Premier Bracken on Parley Collapse
Manitoba premier Bracken comments on the Ottawa conference collapse and the Rowell Sirois report. He argues for immediate implementation of the report to base Dominion provincial finances on a sound system, warning that further provincial taxation invasion would burden provinces and weaken war effort. He predicts renewed consideration as war or peace conditions require.
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Ottawa
Sirois
Bracken
Manitoba
Dominion
Canada
Rowell-Sirois
Howe visits Britain as munitions output expansion eyed
Canadian minister of munitions and supply C D Howe winds up a Britain trip with optimism on expanded munitions production and Britain's war effort. He met with Lord Beaverbrook on aircraft engines and admiralty officials on shipbuilding while observing plant operations and timber needs as Baltic resources decline.
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London
Canada
Britain
C. D. Howe
Mr. Howe
British Supply Council
Britain-at
Lord Beaverbrook
Admiralty
Ministry of Supply
C. A. Banks
W. C. Woodward
Howe
Andrew Rae Duncan
United Kingdom
Baltic
Gift to Indian Prince Bombay Diamonds for Aga Khan Gift Plan
The Aga Khan, head of Ismaili Mohammedans in India East Africa and Central Asia, would receive diamonds equal to his weight as a gift if a Karachi driven campaign succeeds. Valued around 25 million dollars the diamonds would be given in 1945 on his diamond jubilee of Moslem spiritual leadership. Followers had given twice his weight in gold on his golden jubilee in 1935.
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Aga Khan
Bombay
India
East Africa
Central Asia
Karachi
Cheese Scarcity Warnings From British Food Ministry
A food ministry official said cheese will be scarce in Britain for the next weeks and may be served only as a main course. The statement urged the public to eat more potatoes and carrots and expressed hope production would stay near peacetime levels at about one third of national consumption.
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London
Food Ministry
Davis Shipbuilding wins British freighter contract
Ottawa reports a $10,000,000 award to the Davis Shipbuilding Company for six large freight ers to be built at Levis Quebec for the British government.
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Ottawa
Davis Shipbuilding Company
Levis
Que
Renewed Hope in France Says Duff Cooper in BBC Address
Alfred Duff Cooper, Britain’s Information Minister, told the BBC the spirit of France is alive and growing in vigor and that pro British sentiment is rising rapidly, especially in occupied France where German rule reminds people of what they lost. He said the mood shifted from exhaustion last June to growing confidence and belief that France’s future lies in British victory.
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London
Alfred Duff Cooper
British Broadcasting Corporation
France
Britain
Duff Cooper
Supplies For Greece From Canadian Red Cross London
Canadian Red Cross in London sent a large medical and clothing consignment to the Greek front. The shipment includes 7,000 pneumonia jackets 20,000 bandages 50,000 sterilized dressings 120,000 socks and 6,000 balaclava helmets to aid cold Albania conditions and heated Greek hospitals near the front. A Greek embassy spokesman praised Canada Greece ties and aviators aiding the army.
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London
Canadian Red Cross
Albania
Canada
Greece
Night fighters begin to show result in London air raids
An air ministry news service bulletin reports night fighters are showing results with more raiding bombers intercepted and those that get through attacked with some success. The number of night fighter squadrons is increasing. A pilot likens the job to swatting a wasp in a blackout room.
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London
Air Ministry
Conference on the Sirois report ends amid provincial opposition
Ottawa reports the conference on Dominion provincial relations collapsed as Ontario Alberta and British Columbia refused to discuss the Sirois report in wartime. Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Finance Minister Ilsley circulated differing views while Premier Hepburn warned against coercion.
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Ottawa
Sirois
Ontario
Alberta
British Columbia
Mackenzie King
King
Ilsley
Isley
Dominion
Hepburn
Justice
Lapointe
Pattullo
Aberhart
British minister in Washington named Sir Gerald Campbell
Sir Gerald Campbell the United Kingdom high commissioner in Canada is named British minister in Washington. He will act as second in command to Viscount Halifax and replace the Marquess of Lothian in diligence, moving from Ottawa to interpret U.S. policy for the former foreign secretary. Campbell assumed duties upon Halifax’s arrival.
