Cross Swords On Vote Delay In Greece Debate
London November 23 Churchill and Bevin clashed in parliament over Labor's plan to delay the Greek plebiscite on monarchy for up to three years. Bevin urged a March 1948 vote while Churchill branded a delay as wrong and detrimental to Greece. Bevin urged clear international aims to ease peace fears and outlined UN as key to security and Britain's independent decision making. He also noted Polish independence and Java postwar withdrawals. Eden and Churchill had previously promised King George a plebiscite soon, prompting a Greek protest. Continues on Page Three.
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LONDON
C.P
Winston Churchill
Bevin
Greece
Mr. Bevin
United Nations Organization
Britain
Java
Middle East
Anthony Eden
Churchill
George
Alberta Delegation Heads to Ottawa Conference
Edmonton Nov 23 Premier E C Manning leads Alberta's delegation to the Dominion provincial conference at Ottawa and they will depart by train tonight.
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EDMONTON
E. C. Manning
Alberta
Dominion
Ottawa
Churchill to pen personal war narrative for world record
London diary notes Churchill plans a personal war memoir drawing on confidential documents and despatches. The work, a sequel to World Crisis, would cover this war with inside Britain’s viewpoint, including talks with Stalin, while he leads the Opposition in Parliament pending completion.
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Churchill
London
Ottawa Journal
Great Britain
Winston
Marshal Stalin
Dave Boone
New York Sun
Japan
Tokyo
Meat rationing to continue in Canada despite US end
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King told Parliament that meat rationing will continue in Canada though US termination prompts a review. He said Canada cannot sustain current overseas shipments and fair prices without rationing, needing adjustments to its program.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Mackenzie King
the
commons
Canada
United States
Hitler Orders Kill Without Mercy in Poland Invasion
At Nuremberg the American prosecutor unveiled 10 documents never seen before, including a Aug 22 1939 Obersalzberg speech in which Hitler told generals to exterminate Poles and deploy troops in Polish uniforms. Goering were quoted dancing on a table. The case centers on planned aggressive war and Nazi leadership.
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Nuernberg
Hermann Goering
Luftwaffe
Rudolph Hess
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Poland
DANIEL DE LUCE NUGRNBERG
Obersalzberg
fuehrer
upper Silesia
protectorate
Thieves steal ration points as meat and fats rationing ends
In Newark New Jersey on the night of November 23 a pair of burglaries stole 125000 ration points. The theft is seen as a grave disappointment because all coupons become valueless tonight with the end of meat and fats rationing in the United States.
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NEWARK
N.J
United States
Trade talks with Britain in earnest review, MacKinnon says
Ottawa reports Canada and the United Kingdom are in very earnest consideration of future trade relations as negotiations proceed. Trade Minister MacKinnon promised a statement upon completion. Also in Ottawa, labour policy eases permits to hire temporary Santa helpers for Christmas and New Year in retail and post offices. Second reading advances a Transport Act amendment to bring Mackenzie River shipping under the Board of Transport Commissioners. A royal-cooperatives report is slated for Monday tabling, with distribution midweek. A Vancouver Stock Exchange protest over extradition treaty protocol was also tabled.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Canada
United Kingdom
MacKinnon
SANTA CLAUS
labor department
Arthur MacNamara
senate
commons
W. A. Buchanan
Alberta
Mackenzie River
board of transport commissioners
W. M. Aseltine
P.C
Saskatchewan
Buchanan
A. D. McRae
Vancouver Stock Exchange
commons external affairs commie
20th Speeds Home By Bill Skelton
Soldiers of the 20th Anti Tank Battery and the 17th Light Anti Aircraft Battery return to Winnipeg aboard a special army train. The early morning arrival in snow and chill prompts reflections on home and civilian life after years overseas.
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BILL SKELTON
Herald
SPECIAL ARMY
Brandon
Man
Lethbridge
Macleod
Winnipeg
TIRAIN
Military District No. 10
Lethbridge and Macleod boys
Accept Union Offer To Open Powerhouse
Ford Motor Company of Canada and the United Automobile Workers CIO agreed to reopen the powerhouse at the strikebound plant. Crews report for work immediately as the plant’s heat, power, and water supply resume operation. Union leaders say reopening does not end the broader 22-point dispute and call for good faith negotiations to continue.
