Canadian and British ties near as Ottawa rebukes Halifax
The piece notes a Pan-American Union chair hidden in a cellar and cites Leighton McCarthy and Prime Minister Mackenzie King as central to CanadaU S unity. It reports Canada’s stance toward closer Commonwealth cooperation and Halifax Smuts proposals amid Anglo American diplomacy.
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Washington
Canada
Leighton McCarthy
United States
Mackenzie King
Great Britain
Our Lady of the Snows
Rudyard Kipling
Alost
States
Ottawa
Lord Halifax
White House
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Halifax
Commonwealth
Jan Smuta
Union of South Africa
United Kingdom
House of Commons
King
Smuts
British Commonwealth
Pan-American Union
Mr. McCarthy
Basis for Industrial Cooperation in the Pacific Northwest
The Institute of Pacific Relations calls for Canadian American industrial cooperation linking Alaska, Yukon, Mackenzie Valley, northern British Columbia and Alberta. It highlights air routes, shared resources, and private capital to develop the Pacific Northwest, noting joint defense and development projects like the Alaska highway and North Pacific Planning as models of mutual profit.
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Institute of Pacific Relations
Alaska
Yukon
Macc
Kenzie Valley
British Columbia
Alberta
Canadian Northwest
Northwest
Asia
North America
Pacific Northwest
United States
Canada
Alaskan
North Pacific
Briefs on death rate and labor and polls from wartime era
The six month 1943 death rate in the United States reached 11.0 per 1 000, up 3 8 percent from 1942. China with 450 million people has 210 million acres under cultivation while the United States with 132 million people has 345 million acres. US railroad women hires rose 138 6 percent for year ending June 30 1943. A Swedish Gallup poll finds 84 percent favor a monarchy, 6 percent a republic, 10 percent undecided.
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United States
China
Rairoads
Gallup Institute
Sweden
White King of La Gonave Wirkus Crowned by Queen Ti Memenne
Marine sergeant Wirkus, later known as the White King of La Gonave, was crowned by Queen Ti Memenne after years of relief and reform on the Haitian island. He ruled the 12 000 natives as subdistrict commander from 1921 to 1925 and earned fame in books and Marine service.
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Vaddee
Ba Gonave
Faustin I
West Indies
Port Au Prince
la Gonave
Ebony
Faustin II
Marine Corps
Haiti
Ti Memenne
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Wirkus
Navy
Chapel Hill
N. C
Alexander S. Williams
Ga Gonave
Tt Memenne
Tre Memenne
Fetin II
Oi Memenne
Faustin
Ieg
William B. Seabrook
Louis Borno
Leatherneck
Oj Memenne
Island of
Complaints of Wasted Manpower in Navy Draft Criticized
A confidential Lakehurst survey cites excess manpower use at naval bases and idle shore duty. It notes civilians doing work sailors could, calls for action on underutilization, and shows draft quotas dipping through mid 1943 without protest.
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USA
Lakehurst
N. J
Lakehurst Commissary
Navy
OGU
Army
Capitol Hill
Army Navy
Army-Navy
Armed Services
Truman Committee
Devildogs with One Gun Hold Guadalcanal Stand
Pfc Jack Sugarman recalls a three hour Guadalcanal fight where a small unit with a single machine gun repelled waves of Japanese assault. He says their weapon jammed five times and they moved it seven times as grenades mortars and flamethrowers rained down. About 125 Japanese soldiers lay dead before their sector.
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Pfc
Jack Sugarman
Sugarman
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Dan Nee
Internal Revenue
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Nee
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G. B. Shaw
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Grove
Hee Bae
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Lydia E. 'E. Pinkham
Lnvey
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