Big Three May Hold General Peace Conference
Washington reports indicate the Big Three plan a general peace conference after Japan’s defeat to map a new world order. Officials expect a separate treaty, possibly with a new security organization, distinct from Versailles and tied to the Dumbarton Oaks framework.
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Nazi Leaders Rally to Resist to Last Breath in Europe
London reports Nazi propaganda officials urging Germans to resist to the end. They attack the Crimean conference results, claim Bolshevik terror and Jewish revenge, and portray Stalin as a monster seeking German dismemberment and Soviet domination of Europe.
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Yalta
Europe
Goebbels
DNB
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Soviet Union
Stalin
Germany
Allied forces move toward Germany as peace plan outlined
Allied armies push toward the German center under a three power plan to end the war swiftly. The Dumbarton Oaks framework for a new world league will be presented at a United Nations conference in San Francisco, opening April 25.
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Dumbarton Oaks
Yalta
Shigemitsu
DeWitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Postman Helper Recovered Six German POWs Hidden in Barn
In Sheffield England a postman entering a village barn saw six escaped German prisoners of war hiding in hay. He returned with two friends carrying guns and the Nazis surrendered immediately.
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German Radio Urges Germans to Emulate Enemies Fortitude
Dr Rudolf Semmler, a radio political commentator, urged Germans to copy Allied endurance from the Battle of Britain and the Soviet defense of Stalingrad. He claimed in 1940 Britain had few planes and guns and that in 1942 the Soviet Union seemed doomed, calling for toughness in Germany now.
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England
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Saved Radium Heroine of France Dies in Canada
Mme Jean Cotelle former associate of Madame Curie died from radioactive exposure after saving France’s radium from Germans in 1940. She helped seal radium for safe hiding with Professor Debierne and worked 25 years on radium related experiments. Canadian forces led five sixths of UN troops at Dieppe raid on August 19, 1942.
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France to Join Berlin Control Commission in German Occupation
French Information Minister Pierre Henri Tietgen announced that France will participate in the occupation of Germany and serve as a member of the Berlin Control Commission as proposed at Yalta.
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Germany
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Yalta
Pierre Henri Tietgen
Budapest Falls to Red Army After 49 Day Siege
London reports Budapest capitulated to Soviet forces after 49 days of street fighting. 49,000 German troops were killed and 110,600 captured, with 269 tanks, 1,257 cannons and large stores of food seized. Marshal Tolbukhin and Marshal Malinovsky led the operation, marking 17th European capital lost by Germany to the Allies.
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Sweden Orders Civilians to Surrender Weapons
German and Swedish authorities issue a decree demanding all weapons be surrendered. The move signals concern over home front unrest while guns are needed for the fronts, according to Swedish correspondents.
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Parachute Chief Montomery Joins Parachute Regiment
A new photo shows Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery in a red beret with the Parachute Regiment badge and a parachute jumping jacket. He was recently appointed colonel commandant of the Parachute Regiment as the 6th Airborne division's June Normandy drop is recalled.
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Manitoba MP touts Hudson Bay route for western development
B R Richards of The Pas told the Manitoba legislature the Hudson Bay shipping route to Europe could lay the basis for western Canada development. He urged support for a prairie administration of the Hudson Bay railway, noting no ownership change, and warned a postwar immigration policy would tax ports to handle traffic.
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Date of mystery London sets next UN meet in San Francisco
London papers speculate on the April 25 date for the next United Nations meeting in San Francisco. The Daily Express calls it the latest Russia neutrality notice against Japan. The Daily Mail wonders if leaders foresee Germany’s war ending by April 25.
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Japanese Aircraft Plants Shrinking on Home Islands
Aerial reconnaissance in recent days indicates that major Japanese aircraft plants on the home islands are being at least partially dismantled. Brigadier General Louis Norstad, chief of staff of the 20th Air Force, said the evidence shows home island plants being moved, following prior knowledge of heavy industry transfers to Manchuria.
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Moscow Radio Airs Big Three Communique In Anthem End
Moscow radio broadcast the full text of the Big Three communique without comment. The program ended with the Soviet national anthem and the Star Spangled Banner.
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Soviet Union May Join In War Against Japan
London sources believe the Soviet Union may enter the war against Japan and announce this at the San Francisco conference. Analysts note accelerated European victory, while Tokyo radios push for peace terms and warn of a weary Allied public pressuring a compromise with Japan.
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Retirement of Mounted Police officials in Ottawa
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announces the retirements of Assistant Commissioner P. R. Forde and Inspector Edward Carroll. Both are on leave pending retirement and have long service histories across Yukon, prairie districts, Regina, Vancouver, Halifax, and Ottawa.
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Air Force awards cross to10 RC AF members overseas
Air force headquarters announced the Distinguished Flying Cross award to ten members of the Royal Canadian Air Force serving overseas. Included is Flight Lieutenant L. V. Kirsch of Yorkton Sask.
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