Truman Doctrine turns one year old amid Cold War crisis
Washington reports mark one year since the Truman Doctrine guiding policy against Soviet pressure. Greece and Turkey received aid totaling hundreds of millions, with calls for more military and economic support as Europe eyes a Western pact. The measure spurred partial success and fears of widening conflict. Czechoslovakia considered for IMF aid, with potential withdrawal of a portion of its quota if approved.
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United Staties teaay
Evi
efce
United States
Russia
Tremanin
congress
Greece
Turkey
Middle East
France
Europe
ege
state department
Marshall
Canada moves to bar foreign Communists from labor field
Ottawa declares a government policy to crack down on Communist labor activity arriving from abroad, notably the United States. External Affairs Minister Louis St Laurent says aliens will be stopped at the border and permits may lapse for those already in Canada, with at least one UK Communist denied entry.
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United States
Louis St. Laurent
Canada
U.S
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Canadien Congress of Labor
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International Union of Mite
CCL
Congress
man haluns
Mr. St. Laurent
Marty Pollitt
British Communist party
Ottawa horticulture boss Dr Chan eyes spring bloom
The Left Hand Corner profiles Dr Han Chan head of floriculture research at Central Experimental Farm Ottawa. The Chinese Canadian, born in Montreal, earned degrees at McGill and Macdonald College before a PhD at Ohio State. He arrived in Ottawa December 27 and oversees greenhouses filled with daffodils and carnations heralding spring.
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Central Experimental Farm
Han Chan
Ottawa
Ottawa Valley
Ottawa Citizen
Chan
Montreal
Macdonald College
McGill University
Macdonald
Ohio State University
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Obo
SPENSTERS i
Peterborough Examiner
mar
Western Europe unity plan tops House of Commons session
London report shows 73 MPs from five parties backing a resolution for a Western Europe constitutional convention and a democratic federation. Churchill pledged to seek two days of debate. The plan calls for a council of 16 participating states and a charter of human rights. Funeral notice follows for John Hollister Sheppard in Calgary.
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LONDON
Europe
house of commons
European recovery plan
Germany
democratic federation of Europe
R. W. G. MacKay
Mackay
Hull
north-west
Sydney University
Australia
commonwealth party
Fifty-One Bodies Recovered After Helvetia Sinking
In Santiago, March 1247, fifty-one bodies were recovered from the excursion steamer Helvetia which sank yesterday in the Imperial River. Two bodies are yet to be identified.
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Chile
Helvetia
Imperal
Split Wheat Board Bill Split Wheat Board Bill
Ottawa march 12 three government measures including veterans pensions extending powers of the Canadian wheat board and new excise taxes were debated in the commons. ministers outlined steps to speed pension cheques while opposition groups warned against socialization of western farming. the bill was to be divided into two parts to expedite action with the wheat price increase provisions moving forward.
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OTTAWA
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veterans committee
L. Fraser Valley
Grese
wheat board
Howe
J. A. Ross
P.C. Souris
P.C
Calgary West
Progressive Conservative party
Benelux Pact Agreed On Western Union Move
Britain and the Benelux nations adopt a 50 year pact for a political economic and military union to check communism. The accord is to be signed next Wednesday by Belgium Britain France Luxembourg and The Netherlands with a joint fire power body and mutual aid provisions. Moscow papers denounce the Brussels conference as plans for an American backed Western Europe federation against the Soviet Union.
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France
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Netherlands
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ohe
deleganvqon
Briain
George
GEEREMANE
Germany
Brussels
MOSCOW
Izvestia
United States
Observer
Sorina Sy Seshek
agaist
USS
Soviet Union
Backdoor Socialism Sparks Alberta Legislature Debate
Edmonton reports former Alberta education minister C. R. E Ansley accused Liesemer of a back door method to push socialism into the country. Liesemer's motion urged Wheat Board control of all coarse grains and government enabling legislation if needed. Farm groups and critics warned not all farmers speak for all farmers.
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C. R. E Ansley
Alberta
A. I.E. Liesemer
C.CF
Calgary
Liesemer
Canadian Wheat Board
Elmer Eoper
Ainsley
C. L Savers
S.C_—_Camrose
assembly
Camrese
David Tre
S.C
Red Geer
Agricultural school site in Alberta remains uncertain
Edmonton reports the provincial government has funds for an agricultural school this year but its location is undecided with strongest speculation centering on a Peace River site rather than Lethbridge Taber Browks or other southern towns. J C Halmrast MELA for Warner advocates a southern campus at Lethbridge.
