Program for a better empire relationship
The Commonwealth and Empire Review calls for a three point plan to improve ties between Whitehall the Commonwealth and Fanpire. It urges grouping the Foreign Office Dominions Office and Colonial divisions while maintaining dominion minded foreign policy expanding Foreign Office staff including dominion postings and establishing British diplomatic reps in each dominion province to boost public relations and understanding of Britain for coherence of the Commonwealth.
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Commonwealth and Empire Review
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Canberra
Ottawa
Britain
Underground Norway opens with royal attendance in Oslo
The unique Oslo exhibit titled Underground Norway attracts thousands including King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav. It showcases future museum pieces once secret, such as illegal printing presses, camouflaged radios, Milorg relics, and a full scale forest hut used by the underground army with parachutes and Allied supply drops.
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Oslo
Norway
Haakon
Olav
Air-Sea Rescue Ops Patrolling Trans-Atlantic Routes
Royal Navy corvettes act as air sea rescue units on seven east Atlantic routes. HMS Berkeley Castle, commanded by Lt Cmdr A C Palmer, reports a busy patrol with 660+ aircraft radioed through but seldom seen. Routes run Britain to Iceland and Casablanca to the Azores. crews stay about two weeks per station. Canadian ships not involved in eastern Atlantic rescue duty.
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A. C. Palmer
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Berkeley Castle
Piccadilly Circus
Atlantic
Britain
Iceland
Casablanca
Azores
Royal Canadian Navy
Engineer of Victory Honored by Society of Engineers
The article notes Winston Churchill, a journalist by training and statesman by career, has been named Engineer of Victory as an honorary fellow by the Society of Engineers. President Frank Parrett said the title reflects Churchill's leadership and the wartime engineering effort under his guidance.
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Horses for Mounties Size of force shows few mounts
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police report tabled in the Commons shows 141 horses for 2,642 Mounties in Canada. The horse total fell by three from the prior year while automobiles rose by 36 to 754.
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Canada
Britain's War Value of Ulster Highlighted in London Speech
Sir Basil Brooke argues Ulster's wartime role proved vital to Britain and the Empire. He cites Northern Ireland ports, air bases, shipyards, and training sites that would have been lost had a united Ireland formed. Toronto Telegram.
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Basil Brooke
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Canada
United States
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Toronto Telegram
wartime Britain bread praised for vitamins and health
Britain's wartime loaf, brownish yet rich in vitamins, was credited with improving health as Parliament debated a policy to prioritize public health in nutrition. Lords noted extraction rates rose to 85 percent then fell to 80 percent, with concerns over so called poverty bread and balance between taste and health.
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Britain
James McCook
House of Lords
Lords
Lord Hankey
Lord Woolton
Lord Horder
Russian paper industry resumes growth amid war impact
Russia’s paper production, cut by about 50 percent during the war, is rising with export potential emerging. Assistant commissar A. E. Izvekov reports restoration in Ukrainian districts and partial revival at a Leninograd factory.
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Russia
A. E. Izvekov
People's Cellulose and Paper Industry
Kodak reveals faster color printing process in Rochester
Eastman Kodak Company discloses a dye transfer color process in Rochester New York that cuts color printing time to ten minutes or one eighth of prior durations. The new method offers higher quality than the fastest wash-off process previously used.
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Rochester
N.Y
Eastman Kodak Company
First American Locomotive Bought from England
The first locomotive ever operated in the United States was purchased in England, marking an early cross Atlantic order in railroad history. The details highlight the海外 origins of U.S. rail propulsion and the transition to domestic industrial progress.
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United States
England
Surviving Nazism in Occupied Germany Faces New De-Nazification Hurdles
Observers in Weisbaden report persistent Nazi influence despite Allied orders. Nazis evade Rule No 8 by transferring businesses to wives and children, forming fake football teams to meet, and uniting to protect former party members.
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Weisbaden
Miltary
Was Quick Thinker Eight-Year-Old Avoids Harm
Eight-year-old David Raichert of Littleton used a culvert as a foxhole and escaped injury as two cars collided at the spot he had stood awaiting a school bus. He dived into the culvert just before one vehicle rolled over the area. The article notes disease and pests appear when plants are cultivated on a large scale.
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Littleton
Cole
David
Tragedy and Hope in Atomic Power Discussed at Toronto
Dr Sidney E Smith urged moral control alongside scientific progress as he spoke after his installation as University of Toronto president. Premier Drew cited universities' role in spreading understanding of human relations and warned that civilization fate hinges on this work. Also noted wereHarvard President James Conant and several honorary degree recipients from Cambridge McGill UBC and Saskatchewan universities.
