Lidice Remembered Twenty Years After Nazi Massacre
Twenty years after Nazi forces razed Lidice in reprisal for Heydrichs assassination, a garden of friendship with 29000 rose bushes and a memorial tower was erected near the old village site. Surviving women and children returned home, and the world recalls the massacre that strengthened anti Nazi resistance.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Lidice
Adolf Hitler
Prague
Free Czechoslovak Army
Reinhard Heydrich
Czechoslovakia
Heydrich
Ravensbrueck
Auschwitz
Trouble in Fiji as Indian population dominates sugar trade
Suva report notes 205 068 Indians and 172 455 Fijians on Viti Levu with Indian birthrate higher than Fijians. Indians growing 95 percent of Fiji sugar under contract to South Pacific Sugar Mills. eight year contract accepted by most growers though economy weakened. 1961 imports rose while exports fell. copra and banana prices dropped.
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Suva
Fiji
Pacific Airlines
Viti Levu
South Pacific Sugar Mills, Ltd
Commission of
New Zealand
Britain faces hard trade choice under Common Market
Britain must decide whether to join the European Common Market, a move that could end the long established profitable trade pattern within the Commonwealth. The piece traces this tension back to Colonial times when London ruled India and shaped Commonwealth relations.
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Britain
Britain Faces Pivot as Common Market Threatens Empire Links
The article outlines Britain's dilemma joining a six-nation European market while preserving low duty access for Commonwealth goods. It details likely tariff shifts, impacts on Canada Australia New Zealand India and Hong Kong, and warns of a potential Commonwealth fallout but notes long term adaptability and slow European union progress.
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England
Britain
Asia
Africa
Americas
Europe
Southwest Pacific
South Africa
Ottawa
English Channel
New Zealand
India
Pakistan
Hong Kong
Polish Crops Ravaged by Record Rainfall Across Poland
In May Poland endured the wettest month in two centuries with 7.2 inches of rain in central regions. A 45acre farm run by Ewa Laskowska and family reports extensive losses including potatoes onions cabbage and beets with piglets dying and cows unable to graze. Taxes rose 16 000 zlotys adding to hardship as Gomulka reported grim news to Moscow affecting trade and aid talks with the United States.
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Poland
Edward Laskowski
Laskowskis
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Moscow
Western Europe
U. S
Yugoslavia
Paraguay’s Dictator Ruling by Siege and Exile
Paraguay under Alfredo Stroessner has endured a state of siege for 13 years, with elections framed as free by Stroessner. Emigration, mainly to Argentina, has displaced up to half the population, as opposition leaders and critics flee a tightly controlled regime.
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Robert Berrellez
Asuncion
Paraguay
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Alfredo Stroessner
Strressner
Stroessner
Pyragues
University Hospital
Canadian Dollar Issue Shapes Canadian Election
In the June 18 election, Liberal Lester Pearson attacks Conservative rule under John Diefenbaker who devalued the dollar seven weeks before polling. The campaign features claims of wasted years and calls to return Canada to progress with a Liberal victory, as Ontario and Quebec are pivotal battlegrounds.
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Arthur F. Wolf
Ottawa
Lester B. Pearson
Liberal Party
Canada
Conservative
John Diefenbaker
Pearson
Diefenbaker
Liberals
New Democratic
Louis St. Laurent
St. Laurent
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Commonwealth
Robert Menzies
Brussels
K. B. Lall
Australia
Warsaw
Ewa Laskowska
Trujillo
Batista
Dominican Republic
Cuba
Ontario
Quebec
Conservatives
West
PSC Sy Inwan YS
Mies
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
N. Main
S. Main
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