National Trust Jubilee Marks a Century of Preserving Britain
The article details the National Trust's Jubilee as it celebrates fifty years since founding and outlines its vast holdings across England Wales and Northern Ireland. It highlights Woolsthorpe Manor the Lincolshire birthplace of Isaac Newton and notes prized properties from Avebury to Runnymede and Clouds Hill. The piece explains funding via memberships and donations and cites royal and government support for preservation work.
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Lincolnshire
Woolsthorpe Manor
Britain
England
Woolsthorpe
National Trust
Royal Society
Pilgrim Trust
Newton
National Trust For
Octavia Hill
Robert Hunter
Canon Rawnsley
Lake District
Great Playground
Lakeland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Avebury
Wiltshire
Europe
Besham
Sussex
Harold
Normandy
Runnymede
John
Southwark
London
Kent
St. John’s Jerusalem
Knights Hospitallers
Swanton Morley
Norfolk
Abraham Lincoln
John Winant
U.S.A
Quebec House
Westerham
Wolfe
Juniper Halli Box
Trust
Scafell Pike
East Anglia
Devon
Cornwall
Rommel's Horse Now Live in British Royal Stables
The famed Arabian horse once ridden by Rommel is sheltered at Windsor Castle. Captured in North Africa by Montgomerys Eighth Army, the steed was sent to Melton Mowbray remount depot and is now trained for royal processions. Radar tracks hurricanes to warn vast areas and save lives.
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British Royal Stables
Windsor
New York
Erwin Rommel
Cairo
Windsor Castle
Stockholm
Aftonbladet
North Africa
Lord Montgomery
Eight
Afrika Korps
Melton Mowbray
Spy Ring Subversive Movement Exposed in Stuttgart Zone
United States intelligence says a ring of German spies operated in the American occupation zone as undercover agents for Soviet Russia. Fifteen Germans were arrested after months of covert activity linked to a secret group named Free Germany. Ring leader Walter Kazmarek suspected of contact with Russian agents and accepting money.
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United States
Stuttgart
Germany
Soviet Russia
United States Army
Frankfurt
Free Germany
Walter Kazmarek
Small Farm Prospects And Independence For Families
The piece argues small farms offer more than income, supplying food clothing and shelter. It envisions wartime jeep adaptations aiding farm work and travel and predicts thousands of five to forty acre farms near Canadian cities in coming decades, citing irrigated blocks around Lethbridge.
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Lethbridge
Lethbridge Herald
Jet trip NY to Boston in 21 minutes 51 seconds
The Ottawa Journal notes a jet plane covered roughly 200 miles from New York to Boston in 21 minutes and 51 seconds. The piece ponders whether modern ingenuity overemphasizes speed while many needs remain pressing and tragic.
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Ottawa Journal
New York
Boston
Fifth Column Term Coined by Spanish Civil War General Mola
The phrase fifth column is attributed to Spanish General Emilio Mola during the Spanish Civil War as he described his plan to use internal forces to aid a siege from within. This coined term has since entered common usage to denote internal or sympathizing adversaries.
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Mola
French Empire in Revolutionary Change and Union Question
The article argues that the French Empire is undergoing a revolutionary shift influenced by rising nationalism in Indo China North Africa and other colonies. It notes varying responses to autonomy movements, the impact of external intrigue, and the challenge of building a Parisian style administration and a French Union acceptable to diverse colonial subjects and colonialists.
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George Slocombe
New York Herald Tribune
Middle East
Far East
France
French Union
Indo- China
North Africa
Vichy
Empire
de Gaulle
Indo-China
India
China
Indonesia
Siam
Egypt
Central Africa
French Equatorial Africa
French Empire
Martinique
Senegal
Chamber of Deputies
Tunisia
Negro Africa
Algeria
Europe
Africa
Asia
Marius Moutet
Georges Bidault
Wartime ban lifted on natural rubber in sports balls
Government announces end of wartime ban allowing natural rubber usage in the manufacture of baseball golf tennis and squash balls and other equipment. Archives in York reveal 700 years of ecclesiastical records. Clyde ships launch twelve vessels in June. London embankment gardens to harvest £200000 crops. German policy permits British children holidays with parents this Christmas.
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United States
Lacy Filet Crochet Hostess Apron Pattern 7489
Crochet pattern 7489 features a lacy hostess apron with a treble background and open mesh pansy motif. Easy filet crochet with directions and chart. send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department at Winnipeg Newspaper Union with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Ancient Egyptian Game Like Checkers Found From 1600 B C
Archaeologists report a board game from ancient Egypt dating to about 1600 B C that resembles checkers with alternating light and dark squares and pieces moved along diagonal lines. The find highlights early battleground play and social recreation in Thebes.
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Clouds Hill
Degset
Lawrence of Arabia
RAF
Burwash
Rommel
American Eagles
Sne Ron
Hungerford
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Elan
Col. C. S. Irvine
Hawaii
North Pole
Seattle
Wash
Airtermat A Novise
Pacusan
Fairfield
Calif
Col
Irvine
York
Eng
Glasgow
Clyde Ships
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Herford
Alice Brooks
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