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Sidney E. Smith
University of Toronto
Smith
University of Manitoba
Drew
Ontario
James B. Conant
Harvard University
Brace
Conant
J. D. Cockcroft
Cambridge University
F. Cyril James
McGill University
Norman A. M. MacKenzie
University of British Columbia
J.S. Thomson
Saskatchewan University
Ottawa Bus Terminal Signals Explain Nowhere Sign
A sign reading nowhere appeared at an Ottawa terminal sparking travel questions. Bus officials said the sign is needed to stop passengers from boarding and waiting all night for a bus that isn’t departing.
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Ottawa
Canada process keeps 75 percent of wheat vitamin value
Albert E. Cliffe, a food chemist, told an Ontario meeting of the Independent Master Bakers' Association that a new Canadian process can retain 75 percent of a wheat kernel’s vitamin content in white flour.
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Albert E. Cliffe
Master Bakers’ Association of
Ontario
Canada
English Language Spoken by Hundreds of Millions Worldwide
The English language is spoken by about 300 million people, among roughly 2.06 billion speakers globally, making it a dominant lingua franca across many regions. This estimate highlights English’s widespread use in education media business and international communication.
World Production of Natural Rubber Under Review
A London meeting of the rubber study group will examine how postwar demand may outstrip supply. World consumption could reach about 1,506,000 tons yearly, with production near 1,500,000 tons. The fate of synthetic rubber plants and policy by the inter agency committee will shape future supplies and pricing.
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Far East
London
United States
Inter-Agency
Malaya
Netherlands East Indies
Ceylon
Indo-China
Siam
Sarawak
Chicago Daily News
Digging yields Anglo-Saxon coin hoard near Tetney
Plowman Herbert Lingard recommended an extra deep furrow near Tetney in Lincolnshire. The following day Morris Walter Holden found 100 silver pennies dating to Edred Edwy and Edgar periods, buried in chalk in a field. An inquest at Grimsby ruled Holden the finder and awarded a reward.
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Herbert Lingard
Tetney
Grimsby
Eng
Morris Walter Holden
Edred
Edwy
Edgar
Holden
London Daily Mail
Dresden farmer finds unusually large egg from hen
Allen Pavey of Dresden Ontario notes his 300 plus hens lay normal eggs. He was surprised to find one hen laid an extra large egg measuring 8 1 2 inches in circumference and weighing about a quarter pound, larger than any double yoked egg he has seen.
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Allen Pavey
Dresden
Ont
Pavey
They May Be Right on Trials of Nazi Criminals
A Gallup like poll among high Germans reveals near indifference to Nazi war crimes trials. Some respondents say trials waste time and advocate shooting as a preferred method over legal proceedings.
Pluto’s Orbit Hint of Change in 1988
A 1930 discovery places Pluto as the ninth planet. Its orbit is 50 eccentric, so in 1988 it may swing closer to the Sun than Neptune, potentially becoming the eighth most distant world in the solar system.
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Pluto
Neptune
Solar System
Work And Economize
Optimists predicting deep postwar tax cuts are urged to face reality. Canada’s war debt will rise by about 10 billion dollars by year end 1938, with interest on nearly 300 million yearly. Taxation will stay heavy for years. the remedy is to work, raise production, and curb tax demands that stifle growth.
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Micawber
Canada
Financial Post
Canada’s Sea Foods Could Boost Exports After War
D. 8. Finn, federal deputy minister of fisheries, said at Montreal that Canada’s sea foods and fish products play a vital role in the economy and the nation can maintain and grow its export trade as it emerges from the war.
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Canada
Finn
Montreal
Forced labor toll on Siam-Burma railway revealed
Southeast Asia Command says 73 502 people sent by the Japanese to build the Siam Burma supply railway in forced labor in London report 12 269 returned and 24 490 known dead.
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Southeast Asia Command Headquarters
London
Siam-Burma
Old Folk Prescriptions For Rheumatism
A list of folk cures includes wearing a lead ring and a brass belt, using a nutmeg necklace, sleeping with a dog, donning red flannel garments, and carrying a potato or horse chestnut buckeye, reflecting rustic remedies from past practice.
Nimrod Named as Mighty Hunter in Genesis Verse
The Bible refers to Nimrod as a mighty hunter before the Lord in Genesis chapter 10 verse 9, tracing the name Nimrod for hunters to this line of Ham's grandson.
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Nimrod
Ham
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