Gandhi Fears World Crisis and Hopes India Leads Peace
In a Delhi interview Gandhi warned the UN may not secure lasting peace and feared a new global showdown. He said fear grips minds but if India progresses well, the world could enjoy a long peace. He urged Britain to leave India and urged Jews and Arabs to seek dialogue over Palestine.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
United Nations
India
Palestine
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Gandhi
Delhi
Britain
South Africa
Paris Cabinet Shakeup Reshapes French Politics
Premier Ramadier ousts five Communist ministers after a 360 to 186 confidence vote. Radical Socialist Yvon Delbos becomes defence minister with Lacoste moved to labor. Communists amid Renault strike demands and wage protests. Paris and Madagascar security moves noted as France enters a new phase with clear anti Communist divisions.
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Mar
Paul Ramader
Communist party
Thorez
Francois Billoux
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Charles Tillon
reconstruction
Ambroise Croizat
labor
Georges Marrane
Mouvement Republican Populaire
Socialit
Yvon Delbos
Robert Lacoste
Renault auto
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Renault
Madagascar
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Reuters
France
De Gaullist
Left Hand Corner review of Gerald Campbell book
The British High Commissioner to Canada Sir Gerald Campbell writes of shared memories and global affairs in a review discussion. The Ottawa Journal summary recalls his affectionate nods to Lord Tweedmuir and notes his broad range from African tribes to imperialism and world affairs with his casual yet sound storytelling voice.
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Ottawa Journal
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Lord Twerdsmuir
Campbell
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Tom Brown
Tuerdsmuir
Gerald
mada shritty
Ottawa
Scotland Yard
Gerald ciensses
Africa
Shiv
GERALD CAMPBELL
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Flood Waters Threaten Rescue at Malartic Mine
Flood from a burst dam inundates Malartic Gold Mine property as 11 miners remain trapped since April 4. Workers use a steam ditching shovel and dynamite to divert water and clear the creek that carries the lake overflow. Engineer Edward Futterer says the situation is under control though water quantity entering the shafts remains unknown.
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Edward Futterer
Ottawa House Progress Amid War Control Debate
Ottawa observers discuss possible mid June prorogation of Parliament though July is thought more likely given remaining business. The wartime controls bill passed quickly and awaits budget debate resumption, which could shape how long Parliament sits and influence subjects raised during budget discussions.
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OTTAWA
Parliament Hill
commons
senate
Slayings Trigger West Virginia Manhunt in wartime Jealousy Case
A posse of 40 sheriff's deputies and state police hunted Oliver Hurley, 40, in rugged terrain near Fort Gay West Virginia as authorities named him the slayer of four relatives. The victims include his three year old son Jay, his estranged wife Susie Billups Hurley, brother William and sister in law Nora Skeens, with two other children wounded. The killings, blamed on a jealous rage over the estrangement, prompted a statewide manhunt and searches for Hurley.
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Oliver Hurley
Hurley
Jay Hurley
Susie Billups Hurley
Willam Hurley
Nora Belle Skeens
Trio Recovers After Bushland Crash Near Coffey Lake
EDMONTON May 5 Three members of a four seater Moth plane including pilot George Fletcher of Brandon and passengers Joseph Driscoll and 15 year old Jim McAvoy Yellowknife were rescued after a seven day ordeal marooned in northern bushland. They were flown to Edmonton after minor injuries from a crash landing near Coffey Lake during a flight from Edmonton to Yellowknife. Rescue was delayed by ice and slush on Embarras runway. local trapper Carl Pearson aided by canoe brought them to safety before the final airlift.
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Coffey Lake
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George Fletcher
Brandon
Joseph Driscoll
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bud
Yellowknife
N.W.T
Associated Airways
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Driscoll
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Scatchismen
Embasras
Carl Pearson
Cafiy Lake
Pearson
Fox
Fort McMurray
eof Brenden
Alberta
WAYNE
W. Va
Fiert Marriven
Oliver Matity
Fort Gay
wan
United States stands firm on Jews’ hearing at UN
In New York on May 5, the United States resisted Russian demands for a full Jewish hearing on the Palestine debate at the United Nations. Washington proposed a small neutral-state inquiry commission limited to witnesses, while opposing full participation by the official Jewish agency in plenary sessions. The Soviet bloc supported some hearing but differed on format, and Polish representatives urged including the Big Five in a commission.
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Palestine
general committee
United Nations General Assembly
Flushing Meadow
N.Y
Soviet Union
Faisal Al Saud
Saudi Arabia
Alexander Cadogan
United Nations
Holy Land
NEW YORK
United States
United Nations Assembly
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Jewish agency for Palestine
Russia
United
Palestine inquiry commission
Canada
Britain
China
France
Iran
Condemned Slayer Escapes French Jail
Paris reports an escaped condemned murderer from Mount Albanor who fled Saturday night after injuring a guard. Authorities identify the escapee as Standlaus Warelewski, 22, who allegedly left shackled feet and stole a car. He is said to have confessed to 19 murders after being sentenced to die for three other crimes.
