Budapest Falls to Red Army After 49-Day Siege
London reports Budapest surrendered after 49 days of brutal street fighting costing the Germans 49 000 killed and 120 000 captured. Stalin cited Marshals Rodion Malinovsky and Feodor Tolbukhin for the success, noting the loss of 269 tanks and 1 257 cannon with food stores seized.
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London
Budapest
Red Army
Stalingrad
Stalin
Rodicn Y. Malinovsky
Feodor Tolbukhin
Ukraine
Vienna
Monor
Danube
Jan. 2
Hudson Bay Route Urged To Grow Western Canada
Manitoba legislature heard PB Richards of The Pas urge support for the Hudson Bay shipping route to Europe as a driver of western development. He predicted Manitoba could reach 600,000 people in a decade with northern development and called for prairie administration of the Hudson Bay railway, transferring control only. He cited On-to-the-Bay Association’s Saskatoon resolution and warned postwar immigration policy would strain port facilities.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
PB. R. Richards
CCF
Pas
Hudson Bay
Europe
Canada
Big Three aim to end war with new peace league plan
Washington reports Amen armies drive toward Germany with massed forces and supplies under a Three power plan to speed victory and secure postwar peace. Dumbarton Oaks league proposal to be outlined at a United Nations conference in San Francisco on April 25. Moscow radio airs full Big Three communique text ending with the Soviet anthem and The Star Spangled Banner.
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Washington
Germany
Dumbarton Oaks
San Francisco
Moscow
Saved radium heroine Madame Cotelle dies in Ottawa
Mme Jean Cotelle former associate of Madame Curie died after handling large quantities of radioactive material. Her 1940 rescue of France radium with Professor Debierne helped seal it for safe hiding as German forces advanced. She aided Curie’s radium research from 1919 until her health failed recently.
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Madame Cure
Ottawa
Frances
Mme
Jean Cotelle
Madame Curie
Madame Cotelle
France
Professor Debierne
Cotelle
Japs Move Aircraft Plants From Home Islands
Aerial reconnaissance shows major Japanese aircraft plants in the home islands being partially dismantled. Brig-Gen. Louis Norstad notes that while it was known heavy industries were shifted to Manchuria, this marks the first indication that home island plants are being moved.
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Washington
Louis Norstad
20Th Air Force
Aid
Manchuria
Parachute Chief Montgomery Named Colonel Commandant
A wartime photograph shows Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery wearing a red beret with the Parachute regiment badge and the 6th Airborne division scarf. He has been appointed colonel commandant of the Parachute regiment following the Normandy drop night.
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Ir Bernard L. Montgomery
Parachute Regiment
6Th Airborne Division
Normandy
Sweden orders surrender of all arms to prevent revolt
Swedish correspondents report a government decree requires the surrender of all weapons to authorities. The move cites wartime needs and fears of domestic unrest. In related notes, Canadian forces formed five UN troops in the Dieppe raid on August 19, 1942.
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Stockholm
United Nations
Dieppe
Nazi Leaders Plan To Resist To Last Ditch In Ottawa
Royal Canadian Mounted Police announce retirement of Assistant Commissioner P. R. Forde and Inspector Edward Carroll now on leave pending retirement. Forde served in Yukon prairies and east Canada, held Paymaster roles in Winnipeg Regina, and moved to Vancouver before Regina. Carroll served in Halifax, stationed in Ottawa since 1981 mainly in A Division. London dispatch notes Nazi leaders call for continued resistance despite Crimean conference results, denouncing Bolshevik terror and Jewish revenge while portraying Stalin as a monster and framing the Soviet Union as the chief threat to Europe.
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Ottawaa
Royal Canamian Mounted Police
P. R. Forde
Edward Carroll
Ottawa
Forde
Yukon
Prairies
Eastern
Canada
Winnipeg
Regina
Vancouver
Carroll
Halifax
London
Yalta
Europe
Goebels
DNB
Natons
Soviet Union
Marshal Stalin
Germany
Canada Joins Big Three War Prisoner Repatriation Accord
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced Canadian prisoners of war and internees are covered by the Britain Russia United States repatriation agreement. He said UK delegates acted for Canada and dominions at the conferences and that care arrangements will be worked out in Moscow with Canadian officers, the British embassy, and allied missions.
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Ottawa
Makenzie King
Britain
Russia
United States
Germany
King
United Kingdom
Canada
Moscow
Emassy
Dominions
Fortitude Displayed by British and Russians Urged
German radio praised British resilience during the Battle of Britain and Soviet endurance at Stalingrad as examples for Germans to imitate in their current plight. Dr Rudolf Semmler said in 1940 England had few planes and 1000 machine guns, and in 1942 the Soviet Union seemed doomed, yet toughness prevailed.
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London
Britain
Stalingrad
England
Rudolf Semmler
Soviet Union
Semmler
France seeks Canadian horses to rebuild farm stock
France has lost about half a million farm horses in the war and sends government representatives to Ottawa and possibly western Canada to discuss prospects and purchases. The move echoes WWI supply links as France plans for army remounts, while Germans previously used French horses in their forces, including during the Battle of Falaise.
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Paris
France
Canada
Ottawa
Falaise
Date of Mystery Why Does United Nations Meeting Start on April 25
In London, nerves tense over the April 25 meeting date for the United Nations in San Francisco. The Daily Express suspects it signals a Japan war note, while the Daily Mail ponders if Germany’s fate may be sealed by that time. A postman hiding German escapees in a barn returned with two armed friends and the Nazis surrendered.
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United Nations
London
San Francisco
Russia
Japan
Daily Express
Germany
The
Daily Mail
Shefriany
Nog
France to Join German Occupation as Berlin Control Member
France agreed to participate in Germany occupation as a member of the Berlin control commission, as proposed at Yalta. Pierre Henri Tietgen, French information minister, announced the decision.
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France
Paris
Germany
Berlin
Yalta
Pierre Henri Tietgen
Air Force awards Distinguished Flying Cross to ten RCAF members
Air force headquarters announced the Distinguished Flying Cross awards to ten Royal Canadian Air Force members serving overseas. Among the recipients is Flight Lieutenant L. V. Kirsch of Yorkton Saskatchewan.
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Ottawa
Air Force Neaoquarters
RCAF
Fit
L. V. Kirsch
Yorkton
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