United Nations site fight shifts to Westchester and Fairfield
The UNO proposes a 2 to 40 square mile site within Westchester and Fairfield Counties to host the permanent world capital. A planning commission will study the two counties and present cost estimates and recommendations at the next General Assembly meeting. Debates raged over compromise while Australia and Middle East delegates push for alternative venues. Greenwich residents voiced opposition and concerns about protests at any interim New York site.
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New York
Pedro Lopez
Philippines
Greenwich
Secret wartime tech showcased with Eniac and tiny ink circuits
The government revealed advanced wartime developments including Eniac the fast electronic computer and a silver ink circuit printing process for miniature radio and radar sets. Eniac weighs 30 tons, costs $400,000, and performs complex calculations at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Additional civilian models are planned.
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National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Ley Field
Cardinals-Designate Travel to Rome for Consistory
Thirty-two cardinals-designate gathered this week for the consistory where they will receive red hats from Pope Pius XII and join the sacred College of Cardinals. Five designate cardinals flew by transatlantic plane, including Bishop Thomas Tien of China and Archbishops Francis J. Spellman of New York John J. Glennon of St. Louis Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago and Edward J. Mooney of Detroit.
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China
Thomas Tien
Francis J. Spellman
New York
John J. Glennon
St. Louis
Samuel A. Stritch
Chicago
Edward J. Mooney
Detroit
Ickes Resigns and Yalta Pact News Highlighted
Interior Secretary Harold Ickes resigns. Southern senators win a fight over the Fair Employment Practices bill. A secret Yalta agreement grants Russia Kuriles and southern Sakhalin if it joins the war against Japan. War Dept backs Gen Mark Clark over the Rapido River crossing during Italy operations. NYC police veteran Lewis Valentine accepts MacArthur plan to reorganize Japan's civilian police.
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Orce
Labor, capital argued in Lincoln era quotes
Senator Glen H Taylor cites Lincoln's 1861 annual message asserting labor's primacy and capital as the fruit of labor. Charles E Wilson of General Motors counters that ability to pay cannot justify excessive wages.
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War Crimes Trial Sentences Homma to Death by Musketry
General Homma, found guilty of war atrocities including the Bataan Death March, is sentenced by a five-man Manila tribunal to be shot to death with musketry after a secret ballot. The proceedings followed Yamashita’s case as Japan’s Philippines commander. Separately in Nuremberg, Russian prosecutors accuse Axis forces of killing 1,650,000 in Yugoslavia, citing Hitler orders for annihilation by day and night air attacks.
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Tomoyuki Yamashita
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Philippines
Nuernberg
Yugoslavia
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Belgrade
Consistory Dates and International Celebrations Noted
A dated list from Rome marks a Consistory of the Sacred College of Cardinals on February 18 followed by observances in the United States and elsewhere. It notes Washington's Birthday on February 22 Red Army Day February 23 Brazil Constitution Day and mentions Argentine elections.
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Food relief and rationing in postwar Europe
President Truman outlines a nine point national food relief program to aid war-ravaged Europe while Americans face adjustments at home. The review details calorie targets, meat rationing, and shifts to cream colored bread, plus varying levels of malnutrition across Austria Hungary Bulgaria Finland and other nations under UNRRA guidance. Shipments of livestock and seed grains offer cautious optimism for the next harvest.
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Emergency Economic Committee For Europe
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Bulgaria
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Denmark
Britain
Poland
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Stalin cites new Five Year Plan to outpace US by 1950
Stalin unveils a fourth Five Year Plan aiming to raise Soviet industry to par with the United States as of 1944. He defends doubling steel and coal output since 1913, touts wartime victory, and argues capitalism fuels war. He warns peaceful cooperation with western democracies is impossible under capitalism and predicts the USSR may lead the world by 1950.
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Nation in Crisis as Strikes Paralyze Major Cities
Across New York Philadelphia and Pittsburgh a wave of postwar strikes halted transport and power, shutting theaters, schools, and offices. Mayor O'Dwyer ordered drastic fuel and industry restrictions while the government seeks a wage price formula to calm steel, automotive and electrical appliance disputes.
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Truman
Americans Question Nazi Trials At Nurnberg
In Frankfurt an American Army poll shows German civilians oppose indicting groups like Storm Troopers and doubt all Nazis on trial should be convicted, with Rudolf Hess singled out as a notable exception. In Alma Georgia a 26 year old mother has borne ten children in nine months, including quadruplets born May 15 1945 who died prematurely, and twins this week. In Los Angeles riot squads were called as teens toppled counters in a downtown department store amid a blue jean sale.
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Storm Troopers
Rudolf Hess
Alma
John T. Lee
Los Angeles
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