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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1946
Page
10
Meat supplies shrink nationwide as stores reduce meat offerings. Officials move to curb black market activity and restore slaughter quotas to stabilize distribution while retail prices stay at ceiling levels.
Vice Adm. Blandy states the Bikini atom bomb tests will cost no more than 110.9 million dollars, rejects higher estimates, and argues tests are essential for learning weapon use. He frames the tests as defensive and cautions against interpreting them as martial gestures while noting possible variations in test outcomes.
The Big Four foreign ministers plan a Paris meeting to gauge Russia’s conduct and its impact on postwar Europe. Byrnes stands firm on expanding Soviet influence while warning against entangling alliances. The talks could shape the May peace conference and Europe’s political landscape.
Berlin observers outline three Moscow theories on global policy. The dominant view, led by Stalin, sees constant conflict with capitalism, while Litvinov favors peaceful coexistence and a third wait-and-see approach urges internal buildup. The all powerful Politburo guides foreign policy.
Grim outlook from Justice Jackson in New York forum warns a new world war must be prevented where past wars began in Europe. Reports note ongoing conflicts in Manchuria Palestine and elsewhere with famine and rationing shaping the postwar era as Hoover touts U S food relief and potential American rationing implications.
A jumble of brief items from around the globe notes population changes in Hiroshima and a Johannesburg gold strike. London features a sailor shaking hands with Nelson’s statue, a burglar case ends in a small fine, and a mystery about bread and violet frosting prompts a joking exchange.
A Radio Moscow report claims the Ku Klux Klan has resumed harmful activities in the United States. It compares the Klan as an American fore runner of Italian Fascism and German Nazism and asserts early direct contacts with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that allegedly persisted throughout their regimes.
Dr. Quo Tai-Chi of China hands over the gavel to Dr. Hafez Afifi Pasha of Egypt as the Security Council seeks new leadership. Afifi Pasha, a first time chair, becomes the fourth chairman since the council began rotating by country.
In Shanghai seven ring leaders of a Nazi spy ring operating in the Orient were arrested. The nation’s first permanent commercial television network is planned in New York, Washington and Philadelphia with Pittsburgh Cleveland and Cincinnati slated and a coast-to-coast network later. Prime Minister Attlee proposes bonuses up to 500 to men who re enlist in the British armed forces for three to four years.
President Truman calls the atomic age a great but dangerous venture urging all American republics to play their part. Capt. Leslie Gehres at Naval Air Station San Diego bans public displays of affection, noting necking may be enjoyable but is not an outdoor daytime sport.
The United States offers to transport up to 500 000 tons of grain Russia pledged to sell to France, aiming to influence June 2 elections. Paris notes U S and Canada shipped 1 7 million tons to France and North Africa in 1945 and 1946 first half 1 8 million tons agreed. France and Russia exchange diplomacy after Thorez appeal. Marseilles welcomed first Russian ship April 7 despite an American Liberty ship arriving first.
The War Department announces two new wartime science advances the snooperscope and sniperscope enabling night vision and helmet mounted viewing. A metal lens focuses radio waves into a pencil beam to reduce enemy jamming with high frequency waves near five million cycles.
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