. It envisions wartime jeep adaptations powering small farms and family travel, predicting thousands of 5 to 40 acre farms near Canadian cities, citing irrigated blocks near Lethbridge as examples.
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Lethbridge
Modern speed versus needs and the fifth column term
The Ottawa Journal notes a jet flight from New York to Boston covering about 200 miles in 21 minutes and 51 seconds. It questions whether modern innovation overemphasizes speed while neglecting more pressing needs. It also mentions that the term fifth column was first used by Spanish General Mola in the Spanish Civil War.
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Ottawa Journal
New York
Boston
Mola
France Faces Revolutionary Change in Its Empire
George Slocombe argues the French Empire undergoes restless nationalist shifts as Arab Indian and African movements push autonomy. He notes Indo China Algeria and North Africa as hot spots where colonial policy must adapt, detailing tension between assimilation and self rule within a proposed French Union.
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George Slocombe
New York Herald Tribune
Middle East
Far East
France
French Union
Indo- China
North Africa
Vichy
Empire
de Gaulle
Indo-China
India
China
Indonesia
Siam
Egypt
Central Africa
French Equatorial Africa
Martinique
Senegal
Chamber of Deputies
Tunisia
Negro Africa
Algeria
Europe
Marius Moutet
Georges Bidault
Wartime rubber ban lifted for sports balls worldwide
United States authorities announce ending the wartime ban on natural rubber usage in sporting goods including baseball golf tennis and squash balls. Other notes mention York 700 year ecclesiastical archives discovery, Clyde ship launches in June, London garden plots harvest, and British children of German-residing parents to spend Christmas with families.
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United States
Lacy Filet Crochet Hostess Apron Pattern 7489
A lacy hostess apron uses trebles for a light background. Pansies on an open mesh background create a striking filet crochet look. Pattern 7489 includes directions and chart. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Depart ment Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man to obtain pattern.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Ancient Egyptian game akin to checkers dated 1600 B.C.
A historical note states Egyptians played a board game similar to checkers as early as 1600 B.C., indicating early strategy games in ancient Nile regions and suggesting cultural sophistication in this period.
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