Laval and the Tide of Empire to Commonwealth Shift
A reflective piece argues that Laval’s trial reflects a broader trend toward dismantling empires into commonwealths. It notes Britain leading toward a commonwealth of nations with India, while colonies rely on mother countries for support until global peace eliminates fears of big-power aggression. It discusses blood ties and the fate of small dependencies amid anti colonial rebellions in Java and Indo China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Java
Indo- China
Britain
Ong
British Commonwealth of Nations
India
Marines Leave North China Very Soon
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek announced at a press conference that United States Marines would be withdrawn from north China soon after relief by Chinese central government forces. He said he hopes to visit the United States and other powers when time permits and expected Soviet troops in Manchuria to depart under the Sino-Soviet pact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Unitedtates
North
China
Chiang
United States
Britain
Russia
France
Manchuria
Hsiung Shih-Hui
Peiping
Nan
Ptomaine Poison Patients Said To Be Improving
In Asheville on October 15 four Wilson children aged 16 14 9 and 3 were reported in fair condition at St. Jo hospital after ptomaine poisoning that killed their seven year old sister Jane Ella yesterday at a home near a Creek section. Coroner J Curtis Crump said the illness and death were due to ptomaine poisoning. Funeral rites for Jane Ella were held yesterday and she was buried in Greenhill cemetery.
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Asheville
Wilson
Harry Lee
Mary Elizabeth
George
Edith Joyce
St. Jo= hospital
J. Curtis Crump
Jane Ella
Rs. K. W. Wilson
Ood
Little Jane Ella
Greenhill Cemetery
Laval Executed For Treason In Paris Courtyard
Paris October 15 Pierre Laval former head of Petain's Vichy regime was executed as a traitor. He died from a coup de grace after a failed poison intake and a firing squad volley. He cried vive la France and refused a blindfold before a twelve man firing squad. His trial had included a sitdown strike and courtroom ejections before his death at 12 32 p m EST.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
France
Marshal Petain
Fresnes
Laval
la France
High Court of Justice
J Darnand
Petain
Darnand
Vichy
Vinson Urges Large 1946 Tax Cut with 1947 Limits
Secretary Vinson asked for a 5 billion dollar tax cut for 1946 and warned House provisions could add about 2 billion more in 1947. He testified to the Senate Finance Committee, citing a nearly 5.175 billion reduction proposed earlier and urging restraint given ongoing high expenditures. He stressed peacetime full employment and taxpayer relief as guiding aims.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Vinson
House
Senate Finance Committee
House Ways and Means Committee
Tax cutting before Congress sparks 1947 tax clash
Washington reports House action to cut 1946 taxes by 2 billion dollars and plans another 2 billion off the 1947 bill. Critics warn the 1947 cuts go too far while senators weigh Pearl Harbor probes and demobilization. Dr. Vannevar Bush urges caution on atomic bomb defense.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Vinson
House
Ee Ieee
Senate
Pearl Harbor
Vannevar Bush
Scientific Brain Trust
Bush
Office of Scien
Black Market Of Germany Bounds Back After Raid
Berlin reports a crowded Tiergarten black market despite a mass raid that captured 2000 people Saturday. Russian British and American soldiers shopped there while German civilians dominated arrests. 25 Tiergarten operators await trial.
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Germany
Berlin
Tiergarten
Red Army
Red Army Oe
Pulic
Hustoy
Dutch official eyes truce with Indonesian rebels in Java
Dr. Hubertus Van Mook the acting Dutch governor general signaled willingness to meet rebel leaders including Soekarno to discuss a possible truce as unrest tightens around Batavia Java. Government departures and British aid plans to speed troops to Java were reported alongside wartime hostages and new violence in the interior.
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Batavia
Java
Hubertus van Moor
Dutch East Indies
Aneta
van Mook
Indoesia
Soekarno
Hague
A.W.L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
Indies
van Stargenborgh Stachouwer
Schermerhorn
Reuters
London
Europe
D.C. Hawthorn
Holland
Annamites Are Repulsed By British Troops
Saigon Indo China October 14 delayed four o clock report says rebellious Annamites failed in their boldest thrust at the capital as British troops drove them back from the outskirts of Saigon airport and repulsed an attempted crossing. French forces broke up an Annamite infiltrating effort into the market area of downtown Saigon after mortar and machine gun fire. British forces pressed to extend a line of communication beyond Saigon to disarm openly urgent urgents and foreseen 70 000 forces.
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Saigon
Indo-China
River Ande
Viet Minh Party
Popular Front
Japan Ends All Combat Forces Amid Demobilization
The article notes Japan completing demobilization and holding no combat troops for the first time in history. It reports Allied evidence of former troops using live prisoners for bayonet practice in Guadalcanal and China and mentions political leaders moving to introduce democratic principles under Allied direction.
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Russell
Pos
Ondalcanal
China
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Emperor Hirohito
Vandenberg Gains Prestige in Two-Year Survey
Chicago October 15 The Republican official publication reports Sen Arthur H Vandenberg Michigan rose in party prestige by 40 percent since 1943 due to foreign policy stance Dewey dropped in popularity John Bricker Harold Stassen Leverett Saltonstall Earl Warren also rated highly in the survey of potential leaders.