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Jack Williams
C.P
Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd
United Automobile Workers of America
C.I.O
BC Members Oppose Japs in Canada Debate Deepens
In Ottawa the House approved a 1.3656 billion war and demobilization appropriation, paving way for a bill to fund war costs with 400 million set aside for interim use. BC members pressed to repatriate or exclude Japanese Canadians as defense worries over Pacific coast strengthened after Pearl Harbor era disclosures.
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OTTAWA
commons
Labor department
Canada
Blinister Mackenzie
house
British Columbia
Japan
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Howard Green
Vancouver South
Thos. Reid
New Westminster
Hull Reveals U S Played For Time Before Pearl Harbor
Cordell Hull says the United States and President Roosevelt sought to delay confrontation with Japan before the December 7, 1941 attack, warning that only by yielding on fundamental principles might war have been avoided. He describes warnings given, aims to avoid a showdown, and parallel actions with Churchill at Atlantic Conference.
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MARLIN SPENCER
TOKYO
United States army
Sendai
Hokkaido
Honshu
KOISO
Kuniaki Koiso
Pearl Harbor
Hideki Tojo
Sugamo prison
Gen. MacArthur
Japan
China
Sadao Araki
Yoshihisa Kuzuu
Black Dragon Society
Sugamo
Shigeru Honjo
Mukden
Manchuria
Hull
U.S
WASHINGTON
Cordell Hull
United States
Roosevelt
senate-house
Pacific
Mr. Roosevelt
Kra
Dutch East Indies
Winston Churchill
British agriculture chief warns land seizure if farmers fail to cooperate
Agriculture Minister Tom Williams told British farmers in a radio address that non cooperation with the Labor government plan might lead to confiscation of their land. He said the policy aims to ensure land is properly farmed managed and equipped and warned that land could be taken at valuation as a last resort from those who do not participate.
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LONDON
C.P
Tom Williams
Country-Wide Strike Threat Clouds U S Labor Picture
New York November 23 The strike of 200000 General Motors workers in about 80 plants across 20 states raises fears of a national walkout by telephone workers. NFTOI president Beirne warns a country wide strike is not remote as Bell Telephone operators strike nears five days. Detroit auto workers seek arbitration over a 30 percent wage hike while Labor Secretary aide Gibson hopes for early settlement and predicts walkouts may end by January 15.
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NEW YORK
General Motors Corporation
United States
Joseph 4. Beirne
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Ind
Bierne
Chicago
Bell Telephone company
N.F.TOW
Detroit
C.S. auto workers union
John W. Gibson
Schwellenbach
All Meat Rationing Ends In U S Saturday
Washington reports the United States ends meat rationing tomorrow and frees all food fats including butter margarine lard and shortening. Canned fish meat and fats are removed from rationing. Sugar remains the sole rationed item. The program began March 29 1943.
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WASHINGTON
A.P
United States
Agriculture
Anderson
Murder charges in bank robbery in South Porcupine
News wires report Marcel Deserrets of Schumacher charged with murder and armed robbery after the Bank of Toronto branch robbery in South Porcupine. A car license check tied the getaway to Deserrets. Police pursue remaining suspect.
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SOUTH PORCUPINE
Ont
C.P
Marcel Deserrets
Schumacher
John Dubinsky
Bank of Toronto
Deserres
SOERAB AJA BATAVIA
Java
AJ.P
Soerabaja
NEW YORK
British Information Services
NEW WESTMINSTER
b.v
A. J. Bowell
triak
Bowell
McBRIDE
PRINCE GEORGE
B.C
Donald Watson Beach
Rose Soucy
CALCUTTA
LONDON
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Omori
Okinawa
Kwantung army
Korea
Wilhelm Keitel
high command
Karl Doenitz
Erich Raeder
Baldur von Schirach
Hitler Jugend
Fritz Saukle
man Goering
Chamberlain
England
international military tribunal
Sidney S. Alderman
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COTM
St. Laurent
Canadian Pacific Railway company
Hudson’s Bay company
Dominion Mortgage and Loan Corporation
Sign Union and Company
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