Genocide Pact fears dominate editorial stance
The News-Star warns that United Nations Genocide Pact threats to U S sovereignty risk transforming domestic law into international rule. It cites executive power shifts, past attempts, and calls for vigilance against one world advocacy groups and a looming 1955 timetable for UN Charter revision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Truman
U. N
Supreme Court
United States
United Nations
Senate
Bricker
U. S
News-Star
Atlantic Union Committee
Soviet Union
Harry Truman
Unesco
World Federalists
American Association For the United Nations
Kangaroos and Wool on an Australian Sheep Station Visit
A correspondent visits Cuppacumbalong near Canberra and recounts riding, counting kangaroos, and watching sheep shearing. He dines with Mr and Mrs Snow, notes vast outback isolation and car noise, then tries shearing a Merino, describing the clippers, wool, and a robust cup of tea before departing with the drovers.
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Canberra
M. Peter Snow
Mary
Peter
Mrs. Snow
California
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Snow
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Geneva Talks While Asia Burns
A 1954 King Features Syndicate column critiques Geneva talks on Indochina, noting six weeks of discussion with no gains while Communists advance in Dien Bien Phu, Hanoi, and Saigon. It cites U S Britain France and New Zealand talks, U S push for Asian inclusion, and France resistance to decolonization.
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Washington
Nero
Rome
Geneva
Southeast Asia
Red China
World Council of Nations
Indo China
Far East
Dien Bien Phu
Hanoi
Indo- China
Vietnam
Saigon
Thailand
Burma
Malaya
West
United States
Great Britain
France
Australia
New Zealand
Britain
U. S
Philippines
John
NAACP Aims 1963 Target for Full Racial Equality
NAACP officials outline a 1963 target to end second class citizenship across employment housing education voting and health. They plan a lobby publicity drive and political action campaign to pass non discrimination laws abolish poll taxes and curb Jim Crow while expanding the Negro electorate by 1956 and pushing school integration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NAACP
Congressional Quarterly
Congress
Senate
Association
NAACP Leaders and Structure Highlighted in 1954 Overview
A Congressional Quarterly profile outlines NAACP origins on Lincoln's birthday 1909 with founders Mary White Ovington Oswald Villard and W E B Du Bois. It notes key figures Arthur Spingarn Walter White and Thurgood Marshall, plus branches 44 states plus DC and Hawaii, and programs from legislation lobbying to youth and church initiatives.
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NAACP
Lincoln
Mary White Ovington
Oswald Garrison Villard
WE. B. du Bois
Wth
South
Southwest
Mid-West
Far West
Manhattan
District of Columbia
Territory of
Hawaii
Fach
Arthur B. Spingarn
Walter White
Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court
Washington
Clarence Mitchell
Baltimore
Mitchell
Congressional Quarterly
McCarthy and the CIA Unveiling Secretive Ties and Allegations
In a pointed critique the author argues that McCarthy will probe the CIA and its connections to White House circles and state department. The piece names Carmel Offie and others connected to Paris and New York networks, cites Pearl Harbor links, and warns against secret government operations funded by tax money and influenced by Trotskyists and ADA affiliations.
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New York
Central Intelligence Agency
McCarthy
White House
State Department
Carmel Offie
Bill Bullitt
Paris
Lafayette Park
Arizona
San Francisco
New England
CIA
Sam Carp
Bridgeport
Molotov
Senate
Dave Schine
Allan Dulles
John Foster
Walter Bedell Smith
Dulles
George Marshall
Pearl Harbor
General Staff
General Marshall
Marshall
Admiral Kimmel
General Short
Smith
Bedell Smith
Garment Workers’ Union
Europe
United States of America
Dave Dubinsky
Offie
Jay l Lovestone
Irving Brown
Reader’s Digest
Brown
Kremlin
de Witt Wallace
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
London
Dubinsky
Wallace
Spain
United States
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Houdini Faces An Escape That Fooled Him
A 20 year old hotel lobby tale recalls Houdini baffled when two Giant Bean handcuffs with opposite keyholes left no way to insert a key. The younger magician Dunninger vowed silence, illustrating mystic secrecy in magic. Henry Ford’s golden wedding sparks a quip about sticking to one car model.
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New York
Houdini
Dunninger
Henry Ford
Ford
Monroe News-Star launch and staff details
The Monroe News-Star provides publisher and staff credits, noting founders, publishers, and executives from 1920 to 1952. It lists Associated Press affiliation and advertising representatives, plus a statement of its independent, impartial stance and political position.
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John D Ewing
Wilson Ewing
Monroe
News-Star—World Publishing Corporation
North Second Street
Associated Press
Monroe News-Star
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International Criminal Court
U.S
Henry Melemore
Queanbeyan
New South Wales
Commonwealth of Australia
Collie
By Hershberger
Reg Manning
Asia
Indo - China
Francé
Laos
Cambodia
Fulton Lewis
The
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Mopsy
Gladys Parker
Capitol Hill
John Cameron Swayze
New York Public Library
Society of American Magicians
Monroe News
Star
Robert Ewing, Jr
William H Bronson
Richard Hale
Branham Company
Chicago
Atlanta
Detroit
St Louis
Memphis
Dallas
Los Angeles
Charlotte
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