Salter outlines postwar economic high command plan
Sir Arthur Salter backed by the London Times urges a supreme reconstruction body to coordinate relief and recovery across Europe. He calls for strong roles for the United States Britain and the Soviet Union with Canada included, to oversee UNRRA aid and ensure civilian needs guide policy.
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Soviet Policy Shifts Move Germans to the Soviet Union
Diplomatic reports from Washington indicate about 70 000 Germans in Romania and 100 000 in Yugoslavia have been transferred to the Soviet Union to aid postwar rebuilding. Tito reportedly handled the Yugoslav operation, avoiding Western allies. Additional movements from Hungary and Bessarabia are noted, with Russia seeking manpower as it deems fit, a topic discussed at Yalta without agreement.
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Trade Training In Army Should Be Fully Used
Labor Minister Mitchell announced a royal commission to study using armed forces trade training for civilian jobs. Col. Wilfrid Bevey chairs. members include D S Lyons, F S Rutherford, J C G Herwig, F S Smelts, Hector Dupuis. The panel will advise on credits and measures with provinces employers and unions for veterans reentering civilian trades and technical fields.
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Canadians eat less meat after rationing ends says official
F. W. Mantle of Ottawa with the prices board info branch notes Canadians now buy only the meat they need after rationing ended. He adds during rationing days people used up all coupons and stocked up on meat.
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Canada Sweden adopt Two Freedoms air pact
Ottawa reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King announces Canada and Sweden will bring into force immediately the international air services transit agreement between them. The Two Freedoms pact grants each country the right to fly across the other's territory without landing and to land for non traffic purposes.
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Allied leaders expect prolonged Pacific war says Blamey
Melbourne dispatch reports General Sir Thomas Blamey, deputy commander in the southwest Pacific, rejecting any hope for a quick Pacific war end. He says Allied leaders foresee sustained campaigning and heavy fighting for an unpredictable period, based on current knowledge.
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German Food Crisis Amid Allied Advance
Ottawa report quotes Col. Malone former Regina Leader Post colonel now Canadian army public relations officer for northwest Europe. He warns German civilians face starvation as they exhaust reserves from Ukraine Belgium Holland and France and farming is hard to restart due to broken transport. Eight months to a year may pass before orderly food distribution is restored.
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German salt mine hid factory for fuselage production
In Tarthan Germany US forces uncovered a 10 million dollar German factory built 900 feet underground inside an active salt mine. The operation used massive chambers to produce fuselages for 700 jet fighters monthly while a lower section kept the mine active to mask the facility. Ottawa officials said Canadian home construction licenses were issued only on essential need across regions.
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Canadian Generals Decorated by French Government
Ottawa report says Gen H D G Crerar commander in chief of the 1st Canadian Army and four other senior Canadian Army officers received gallantry decorations from the French government.
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Defence Headquarters
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Canada pays oats farmers extra from equalization fund
Trade Minister MacKinnon announced that Ottawa will distribute an additional 8.567 million dollars to Western producers who marketed oats in the crop year ending July 31, 1944. The payment totals 5.849 cents per bushel on 151,596,325 bushels, including 8,241,813 bushels moved farm to farm or to feeders.
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Canada
Mikolajczyk backs Yalta plan for Polish unity government
Former Polish premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, born in a peasant family, formally supports a provisional national unity government aligned with the Yalta declaration. He states he accepts the Crimea decision on Poland’s future to remove doubts about his stance. Mikolajczyk left London after the government’s rejection of his plan to reach accord with the Soviet Union and the Lublin committee.
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Lublin Committee of National Liberation
German government halted prisoner exchanges under Geneva rules
The Foreign Office and War Office announced that Germany has acknowledged its inability to function normally under international conventions. Switzerland, as protecting power, was informed Berlin cannot undertake further exchange of seriously sick and wounded prisoners until two months after necessary arrangements are completed.
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Foreign Office
War Office
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Plan special stamp for Roosevelt bolsters postal history
Post office officials say no steps have been taken yet but a special stamp honoring President Roosevelt, famed as the United States top stamp collector, is likely to be considered.
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Roosevelt
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