Indian interim government crisis after stabbing shocks Delhi
Moslem League member Sir Shafi'at Ahmad Khan was stabbed seven times in New Delhi hours after his appointment, described as serious but not dangerous. The attack sparked Hindu Muslim clashes, a dusk to dawn curfew, and calls for unity as Nehru’s Congress leads the new interim government, with rioting in old Delhi and two dead.
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NEW DELHI
India
Simle Baturaay
Shafi
Ahmad Khan
league
waa
por Hon
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress party
Viscount Wavell
Britain
Sir Shafa'at
South Africa
Fie
Shefa'at Ahmad Khan
Hindustan Times
Nehru
Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi
England
select
Harrow
Trinity Colege
Cambridge
Left Hand Corner and Lord Wright’s War Crimes Role
The item notes Lord Wright away in Tokyo chairing the United Nations War Crimes commission while Sir William Kyffin Taylor covers his treasurer duties at Inner Temple. It highlights Sir William’s long career, age, and roles in Liverpool’s court of passage, railway and canal commissions, and Shropshire quarter sessions, plus a humorous quip about a brief summing up. The piece ends with a teaser about Iceland’s share, continued on page four.
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HILST Lord Wright
Tokyo
United Nations War Crimes commission
Inner Temple
William Kyffin Taylor
Liverpool
Liverpool College
Exeter College
Oxford
Sir William
Liverpool court of passage
railway and canal commisson
Shropshire
Bresions
Halifax Mayor Loses His Pen To Field Marshal
Halifax Aug 28 The mayor Ahern was shopping for a fountain pen at a civic luncheon. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery used the mayor's pen and signed autographs. Montgomery admired the pen and asked how it worked. The mayor suggested he keep the pen to try it.
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Halifax
HALIPAX
Ahern
Viscount Montgomery
Monty
Britain
Parliament fast tracks debate on CBC funding and radio board
In Ottawa on Saturday MPs pressed for an independent radio air waves board to oversee CBC operations amid a bill expanding CBC funding. Opposition MPs urged a CBC appeals board analogous to the transport panel while the government signaled it will drop several bills to speed the session, including flag design concurrence and a news service re establishment plan.
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OTTAWA
Canada
commons
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Social Credit
Thomas Reid
Westminster
C.B.C. board of governors
board of transport commissioners
veterans’ affairs department
juaior
charactr
C.C.F
Hughes Cleaver
senate
Canadian information service
Higher Estimates Sought by Veterans Dept in Canada
Ottawa reports Veterans Minister Mackenzie asked for 45,762,299 more in supplementary estimates after demobilization rates rose from 38,500 to about 63,000 monthly. This adds to 862,518,932 already approved. He noted peak spending may come next March with around 12,000 personnel still overseas.
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OTTAWA
Veterans
Mackenzie
veterans affairs department
Mackendie
Hugh Castleden
CCP
Yorkton
Sixteen Die In Weekend Accidents Across Eastern Canada
TORONTO Aug 26 CP A Canadian Press survey shows sixteen people died in weekend accidents across eastern Canada. Twelve deaths came from car accidents, three from drowning, and one from murder. Ten deaths were in Ontario, four in Quebec, and two in Nova Scotia.
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TORONTO
C.P
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
Nova Beotia
Constellation Returns to Service from La Guardia
In New York on August 26 the flat Lockheed Constellation resumed passenger service after grounding since July 12 due to two accidents. It departed La Guardia for London with 27 passengers aboard.
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NEW YORK
La Guardia field
London
Slavs Hurl Charges At G B And U S
Canadian Press reports Yugoslavia accuses Anglo American planes of 110 violations Aug 10 20 as three Americans killed in an Aug 19 transport shoot down, while U S diplomats probe Aug 9 downing and a second Aug 19 blaze. Moscow backs Yugoslavia and Britain weighs Greece intervention.
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Yugoslavia
United Sts
Yugoslav information
Frankfurt
Germany
Joseph T. McNarney
United States army
Viena
Udine
Italy
United States
Premier King Prepares Return To Canada From London
Prime Minister Mackenzie King said Paris talks may end satisfactorily but take time. He planned to sail from Southampton Tuesday after brief London talks with Attlee and Addison. A strong Canadian delegation remained in Paris to handle treaty clauses.
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LONDON
C.P. Cable
Mackenzie King
Paris
Southampton
Attlee
Viscount Addison
Lord Addison
Eric Machag
dominions
Mr. King
United Kingdom
King
Canada
France
Claxton
Atlantic
Pilot Burned in Vernon Plane Crash Ends in Fire
Vernon August 26 An aerial spray plane piloted by Robert Filtness of Vancouver crashed near Vernon airport killing the pilot and possibly causing the death of 1 year old Edward Lloyd who witnessed the wreck. The coroner's jury held death due to fire effects with no blame assigned.
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VERNON
B.c
Robert Putness
Vancouver
Edward Lloyd
Lloyd
Vernon tet thi arnt enetne
De Ripley
H Campbell-Brown
Filtness
Valley Air Services
Okanagan valley
R.A.F. ferry command
Canada
England
Walking Out Tactics Become Habit of Soviets
Paris August 26 Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov and Ukrainian counterpart Dmitri Manuilsky walked out of a second anniversary Paris liberation ceremony over seating that placed the United States Britain China and France in front rows while Soviet and Ukrainian delegates sat behind in alphabetical order. They left after Bidault arrived and the band played the French anthem, followed by reporters who offered no comment.
