Wartime Miracles Across Britain Amid Destruction
A reflective survey cites miracles in Britain during World War II, from smooth Channel crossings at Dunkirk to St Paul’s Cathedral surviving bombardment. It notes Bath Bristol and Portsmouth as sites where towers stood despite widespread damage, symbolizing steadfast faith and resilience.
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England
Dunkirk
Hitler
Russia
Britain
Maidenhead
Mrs. Miniver
English Channel
Channel
Red Sea
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
St. Paul's
Viscount Halifax
Bath
Beacen
Bristol
St. Mary Redcliffe
St. Mary
Bow Church
Cheapside
Christ Church
Newgate
Gray Friars
St. Nicholas Cole Abbey
Vieterai St
St. Mary Somerset
Upper Thames St
St. James Garrick Hythe
St. Vedas
Foster Lane
St. Lawrence Jewry
St. Giles Cripplegate
St. Brides
Portsmouth
Lift to Old Furniture Set Crochet Pattern 7430
Turn old furniture into new with a filet crochet set for chair or couch. Includes love-bird motif and pineapple border with charts and instructions. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Depart ment, Winnipeg Newsppper Union, 175 McDermot Avenue E, Winnipeg Man for Pattern 7430. War savings certificates offer 25 percent gain at maturity.
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Acto Household Arts Department
Winnipeg
McDermot Avenue E
Franco’s adopted children rebuild Spanish towns abroad
After four years of civil war Spain slowly rises. Many towns and villages are rebuilt or moved. The General Directorate of Devastated Regions employs architects and technicians to reconstruct towns, with 148 designated as Franco’s adopted children. Belchite and Camille illustrate moves to new sites while old towns remain as monuments.
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Spein Is & Country Gero & A
Madrid
Franco
General Directorate of
Belchite
Zaragoza
Camille
Teruel
Municipal Journal
London
Wild horses and western mysteries inspire eastern minds
The Winnipeg Tribune reports Gaston Marsan of the Quebec Belgian Breeders Association noting great herds of wild horses roaming the West and calling for their conscription in the war. A separate line notes doctors at age 30 have shorter life expectancy than the average person.
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Prairie Provinces
Gaston Marsan
Quebec
Marson
Winnipeg Tribune
Italian POWs Demand British War Savings Certificates
Thousands of Italian prisoners in Britain work in agriculture and plan to invest their earnings in British War Savings Certificates. The commandant argued this aids Britain’s war effort, but the prisoners insist the funds will be safe if placed in war savings.
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Britain
Metal plating curbed by wartime controls in 1943
The Munitions Department stated that metal articles for civilians in 1943 will lack the bright finish of pre war days. Plating with nickel cadmium or any cadmium alloy is prohibited except with a permit from the metals control.
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Munitions Department
Sicily As Key Cockpit In World Struggle, Historian Warns
John Cahill surveys Sicily as a pivotal wartime hinge linking Africa and Europe. He notes its proximity to Tunisia and Calabria, its use by Axis for Rommel, and its strategic airfields and ports, warning that Sicily’s fate shapes the Mediterranean and Allied invasion timing.
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Sicily
John Cahill
Allied
North Ames
Royal Air Force
United States Army Air Corps
Middle East
Mediterranean
Africa
Europe
Kingdom of Italy
Marsala
Cape Bon
Tunisia
Messina
Reggio di Calabria
Adolf Hitler
Erwin Rommel
Dietloff von Arnim
Bernard Law Montgomery
Eighth Army
el Alamein
Tripoli
Hitler
Rommel
Montgomery
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dunkirk
Rommell
North Africa
Palermo
Trapani
Barcellona
Agrigento
Licata
Passero
Siracusa
Catania
Patti
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Italy
Straits of Messina
Dalmatia
Adriatic
Greece
Norway
France
Cyprus
European
Mt. Etna
Bermuda Visit Reveals Aerial Insight On Insanity
A renowned alienist visiting Bermuda chats with a government official about diagnosing mental illness. The official asks how to tell if someone is insane and the doctor offers a riddle about Captain Cook’s voyages, noting that history knowledge tests judgment.
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Bermuda
Captain Cook
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Casablanca
Aberdeen
Canadian Pacific
Strathmere
Alta
Railway
Markham
Ontario
Coaldale
Canada
Calgary
Prince
Glenelg Glenelg
R.A.F
Africa Corps
Afrika Korps
R.A F
Tripolitania
Him
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