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PARIS
Toulouse
Mount+ albanor
Standlaus Warelewski
Wazelewski
Prisoners at Large After Acre Prison Break in Palestine
British troops and police hunted 227 Jewish prisoners who escaped from Acre prison after a mass breakout by the Jewish underground. Sixteen people were killed in the raid, including 11 underground members, with 251 finally breaking free from a prison holding 555. Troops cordoned dozens of Jewish settlements near Acre as a wide manhunt began, with several wounded and captured in ensuing exchanges.
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JERUSALEM
Palestine
Acre
Jewish underground
Haifa
6th Airborne Division
Ladies Day Escape From Acre Prison Recounted
Report details 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners escaping Acre prison in a Jewish underground coup. Some fled through a Turkish bath while 39 women used Ladies' Day to slip away, according to disclosures from Jerusalem on May 5.
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JERUSALEM
Acre
Greatest Manhunt Reaches Palestine Amid Prison Break
Army reports 251 prisoners involved in a breakout at Acre prison. Of them 191 were Arabs and 60 Jews, with many serving life terms. A Jewish group, Irgun Zvai Leumi, claimed credit for breaching walls by ladders, explosives, and gates, freeing inmates amid armed assaults in the historic zone.
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Sen
Galilee
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Oshawa Workers Return to Jobs at GM Plant
Oshawa Ontario May 5 7000 workers at General Motors west plant returned to work at 7 am ending a tieup that began after 250 body room workers quit in protest over a speed up plan. Settlement followed an agreement to revert to the old system of 23 units an hour and increase to 24 units an hour later.
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OSHAWA
Ont
General Motors west
May Day Sunday Observed Across Britain With Rally at London Coliseum
London crowds hear Prime Minister Attlee and Labor leaders urge patience and hard work amid winter hardships. Attlee notes social and economic reforms while officials discuss postwar industry rebounds, with mixed gains in auto aircraft and steel sectors and sharp declines in clothing.
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LONDON
London Coliseum
Attlee
Hartley Shaweroca
Martin Insull Dies At 77 In Ontario Hospital
ORILLIA Ont May 5 Former head of the vast Insull electricity empire that collapsed in 1932 died quietly in Soldiers Memorial hospital He was 77 and had lived in obscurity since his 1935 clearance in the Middle West Utilities case He and his brother Samuel built a Chicago based utility empire and fled abroad after the crash with Samuel later captured in Smyrna
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Ont
United States
Martin John Insull
Samuel
Martin Insull
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Eng
Middle West Utilities Company
Chicago
Soldiers’ Memorial hospital
Toronto
Martin
Canada
Europe
Insult
U.S
Smyrne
Sam Insull
Cook county
Kentville Declares May 26 Civic Victoria Day
May 5 report from Kentville Nova Scotia notes the town will observe Victoria Day on Monday May 26 following Halifax lead, moving the usual celebration from May 24. This marks a civic holiday in the Annapolis Valley town.
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KENTVILLE
N.S
Annapolis Valley
Halifax
Fear Grows Plane Fell Into Sea Near Nanaimo
Vancouver report notes exhaustive coastal waters search for a missing Trans-Canada airliner with 35 aboard after sightings of a low flying plane over Georgia Strait. Gabriola Island residents reported a radio message saying water all around, fueling hopes of a crash in the sea and renewed aerial scouting around Gabriola Island.
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C.P
British Columbia
Trans
Nanaimo
Vatrsuver Island
Gabriola Island
NEW HOPE
Gabriela
16 PICNICKERS KILLED IN AUSTRALIAN TRAIN WRECK
In Sydney Australia on May 5 a derailment of two special excursion trains near Camp Mountain killed at least 16 picnickers and injured about 69. Rescuers recovered 16 bodies from the wreckage as an engine and cars plunged off the rails on a bend.
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SYDNEY
Austtralia
Camp Mountain
Marshall criticized by Izvestia for Moscow talks
Izvestia accuses State Secretary Marshall of an incorrect appraisal of the Moscow foreign ministers conference. It says his radio address to the American people does not conform to the facts and distorts Soviet proposals and delegation.
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MOSCOW
Izvestia today
Marshall
Izvestia
UN political committee to hear Jewish case in Palestine debate
UN Assembly rejected granting the Jewish Agency full voice but approved hearing the Zionist organization before the 35 member political committee. The decision came by a 44 to 7 vote with several absentees as delegates backed a Latin American and Slav nations sponsored resolution to have the Agency present its case before the committee.
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United Nations Assembly
Tate
Palestine
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