Saskatchewan Seeks Taxation Rights Over Ottawa Debts
Saskatchewan finance head M Fines and deputy T Lax met with Ottawa officials to discuss provincial liability for provincial treasury bills held by Ottawa and the right of set off. Premier T C Douglas demanded assurances Ottawa would not claim relief obligations before any agreement, noting Saskatchewan would lose $39,000,000 under federal budget proposals and forego social security options.
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Saskatchewan
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Thomas Lax
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Lance
Pines
Manitoba
Alberta
TC Douglas
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Fines
Britain Faces Winter Coal Shortage Amid Wartime Legacy
Britain confronts a looming winter coal shortage as postwar demand climbs. Workforce losses during wartime, output declines, and slow mechanization threaten supply. Nationalization may help, but time and investment are needed to raise capacity. Meanwhile domestic use rises with more electrical appliances. Canada and the Americas await Bristol 170 airliner tour.
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Britain
London
United States
Madame Sun Yat Sen warns of civil war tactics in China
Madame Sun Yat Sen, widow of Sun Yat Sen and sister to Chiang Kai-shek, accuses Kuomintang factionaries of seeking civil war to trigger U S USSR conflict. She urges a coalition government in China and appeals to the United States to cut military aid, saying American troops on Chinese soil harm peace and fuel reactionary plots.
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Shanghai
Sun Yat- Sen
Chinese Republic
Chiang
United States
Russia
Kuomintang
Government Party
China
Madame Sun
America
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Disfer
Queen Mary May Be Withdrawn From Transport Service
Southampton dispatch notes Queen Mary likely pulled from service as a dependents transport to Canada. About 29,000 dependents remain in the U K with 15,070 wives and 4,830 children awaiting movement. A shuttle service will use Lady Rodney to Tilbury. Elks Point No. 1 drill results also reported salt beds 750 feet thick.
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England
Canada
United Kingdom
Lady Rodney
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Tilbury
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Central Plains
Elk Point No
Calgary
Bows Hill Takes New Job In Civil Aviation Role
Sir Frederick Bows Hill, who supervised wartime ferry operations from Montreal airport, resigns as United Kingdom representative on the provisional international civil aviation council to join the British ministry of civil aviation. Poland exported 100000 tons of cement to the Soviet Union in six months.
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Montreal
Frederick Bowshill
United Kingdom
Council of the
Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization
Ministry of Civil Aviation
Poland
Soviet Union
Empire Defence Measures Move Toward Coordinated Policy
Unobtrusive steps are being taken to assess and improve commonwealth and empire defence structures. Viscount Montgomery will visit Canada as part of a broader plan to strengthen military missions, expand free defence consultations with the Dominions, and keep Dominions informed on rocket and weapon experiments in Australia. Talks of joint defence with the United States and Canada continue, with emphasis on standardizing weapons and gun bores, while Commonwealth independence and UN future duties are noted.
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London
Viscount Montsomery
Canada
Lord Montgomery
Lord Alanbrooke
Staf
Dominions
United Kingdom
Britain
Australia
United States
United Nations
Tito life attack rumor denied by Yugoslav embassy
A London Yugoslav embassy spokesman denied a Rome Zagreb report that Marshal Tito was wounded by a pistol shot during July 11 12. No confirmation appeared in Rome or Belgrade radios. The story originated from Zagreb via a new Italian agency Minos.
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London
Rome
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Zagreb
Minos
Denial From China Blames UNRRA Relief Delays
The Chinese government demanded UNRRA resume suspended relief shipments to China and blamed UNRRA for distribution delays. UNRRA director Fiorello LaGuardia had suspended shipments two weeks earlier, citing jammed warehouses in Chinese ports caused by the Chinese government’s distribution failures.
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Washington
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
China
UNRRA
Fiorello LaGuardia
Veto in Security Council Urged to Stand
Russia maintains a firm, final conviction that the UN Security Council veto should remain unchanged. Soviet sources say unanimity among big powers is crucial and the UN Charter must not be undermined. Dr. Evatt has asked the UN secretary-general to place the veto on the General Assembly agenda starting Sept. 23.
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New York
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Herbert V. Evatt
Evatt
UN General Assembly
Meat Shipments From Canada Reach 59 Million Pounds
Figures from the Canadian meat board show weekly canned meat shipments to UNRRA hunger zones totaling 2,460,284 pounds for the week ending July 13. Of this, 1,979,516 pounds went to Austria and 490,068 pounds to Italy. Since January 1, 1946, 59,154,799 pounds have been purchased and shipped overseas. The bulk supported famine relief under UNRRA supervision with significant aid also noted for Belgium and the Netherlands. A separate note mentions a $5,006,000 donation by Canadians to Chinese relief and a US credit of $10,000,000 to buy surplus property, repayable over seven installments at 2.47 percent interest.
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Canadian Meat Board
UNRRA
Austria
Italy
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