Postwar Power Shifts Stir at Dumbarton Oaks Talks
Western Newspaper Union report analyzes postwar Russia status as a rising power. It notes Britain fears Russia, predicts US Soviet alliance dynamics, and warns the need for a concerted peace plan to prevent future war. It cites Senator Bushfield supporting a united executive council for military action.
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Russia
Washington
Dumbarton Oaks
London
Balkans
Europe
de Gaulle
Balkan
Italy
Germany
Japan
United States
South Dakota
Bushfield
Senate
Executive Council
Britain
China
Congress
Len- Connally
British farmers adapt as London evacuees join harvest drive
As 1944 harvest looms Britain faces labor shortages with army abroad and women already stretched. London evacuees age groups relocate to farms and learn dairy work while Britain increases mechanization, farm wages rise, and the Farm Survey guides wartime land use and subsidies.
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France
England
Women’s Land Army
London
U. S
Britain
Illinois
Indiana
Kent
Sussex
Essex
Middlesex
Channel
Postwar cinema to go international says Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck predicts the postwar film industry will be international in scope with foreign stars and studios abroad. He envisions a global audience, love stories crossing cultures, refashioned German film, and an expanded world cast while soldiers return with worldwide perspectives.
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Darryl F. Zanuck
Wilson
Zanuck
Twentieth Century-Fox
India
East
Germany
United States
St. Malo
Cassino
Chungking
Mitkyina
Truth Brought Back Jinx Falkenburg Chats Marines
Jinx Falkenburg in a Tahiti set chats visiting marines back from the South Pacific. She asks if she passes as a South Sea Island girl and a marine answers that she is underweight, smells too nice, and has too many teeth.
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Jinx Falkenburg
Tahiti
South Pacific
Jinx
South Sea Island
Britain Uses All Means to Keep Farm Labour On Land
The government mobilizes farm labor through hostels labor pools and gangs. Conscientious objectors are drafted to supplement the workforce while deferment schemes target workers on farms. District boards govern deferments under joint ministry schemes with exemptions for bona fide workers over 25 and key workers under 25 receive indefinite deferments.
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Ministry of Agriculture
National Farmers’ Union
Workers’ Unions
Central Landowners’ Association
Minister of Agriculture
England
London
Britain
Ministry of Works
Ministry of Labor and National Service
County War Agricultural Executive Committees
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Paul Mallor
Western Newspaper Union
State Department
Moscow
Hitler
Canada
Australia
Agricultural Farm Laborers’ Union
George Casely
George
Devon
British Isles
Hedde Oer
Hollywood
Darryl F, Zanuck
Vicks VA
Eee
Tae Ec Ee
the Nitragin CO
N. Booth St
Milwaukee, Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
WNU
Stearns
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