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London
Gerald Campbell
United Kingdom
Canada
Washington
United States
Nevile Butler
Marquess of Lothian
Gerald
Viscount Halifax
Lord Lothian
Lord Halifax
Ottawa
Sir Gerald
British civilians endure harsher wartime toll than soldiers
Dr. Philip E. Wilson, medical director of the first American hospital unit in England, said civilians face a deadly mix of bombs and disease. He warned pneumonia epidemics loom in crowded air raid shelters and subways, noting civilian casualties are 30 to 40 percent lower than feared and October saw 10 to 12 thousand deaths, far above normal.
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New York
Philip E. Wilson
England
Hinev Excalibur
Ministry of Health
Wilson
Shows Amazing Efficiency London
Canadians trained under the Empire Air Scheme will join the Royal Canadian Air Force on graduation. Canadian Defence Minister J L Ralston and air and war office chiefs held weeks of conferences to expand the RCAF for home and abroad. Hon C D Howe toured camps inspecting equipment for future needs. Ottawa was to publish details soon. The British press hailed 160 signallers as amazing evidence of Empire air training efficiency.
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London
Royal Canadian Air Force
R.C.A.F
J. L. Ralston
Air and War Office
C. D. Howe
Ottawa
Canada
Britain
Royal Air Force
Hull Urges Swift Aid to Britain Against Axis Aggression
Secretary Cordell Hull told the House Foreign Relations Committee that the United States must not be diverted by German threats and urged speedy passage of the aid-to-Britain bill. He warned that Germany could cross the Atlantic if Britain falls and condemned Axis expansion, noting Japan's destructive plans in the Far East and the axis powers intent to overturn the world order.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
House Foreign Relations Committee
Great Britain
Germany
Atlantic
Britain
English Channel
Hull
Roosevelt
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Japan
Far East
Orient
Italy
Ottawa Tender Accepted for 35 Million Dominion Treasury Bills
Finance Minister Asley announced tenders were accepted for the full amount of 35,000,000 Dominion of Canada treasury bills due April 18, 1941.
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Ottawa
Asley
Dominion of Canada
Treasury
Plans to Meet War Labor Issues in Canada
Ottawa representatives of provincial labor departments conferred with federal Labor Minister McLarty on frequent Dominion-provincial conferences. They agreed to develop programs addressing wartime labor issues and to coordinate supply and demand across provinces amid varying labor availability. The meeting reviewed the 1941 war training plan and youth training, with no commitment on further federal relief beyond March 31.
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Ottawa
McLarty
Sirois
Dominion
Dominion Department of Labor
Errick Willis
Manitoba
Cross
Alberta
Pearson
British Columbia
Parker
Saskatchewan
Adam Bell
Dean F. C. Cronkite
University of Saskatchewan
W. W. Dawson
George Collins
A. A. Mackenzie
E. W. Griffith
Fascism Doomed Glasgow Says Air Secretary
Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair told a Glasgow meeting that fascism is doomed and Italy is in peril of Nazi domination. He warned no relaxation of Britain's war effort until Hitler and Goering are destroyed. He blamed Mussolini for Italy's disaster and hoped Ethiopia will regain independence. praised Allied cooperation in Egypt and Libya.
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Glasgow
Sir Archibald Sinclair
Italy
Hitler
Goering
Germany
Archibald
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Sir Archibald
Egypt
Libya
Germany Fears Immediate Action as US Aid to Britain Looms
The Turkish paper Ulus said Germany is torn by anxiety and urged immediate action before the United States can aid Britain. It likened today's position to 1917 when US backing threatened Germany and warned it could be Germany’s undoing again.
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London
United States
Britain
Ulus
British Broadcasting Corporation
Germany
Alus
Europe
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