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Peace River
Lethbtidse
Taber
Browks
J. C. Halmrast
MELA
Warner
Lethbridge
Full Steam Ahead on Alberta Water Project Talks
Edmonton March 12 There is no signed agreement between the Dominion and Alberta though verbal understandings exist. PFRA engineers survey canal routes from East Pot Hole Coulee dam near Magrath to Chin storage reservoir feeding Taber Irrigation District and East Taber extension toward Grassy Lake Burdett Bow Island. Manitoba fears affectations to Nelson River water and holds back. A joint water board for Dominion and prairie provinces cannot form until a full agreement is reached. FULL STEAM continued on Page Two.
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Alberta
PFRA
Pot Hole Coulee
Magrath
Chin
Taber
East Taber
Grassy Lake- Burdett
Bow Island
Manitoba
Nelson River
Albert
Tories Win In Croydon Big Majority
The Conservative candidate Fred W Barris won the North Croydon by election with 36 208 votes to Labour Anther Harold Nicholson 24 536. Liberal Donaldson Bennett trailed with 6 321 votes. The by election filled a vacancy from H C Willink retirement and widened Conservative seats in Parliament amid 12 009 new voters.
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North Croydon
Fred W. Barris
Anther Harold Nicholson
Donaldson Bennett
H.C. Willink
Labor party
Labor
apse of commons
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Willink
Wiillink
Magdalene College
Cambridge
G. Bilson
J. M. Howard
Bennett
Reuters
Britain
Croydon
Midwest March Blizzard Stalls Cars and Halts Gas Service
A severe March blizzard swept the U.S. Midwest and drifted into Ohio and Pennsylvania. Cleveland faced heavy snow with hundreds of stalled cars, while eastern Ohio gas service to about 600 industrial users was stopped. Chicago recorded up to two feet of snow on the south lakefront.
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Midwest
Ohio
Pennsylvania
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East Ohio Gas Cn
Chicago
Senator Mackenzie to Receive Honorary Degree at Edinburgh
Senator Ian Mackenzie former Canadian minister of veterans affairs will be awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by the University of Edinburgh on July 2 as announced here.
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C.P.j
Ian Mackenzie
veterans’ affairs
University of Edinburgh
Truman Faces Global Crisis with Full U.S. Power
President Truman outlined a five point plan to curb Communism and restore stability as Marshall warned of a world crisis. He stressed protecting world peace, promoting Western European recovery, forming political associations in the region, and blocking communist influence including in China.
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ASHINGTON
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Russia
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China
Mourners Fill Two Miles for Czech Leader Jan Masaryk
In Prague a line two miles long of mourners filed to the Cernin Palace to lay flowers on the bier of Jan Masaryk who died last Wednesday. The crowd passed Masaryk's body in state from dawn to 5 PM. At the same time the government pressed a Communist backed program of reorganization and legislation as Parliament prepared to organize committees and grant posts. A second suicide of a non Communist official, Josef Berod, was reported as the regime tightened control.
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Czer- Hin
Fortsgn Minktrr
Jan Masaryk
Masaryk
Hradcany Mountain
Josef Berod
Swerlin
Desa
Rudolf Slansky
Commuunist International Information Bureau
Klement Gottwald
Morava
sud Herod
Moravska Obstraiva
National Socisitst party
Czech Socialist party
Govt Presses For Higher Pensions
EDMONTON March 12 Five speakers supported a resolution demanding a $100 basic pension for disabled veterans and won unanimous approval in the legislature. L. D. Ward presented the measure with Gordon Taylor seconding. other speakers included W. J. Whams Harper Prowse and F. C. Colborze, all veterans of the Second World War.
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L. D. Ward
Gordon Taylor
Social Credit
W. J. WHams
Harper Prowse
F.C. Colborze
force
navy
U S Officer Convicted in Inducement Case
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers found guilty on all three counts for inducing a witness before a Senate committee in a wartime role as deputy purchasing chief. Judge Holszoff set sentencing for Monday. maximum possible is 39 years.
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WASHINGTON
Bennett E. Meyers
Hete
senate
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Holszoff
Meyes
MONCTON
Clifford DeKoche
CZECHOSLOVAKIAHOF
Germany
brock
United States
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C.P
Canada
Mitchell
Rockies
Brim Columbia
United Nations security council
Czechoslovakia
Jan Papaniek
Trygve Lie
U.N
Jan Masarykaied
Prague
Papanek
Chile
Gabriel Gomsaien Videla
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