Regulations To Speed Up Army Demobilization
Ottawa announces new regulations to expedite Canadian army demobilization. The changes extend immediate discharge eligibility to more personnel including compassionate leave cases, age or profile limits, wounded soldiers, repatriated POWs, First World War veterans, and those nearing 42 or under 19 on VJ Day. Local and central boards will handle recommendations, with overseas cases cleared by Ottawa.
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Defence
McNaughton
V J
Army
Vernon
C W.A.C
Navy
Air Force
Merchant Marine
Central Board
National Defence Headquarters
Cripps rules out cotton nationalization in new Labour era
Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the British Board of Trade, said the new Labour government will not nationalize the cotton industry. He urged immediate improvements in working conditions and organization to secure government support. In Paris, Harold Laski reportedly linked Labour’s success to socialism worldwide.
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Manchester
British Board of Trade
Stafford Cripps
Cripps
England
Paris
British Labor Party
Harold Laski
Britain Elevates Top War Leaders to Peerage
London reports King George VI honors three senior officers and bestows honors on Hastings Ismay. the event follows Churchill Attlee joint recommendation. The list includes Alan Brooke Andrew Cunningham Charles Portal and Ismay with others named for dissolution honors. With by elections possible in Conservative seats Brendan Bracken and Duncan Sandys may contest seats.
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London
Britain
Churchill
Alan Brooke
Imperial General Staff
Andrew Cunningham
RAF
Charles Portal
Hastings Ismay
Defence
Winston Churchill
Attlee
House of Commons
the Admiralty
Brendan Bracken
Works
Duncan Sandys
Gas Rationing in Canada Abolished and Transit Rules Relaxed
Ottawa reports abolishing gasoline rationing and all transit controls on taxis buses and drive yourself cars while tire rationing continues until stock levels improve. The move follows a Washington note as Canada widens tire eligibility and maintains rationing on canned fruits sugar and related items until civilian supply stabilizes.
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Ottawa
Munitions Department
Canada
Washington
Prices Board
United States
Pearl Harbor
Germany
Chester Bowles
Postwar Problems Test Allied Unity and Plans
The end of World War II leaves the Allies confronting three broad postwar tasks: Japan’s occupation and language hurdles, a fragile Chinese peace amid potential civil strife, and the reconstruction of liberated British, French, and Dutch territories. Without joint policy and inclusive settlement, Far East peace risks instability.
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London
Europe
Japan
China
Allied Control Commission
Chungking
Britain
Russia
United States
Chiang Kai-Shek
Far East
Far
France
Netherlands
Germany
Air Service Between England and South Africa Announced
South African Airways says a new Tudor air service between England and Capetown will start next year on a 50 hour basis. Fares are planned from 600 to 800 dollars with future reductions via night flying.
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Capetown
South Africa
England
South African Airways
Nazi Will Bequeaths Wealth to Wife in Berlin Estate
The Berlin Zeitung prints what it calls the last will and testament of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg the former Nazi governor of occupied Russia and Nazi movement ideologue. Rosenberg now awaits war crimes trial after being seized by a British patrol in a Flemish hospital last May. The will leaves his wife a Berlin residence an Austrian agricultural estate and accounts in three banks.
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Berlin
Berlin Zeitung
Alfred Rosenberg
Russia
Rosenberg
Flemsburg
Austria
Uranium Sources Found in New Zealand
New Zealand minister for supply and munitions Daniel G. Sullivan announced two possible uranium sources in Wellington. The radioactive metal used in atomic bomb production could be located in local deposits and regional areas under review.
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New Zealand
Wellington
N.Z
Daniel G. Sullivan
Georges B dault to join Big Five Foreign Ministers Council
Former French professor turned underground leader and Gen. De Gaulle ally, Georges B dault, will sit on the Big Three formed council of five foreign ministers at Potsdam. The group will draft Europe's peace treaties following liberation.
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BIG Five
Georges B Dault
Gen. de Gaulle
Council of Five Foreign Ministers
Big Three
Potsdam
Fauirope
Men for Harvesting Montreal
National selective Service officials said they were instructed to recruit 3000 men with farming aptitudes in Quebec. About half will be sent to Maine to aid potato harvests and the rest to western Canada for wheat harvests. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Montreal
National Selective Service
Quebec
Maine
Western
Canada
Ninth Victory Loan to Open Campaign in October
A national war finance official says Japan's surrender won’t end Canada's Victory Loans. The Ninth Victory Loan will be held in the latter part of October with Isley to announce the loan amount and opening date at month’s end.
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Ottawa
Japan
Canada
National War Finance Committee
Isley
Australia’s war debt soars to seven billion yet to July
Melbourne radio reports Australia’s war cost up to July 31 at seven billion four hundred million dollars with all but 450 million paid in loans or internal revenue. National debt has more than doubled from about three billion three hundred million at the war’s start. Prague's Benes signs decree nationalizing the Czechoslovak movie industry making production distribution and theatre ownership state controlled.
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San Francisco
Melbourne Radio
Australia
Prague
Benes
Czechosloovak Movie
Emperor Hirohito Accepts Cabinet Resignation in Surrender
The report details Emperor Hirohito requesting Premier Suzuki and his cabinet resign before Japan's unconditional surrender to Allied forces. Domei and FCC summaries note Hirohito's appeal to remain briefly and attribute surrender to the atomic bomb and Soviet entry. Japanese leaders express grief and vow to endure the crisis as Tokyo broadcasts reflect bitter reaction.
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Hirohito
Japan
Comei
Federal Communications Commission
Kantaro Suzuki
Domei
Suzuki
Hirshito
Gen
Koreichika Anami
Baron Kantaro Suzuki
Tokyo
Kusuo Oya
Overseas Bureau
Japan Broadcasting Corporation
Oya
F.C.C
Anami
Asia
Russia
Vancouver grants tax free property for blind institute home
City hall approved a tax free property grant for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. A new home valued at $100,000 will be built in Vancouver to accommodate 60 residents after donations totaling $135,000 from 100 local citizens were raised. Captain M C Robinson, national director for the institute, disclosed the figures.
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Vancouver
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
M. C. Robinson
Institute
Appointment of Mayors for Japanese-Occupied Cities
The Chinese government named mayors for Shanghai Peiping Tientsin and Nanking after Japan's surrender, with reliable quarters reporting the new arrangements.
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Chungking
Shanghai
Peiping
Tientsin
Nanking
Sugar usage by Americans tied to population share
A historical note states one third of global sugar production is consumed by Americans who make up one fifteenth of the world population. The figure underscores per capita consumption and global supply dynamics in the era.
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