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PARIS
Molotov
Russia
Dmitri Manuilsky
liberation
United States
Soviet Union
Ukraine
Amerique
Georges Bidault
Bidault
Calls Upon USSR Justify Her Demands
An Australian delegate urged the peace conference to compel Russia to justify reparations demands and to authorize an on the spot investigation of former enemy capabilities using $960,000,000. Molotov said Russia is lenient in demanding $300,000,000 from Romania after widespread damage. The Italian commission approved two more preambular paragraphs of the draft treaty as debates continued on reservations and human rights.
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PARIS
Ressia
K. OR. Walker
economic commission for
Balkans
Molotov
Australia
RUSSIA
Romania
Netherlands
Aselbler
Yugoslavia
Italy
Mussolini
Germany
BiBB
commission
Sugodisri
English Primate Geoffrey Fisher Tours Canada in Halifax
Hundreds hear Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher preach in Halifax during a Canadian tour. Fisher received an honorary doctorate from the University of King's College, gave two sermons, and spoke to crowds both inside and outside churches. He affirmed imperial unity and Christian hope amid a joyous welcome.
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HALIFAX
Canterbury
Quebec
Canada
Mauretania
Geoffrey Francis Fisher
all England
University of King's College
Albertan Named to Young People's Council
Belleville Ont Aug 26 Dr Graham Hudson of Ottawa was elected president of the National Council of Young People's Unions of the United Church of Canada at the end of the council's week long conference at Albert College. Other officers included associate president Campbell Young Stavely Alta Christian Fellowship convener Evelyn Rintoul Moose Jaw Sask and Christian Missions convener Merle Geake Vancouver.
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Ont
Graham Hudson
Ottawa
Naional Council of Young People’s Unions
United Church of Canada
Albert College
Campbell Young
Stavely
Alta
Christian Fellowship
Evelyn Rintoul
Moose Jaw
Sask
Christian Missions
Merle Geake
Vancouver
Emergency Powers Act Expiry Stirs Canadian Debate
The Emergency Powers Act will expire 60 days after the start of the next session, with Bracken's amendment tying the date to a definite point. Prime Minister Mackenzie King warned parliament could dissolve before January end, risking chaotic conditions without new legislation to continue wartime controls. The bill moved to the Senate as discussions focus on authorizing continued price, wage, and other controls.
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Bracken
senate
St Laurent
Canada
Mackenzie King
Hamilton Pickets In Hamilton Resist Plant Forcing Lines
Hamilton workers and sympathetic unions stage picket lines at the Steel Company of Canada plant. Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Ontario Provincial Police expected to reinforce amid rising tensions. Workers from Frost Steel and Wire and other firms walk out in solidarity as authorities promise order.
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Millard
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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culal de pone ve
Steel Company of Canada
bYne Vale Steel orkers
Mneton
Frost Steel and Wire
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B. Greening Wire
Intaguel Barwenter Company
Frost
Hamilton stretta
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onder
Monty Ends Halifax Visit Heads to P E L
Field Marshal Montgomery completes a two day Halifax stay and prepares to fly to Charlottetown aboard a Dakota. He tours the base, greets airmen, and waves from the plane while praising Canadian soldiers and the Dieppe operation as a necessary prelude to Europe invasion. His mother’s condition worsens in Belfast after a stroke.
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Viscount Montgomery
Atlantic
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midier
Dieppe
Europe
Halifax harbor
eastern passage
Canada
naval air arm
R.C.A
Charlottetown
Monty
No decision reached on 1947 beet subsidy in Canada
Ottawa ministerial officials said no subsidy decision had been made for the 1947 beet crop. MP John Diefenbaker asked if, amid higher West Indies sugar costs, Canada might grant a similar aid to boost production, but parliamentary assistant Robert Mayhew noted beet sugar costs and prices, with policy for the 1947 crop still pending.
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OTTAWA
Robert Maynew
mentary
John Diefenbaker
Lake Centre
West Indies
Canada
United States
DMr
Mayhew
Payments For 1943 Wheat Certificates Made
Trade Minister MacKinney announced that participation payments for 1943 wheat certificates are being issued and processed swiftly. He stated the price for No 1 Northern wheat is 12.146 cents per bushel, covering other grades. The report also notes political commentary from the Mos cow radio on Greek elections and Anglo American positions.
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OTTAWA
Aus
C.P
MacKinney
Plot to blow Chatsworth tunnel investigated
Southern Pacific Railroad special agents said on Saturday they received information about a plot to blow the Chatsworth tunnel in the San Fernando Valley. A detailed search of the area found no evidence of tampering.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
trey hag
mille long Chatsworth
San Pernando Valley
che tore
Resignation of Justice A F Ewing Sent to Ottawa
Edmonton August 26 resignation of Syeasebd Dar Justice A F Ewing from Alberta supreme court appellate division sent to Ottawa justice department officials. Ewing ill in bed family quotes. no comment from him. Senate Banking Committee reverses decision on tax exemptions for senators and MPs. Montreal school opening delayed due to infantile paralysis outbreak. Edmonton reports sixth polio case a girl aged 11. Calgary subcommittees resume talks on coal labor proposals with United Mine Workers and operators.
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C.F
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G. M. Little
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Aus
C.P
United Mine Workers of America
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