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Chicago
Republican Party
Today
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Rmich
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Vandenberg
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Navy
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Earl Warren
California
Twenty Five Female Patients Moved From Dix Hill To Sutton
Twenty five female patients were moved from Dix Hill to the state hospital’s new Camp Sutton extension. They are among about 500 to be transferred from Dix Hill and Morganton in the coming months with roughly 200 going to Sutton within 30 to 45 days. The Luton unit, leased from the government after a military camp closure, was opened to ease congestion in Raleigh and Morganton.
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Dix Hill
Sutton
Raleigh
State Hospitals
Camp Sutton
Morganton
Luton
Strike Lines Shrink as Massachusetts Seizes Railways
The nation's strike lines fell slightly below 400,000 the lowest in weeks as Massachusetts seized strikebound street railways and New York longshoremen returned to work.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
New York
Britain’s dock strike may end with Thursday return
A senior union official said Britain's thousands of striking dock workers likely will resume work Thursday, ending a three week walkout that halted shipping and risked tightening rations. Most London strikes voted to return pending wage demand negotiations.
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London
Britain
Unsettled Labor Strikes Hit Hundreds of Thousands
The piece reports major labor turmoil affecting about 200000 miners in six states and 61000 northwest lumber workers with some settlement prospects, plus 3000 to 7000 movie workers. The 400000 total span across 32 states and Illinois accounts for 11885.
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Northwest
Illinois
Allied Prisoners Used as Bayonet Practice, Tokyo Reports
Tokyo reports reveal live Allied prisoners of war were used for bayonet practice with Allied officers forced to watch. Accounts from ATIS, based on Japanese prisoner interviews, cite brutal incidents on Guadalcanal and in China, where prisoners were tied, blinded, and killed.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Guadalcanal
ATIS
Tokahashi Nakino
China
Nakino
Saburo Sano
Tension Bases In Argentina Situation
Civilian General Prosecutor Juan Alvarez, named minister of the interior by President Farrell, is to organize a cabinet of notables to steer the country through a crisis following Vice President Peron's resignation. General Avalos and Vice Admiral Vernengo Lima are already named members. Alvarez will fill vacancies with prominent civilians after offering posts to several figures.
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Buenos Aires
Juan Alvarez
Farrell
Argentina
Juan Peron
Alvarez
Eduardo Avalos
Vernengo Lima
Avalos
Prisoner Attack Allegations Highlight Belsen Trial
At Lueneburg an SS supervisor Herta Ehlert testified she allowed prisoners to attack a camp spy Helena Kopper, triggering laughter and a threat to move the Belsen war crimes trial behind closed doors by Maj. Gen. Berney. The court demanded dignity or a closed session.
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Lueneberg
Belsen
H. P. M. Berney
Herta Ehlert
Helena Kopper
Ehlert
Truman Calls War Labor Board To White House Conference
President Truman summoned the entire War Labor Board to a White House conference to discuss the board's future role in wage policy and labor disputes. Secretaries Schwellenbach and reconversion chief John W. Snyder were invited. The board had planned a six member delegation but the president ordered the full membership to attend. The board is expected to dissolve around mid December.
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Washington
Truman
War Labor Board
White House
Schwellenbach
John W. Snyder
War Labor Board to Wind Down by January 1
Acting Chairman Lloyd Garrison said the War Labor Board will stop operations by January 1 while still studying reconversion dispute handling and a peacetime wage policy. Secretary Schwellenbach and President Truman discussed wage policy and dispute handling as an industry labor conference is set for November 5.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Lloyd
Wage board members head to the White House role call
Acting Chairman Lloyd K. Garrison leads a list of WLB members including Dr. Frank P. Graham and Nathan P. Fein singer while Ray Mee Call and John Leonard represent labor unions. The article notes Truman’s aim to dissolve the WLB but unrest may push to retain a postwar wage formula akin to the wartime Little Steel plan. Schwellenbach guided key disputes through conciliations before navy seizures and union talks with John L. Lewis over mine foremen.
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Lloyd K. Garrison
White House
Frank P. Graham
Lewis M. Gill
Nathan P. Feinsinger
Edwin E. Witte
Ray MeeCall
The
Teamsters
John Leonard
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway
AFL
Neil Brant Thomas
United Electrical Workers
Carl Shipley
United Auto Workers
CIO
Earl N. Cannon
George Bahrs
Clarence O. Skinner
Vincent P. Ahearn
Truman
WLB
Schwellenbach
Oir
John L. Lewis
Typhoon Death Toll Rises Across Pacific Regions
The typhoon death toll includes 28 U S navy personnel and seven Japanese POWs on Okinawa and 184 people in western Japan. Six sailors died and 23 injured in an Okinawa explosion. Thousands homeless, 350 bridges destroyed, rice fields badly damaged. The storm left 70 missing and 423 injured overall.
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Associated Press
West Pacific
U. S. Navy
Ok Inawa
Japan
Fleet Headquarters
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Okinawa
U. S. Army
Washington
Japanese Home Ministry
Army
Pacific
Manila
Yokedle
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Warsaw
Poland
Henry L. Griffin
North China
Coup de Grace
Congress
Sano
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