Canada’s Role in World Peace Efforts
Canadian plans for the postwar United Nations force center on a 10 000 man air land brigade and possible naval and air units. The military staff committee of the Security Council leads talks to define contingents, readiness, and locations with Canada likely to host initial forces while remaining ready for calls from the council.
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Ross Munroe
Canada
United Nations
London
United Nations Security Council
Britain
United States
Russia
France
China
Council
Dominion
Security Council
Attractive Gold Coast Furniture Aids Bombed Homes
Timber industry members in the Gold Coast present hand crafted furniture from African craftsmen to Britain. A first batch is ready to furnish old People's Homes with later consignments to support families in need. The pieces include tables sideboards bedsteads bookcases and chairs from woods like mahogany obechi sapele udum baku and emer i.
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Britain
Gold Coast
England
Baku
Emeri
Rewarded Librarian Finally Secures Long-Lost Book
F. A. Hardy, Ottawa chief Parliamentary librarian, and staff locate a borrowed book after 27 years. A member once used a semi legal semi fictional volume named Married while preparing a 1919 divorce legislation speech. The library has no fines system.
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F. A. Hardy
Ottawa
Languages spoken by men world wide and English growth
The article notes about 3,500 languages and dialects used today with regional counts in Africa India the Phillipine islands Europe and Jerusalem. It highlights the rapid growth of English from 20 million speakers a century ago to 256 million native speakers and 60 million with business fluency, suggesting it may become universal.
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Africa
India
Phillipine Islands
Europe
Jerusalem
Helium as a Hidden Gas Hard to Isolate
The note describes helium as unseen, untasted, and odorless with a code 2661. It emphasizes its intangible nature and labeling challenge in a concise, fact-centered line suitable for a brief science card.
Large Windmills Reclaiming Power Amid Bread Revival
The St. Thomas Times-Journal notes Britain has about 2,800 windmills, more than Holland, with 1665 Purstow mill as oldest. Big five to six arm mills provide grinding power for wholemeal bread, drainage, wood sawing, and even rural electrification during war. Some mills become homes, lighthouses, libraries, or railway structures.
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Holland
Britain
Purstow
Surrey
Canada
United States
Norfolk
England
St. Thomas Times-Journal
Baroness Orezy the Scarlet Pimpernel Creator Remains Brave
In Henney-on-Thames the aged Baroness Orezy, creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel, endured five years near Gestapo HQ in Monte Carlo. She watched black Mercedes flee with captives, aided some prisoners, survived a Cresy villa bombing, and returned to England to spend her final years in recollection of her adventures.
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Henney-on-Thames
Orezy
Monte Carlo
Gestapo
Pimpernel
Bastille
England
Bennett Cerf
Saturday Review of Literature
Has Two Hearts AIF Soldier In Tarakan Hospitalized
A Queensland AIF soldier on Tarakan in Borneo is admitted with minor leg trouble and a heart affection. An X-ray revealed two hearts beating alternately. A Brisbane heart specialist says he will likely live to an old age and notes his chance of dying with a broken heart is two to one against.
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Queensland
AIF
Tarakan
Borneo
Brisbane
Roosevelt Reflects on British Dinner Amid Rationing
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt recalls a London dinner showing how rationing reshapes hospitality. She notes meals can consume a family’s weekly rations, reflecting daily life for Britons hosting overseas guests.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
London
Britain
Famine Relief Blocked as 300 Villagers Hold Road
About 300 famine scarred villagers near Ahmednagar Bombay province squatted in the roadway for 36 hours blocking a government grain store truckload of wheat. The bags were unloaded and returned to the store.
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Ahmednagar
Bombay
Polar Ice Cap Said To Be Two Miles Thick
Father Joseph J. Lynch of Fordham University laboratory disputes Captain Eddie Rickenbacker’s mining by blasting the Antarctic polar ice cap. Lynch says the world’s uranium supply cannot power such a blast to open the ice cap.
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Antarctic
Father Joseph J. Lynch
Fordham University Scientific Laboratory
Father Lynch
Eddie Rickenbacker
Pandas Sought for London Zoo After Ming’s Death
The Giant Panda, rare and bear raccoon like, once housed Ming at London Zoo until her death in December 1944. Hunters in the China Tibet frontier seek to trap new pandas for Britain. The first suitable specimens would arrive by plane. Juneau is Alaska’s largest city.
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London Zoo
Ming
Britain
China
Tibet
Nature
Waco Store Operator Converts Dimes Into New Site
For more than five years Juan Brabo operated a store in Waco Texas saving dimes. He recently turned 1980.50 in coins into a down payment for a new store site intended as a present for his son Reuben Brabo who is returning from army service.
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Juan Brabo
Waco
Texas
Reuben Brabo
Value Of Sharks In West Indies Fisheries
The Caribbean hosts many sharks whose skins oils fins and meat have economic value. Fishermen are encouraged to catch them as every part is useful from spectacle cases to fertilizer. Britain backs better crops and fisheries while shark resources aid West Indies incomes and food security.
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Caribbean
West Indies
Britain
Welsh Language Still Strong in Wales Amid Bilingual Mix
The article notes about 98,000 Welsh speakers with no English in parts of Wales and a total population around two and a half million. It cites 811,000 bilingual speakers and one and a half million who cannot speak Welsh, urging education to preserve Welsh while ensuring livelihoods nationwide. It also defines non ferrous metals as not derived from iron.
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Wales
Canadian Military Hospital Becomes English War Memorial
The Canadian Military Hospital at Taplow Bucks England transfers to the National Trust as a Canadian war memorial. With 600 beds and full equipment, the facility will serve English civilians and homes a staff of 100 awaiting transfer to Nuffield Provincial Hospital Trust supervision.
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Taplow
Bucks
England
Canada
Lord Astor
National Trust
United Kingdom
Canadian Red Cross Society
Col. C. Rapp
Toronto
Nuffield Provincial Hospital Trust
Col. Rapp
Europe
No. 5
No. T
No. 11
Thames
Cliveden
Lord and Lady Astor
Sixteen Japanese Canadians Join Army Intelligence Corps
Sixteen British Columbia men of Japanese ancestry, evacuated in 1942, have joined the Canadian Army Intelligence Corps. After six weeks of training at Brantford they depart from Camp Ontario Bramshott England en route to Japan to serve as sergeants and interpreters with the British occupation force in the Hiroshima area.
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British Columbia
Pacific Coast
Camp Ontario
Bramshot
Hampshire
Eng
Japan
Canadian Army Intelligence Corps
Canada
West
Brantford
Hiroshima
War Claims Filed Against Germany Across Ten Nations
Ten war ravaged nations filed 600 formal restitution claims with the American Military Government seeking property valued in the billions. Claims include steam shovels, machinery, prayerbooks and race horses as expert teams locate about 40 percent of stolen Nazi assets.
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Germany
AMG
Discovered by Accident Radium Origin Story
The account recalls Henri Becquerel's accidental discovery of radioactivity while studying uranium. He left a sample on a photographic plate covered by black paper and found it light struck the next morning, a finding linked to Madame Curie.
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Henri Becquerel
Madame Curie
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William Burns
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