World Happenings Briefly Told
Army Minister P C Spender announced Australian casualties in the Syrian campaign total 1682 with 297 killed. British source said German raiders are stripping captured vessels. Canada Japan trade halted by freezes, about 8 5 million dollars last year. Corvettes built in Canada serve in UK and Canadian waters. Clermont Ferrand tribunal sentenced Free French followers. US Catalina flying boats to join Netherlands East Indies air fleet. Vichy troops to be moved from Syria Lebanon to Morocco and Dakar. Captain W J Symons appointed to UK Home Guard unit. European Red Cross delegate says no real famine in Europe.
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P. C. Spender
Reich
Japan
United Kingdom
Macdonald
Clermont Ferrand
Charles de Gaulle
United States
Catalina
Netherlands East Indies
Batavia
Reuters
Syria
Lebanon
Morocco
Dakar
W. J. Symons
Gallipoli
Home Guard
American Red Cross
Richard Allen
France
Europe
Inquiries to RAF Information Bureau Delight and Mischief
The Air Ministry Information Bureau answers about 10 000 weekly public inquiries on the RAF. A mix of wry questions appears from a garden spook raid to a Naples map bombing fantasy and a boy asking for a free Air Force uniform, with polite refusals and a joke about growing up for a free shirt.
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R.A.F. Information Bureau
Air Ministry Information Bureau
R.A.F
London Listener
Germany
Naples
Job Advertisement for Portraits of the Fuehrer
In a Nazi occupied Poland newspaper a general representative is sought to sell portraits of the Fuehrer. The ad requests a future post and asks applicants to enclose a photograph a short autobiography and references.
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Poland
Fuehrer
Parks in London Feel War In Quiet Summer
In London parks amid heat and greenery war devastation lies just out of sight as flowers bloom and ducklings roam. A newly arrived Canadian struggles with the unreal calm while Herbert Morrison urges postwar policy focused on health, nutrition, education, and a broad international alliance to secure social welfare and prevent a return to conflict.
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London
Perka
England
Herbert Morrison
Home Secretary
Home Security
Foreign Press Association
Morrison
America
Dominions
Colonies
United Kingdom
Nazi reorganization faces widespread French resistance
Nazi efforts to reshape the French economy met strong pushback as coal strikes and sympathy action spread from Northern France to Liege district miners. German authorities rushed blackshirt guards to mines while fishermen refused Nazi warnings. Hitler shifted labor, moving French workers into the Reich and Holland to curb organized resistance.
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France
Liege
Admiral Darlan
Hitler
Reich
Holland
Protect Positions Extension for Government Employees
A government order extending reemployment protection to employees who joined the forces under war service conditions was announced. An order-in-council states that those taken into the forces since Sept 7 1939 will keep their jobs after the war if they served in continuing non war positions and were assigned directly to such roles, not as replacements.
Westinghouse saves aluminum for 130 bombers in six months
A single large manufacturer, Westinghouse Electric, redesigned products with substitute materials, freeing more than 1,500,000 pounds of aluminum from 1941 needs to build 130 bombers. Nickel savings exceed 1,500,000 pounds and zinc savings reach 100,000 pounds as part of wartime material conservation.
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Westinghouse Electric
Idea Was Sound Eighteen Months Ago
The passage recalls that eighteen months earlier the idea of producing planes on an assembly line in Russia was considered ridiculous. It notes early Russian aircraft may have been unsafe to fly, but acknowledges that the notion is no longer laughed at today.
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Russia
Swedish Property Bombed by German Bombs in Britain
The American Swedish News Exchange in New York reports destruction of Swedish property in England and Ireland from German bombs. Vice Consulates in Liverpool Belfast Manchester and Sheffield are damaged along with Seamen's churches in Liverpool and London.
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England
Ireland
Swedish News Exchange
New York
Exchange
Liverpool
Belfast
Manchester
Sheffield
London
Matron Trim Waistband Mode Pattern 4810 by Anne Adams
Young style for thirty six to fifty figures with scalloped buttoning at waistline and V neck. Features include neat shoulder and waist darts, a just wide waistband, and a front panelled skirt. Pattern 4810 comes in sizes 36 to 50. fabric and trim yardage listed. send 20 cents to Winnipeg Pattern Dept. for ordering.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Russia Expects Long War Shape of Soviet Strategy
Soviet grand strategy centers on a prolonged conflict across multiple fronts, using vast resources and manpower to wear down enemies. It contrasts with blitz theories promising a sudden assault, based on discussions with Red Army officers in Spain and translated Soviet materials. Also notes U.S. army homing pigeons live years and mosquitoes fast after meals.
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Soviet Union
E. Cecil-Smith
Red Army
Spain
Epistle of James Sunday School Lesson Summary
Devotional notes on James 1 27 to 1 25 and 1 17 18 describe pure religion visiting orphans and widows, charity from God as Father of lights, swift hearing and slow speech, and the relation of faith and works. The commentary cites Ruskin and Expositor’s Greek Testament linking faith to action and the Shema as core.
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James
God
Ruskin
Brightest Stars Speaking in Windsor Ontario
Miss Beatrice Gordon Holmes, British banker, spoke in Windsor about wartime Britain. She described daily fear of tomorrow, but emphasized planning and resilience. She noted London life under bombings, blackout hardships, and having to relocate equipment to homes while offices burned or damaged.
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Windsor
Ont
Beatrice Gordon Holmes
England
Great Britain
Coventry Clock Repaired After Silence Over City Ruins
The Coventry Cathedral clock, over three centuries old, resumes striking hours after a winter repair by J. W. Eliot. An electrical chime once accompanied the hours but, with power cut, the clock alone sounds. Visitors hear a dulcet tone from beneath lime trees beside roofless walls of Coventry. In Denver Colorado, a rock carved seating area sits in the Park of the Red Creek near a natural stage.
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Coventry Cathedral
J. W. Eliot
Cathedral
Coventry
Birmingham Mail
Red Creek
Denver, Colo
Cape Breton takes early toxoid immunization pledge
The Health League of Canada cites the Canadian Public Health Journal to urge toxoid vaccination for children as early as possible. Cape Breton Island began a school diphtheria immunization program in Glace Bay in 1938, expanding provincewide to reduce cases and deaths. One or two doses proved insufficient, and preschool immunization was stressed to curb future epidemics.
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Cape Breton Island
Canadian Public Health Journal
The
Health League of Canada
Glace Bay
Cape Breton County
Slavery Report Details Polish Workers in Germany
The Polish Social Information Bureau reports one million Polish men and women sent to work in Germany wearing yellow marks with a P. It claims the move aims to reduce Poland to an agricultural hinterland and to power German industry as RAF raids shift Polish war production.
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Germany
Polish Social Information Bureau
New Order
Poland
London Daily Telegraph
Order Easily Obeyed by a Newly Promoted Colonel
A newly promoted colonel hosted a dinner for his regiment and urged bold feasting. Afterward he caught a sergeant slipping away with two bottles of wine. The sergeant quipped he was obeying orders, noting that when the enemy isn’t killed they are taken prisoner.
Britain rejects Lawrence of Arabia for front line duty
A fragment states that Britain formed Lawrence of Arabia was rejected for frontline service in the First World War due to anemia and short stature. The note references his early wartime fitness and potential later roles.
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Britain
Lawrence of Arabia
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