Parliament Opens as King Edw VI Abdication Looms
The Canadian House and Senate convene the new session with the throne speech outlining key aims. It commits to revising the Canadian National Railways capital structure and ratifying a new UK trade accord while addressing the abdication and succession under Westminster law.
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Canada
British Commonwealth of Nations
Edward I the Eighth
Westminster
Parliament of
George
Provi’ Aion
London
League of Nationa
League
United States
German French treaty talks move toward trade pact
The announcement marks the first official indication of a rapprochement between Germany and France after strained relations over the Spanish Civil War. It states Dr Hjalmar Schacht cancelled his Paris trip and that negotiations will be handled by departmental experts in Berlin and Paris.
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Germany
France
Hjalmar Schacht
Paris
Ir. Schacht
Berlin
Canada’s 1930s relief and reform agenda outlined
The speech notes progress by the national employment commission and relief efforts, closing relief camps, completing unemploy ment registries, and farm employment plans. It highlights home improvement programs, the Western Canada drought response, and consolidations in public services. It mentions Bank of Canada control, a planned trans Atlantic air service, and expansion of railway authority, with bills for rural and urban home loans, trade combines, pensions for the blind, and debt payments in gold. It closes with a call for Commons consideration and divine blessing.
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National Employment Commission
Canada
Public Service
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Board of Directors
Canadian National Railways
Bank of Canada
Trans- Atlantic Air Service
Board of Railway Commissioners
Canadian National Railway
House of Commons
Senate
British destroyer frees British vessel in Gibraltar Straits
A British destroyer Sussex forced an armed Spanish insurgent trawler to release the steamship Bramhill after the trawler stopped her. Bramhill proceeded toward Bilbao as officials cited firm action to protect British ships from unlawful interference. Reports also touched copper mine seizures and alleged bombings, with Britain protesting to Franco’s junta.
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London
Bramhill
Straits of Gibraltar
Sussex
Bilbao
Spain
Francisco Franco
Rio Tinto
Tharsis
Germany
Gibraltar
Britain
Franco
Mussolini Wins Pilots License in Stunt Flight
Premier Mussolini earned his military pilot's license after climbing nearly 15,000 feet and looping the loop in his trimotor aircraft. The 53 year old leader received his insignia from General Giuseppe Valle, air ministry under secretary. The Union of South Africa began a 25 million dollar road construction program.
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Rome
Mussolini
Ti Duce
Giuseppe Valle
Air Ministry
The
Union of South Africa
Goering's Rome visit signals arms talks and colonial aims
Premier Mussolini's stance on armaments and German colonial ambitions draws Air Minister Goering to Rome. Officials say discussions will probe how far Mussolini will go if Hitler pushes the colonial issue in talks with France. Negotiations for a Germany France trade treaty are under way, witharmaments pledges and peace in Europe likely to follow.
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Premster Munsell
Berlin
Mussolini
Hermann Goering
Rome
Reich
Hitler
France
Giuseppe Valle
Iralian
Goering
Foreign Office
Germany
Europe
Foreign Enlistment Act applies to Dominions debate
Legal experts consider whether the Foreign Enlistment Act covers Dominions without repealing laws. The prevailing view holds it applies to all British subjects, in or from the dominions, unless a dominion has passed contrary legislation. Volunteers for Spain from any dominion face two years' imprisonment, unless their dominion has expressly exempted. The Statute of Westminster clause IV requires explicit consent for UK acts to extend to a dominion. The abdication bill for Canada shows such consent.
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London
Dominions
Spain
United Kingdom
Parliament
Dominion
Canada
Change In Status Cairo Embassy Opens For Sir Miles Lampson
Sir Miles Lampson, newly titled ambassador to Egypt, presented credentials to the regency council at Abdin palace as elaborate pageantry announced the shift from British high commissioner to ambassador under the recent Anglo Egyptian treaty ratifications. A state coach procession and a guard of honor accompanied the greeting with the British anthem played.
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Cairo
Miles Lampson
Egypt
Abdin Palace
Miles
South Africa Needs Men Cape Town
The Department of Labor reported employment conditions in South Africa are strong and said it could readily place 2,000 men if available, signaling ample job opportunities and workforce demand in Cape Town.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Department of Labor
Department
Resobption On Order Paper Conscription Of Wealth For War Perposes Will Be Discosend
In the forthcoming session of the House of Commons a resolution by T. C. Douglas of Weyburn Saskatchewan calls for automatic conscription of all wealth during any war in which Canada participates. The motion seeks legislation and penalties for violations.
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Ottawa
House of Common
T. C. Douglas
Body Returned to Brussels From Madrid Embassy Attack
The body of Baron Jacques de Borchgrave, a Belgian at the Madrid embassy, was brought to Toulon aboard the French destroyer Kersaint. Belgium ordered Valencia to remove the body from Spain after he was killed in an uprising among foreign volunteer troops. The coffin will go to Brussels by special train.
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Toulon
France
Jacques de Borchgrave
Madrid
Kersaint
Belgium
Valencia Socialist Administration
Spain
Brussel
Tariffs Tied to Cheap Wheat Explain Tariff Roots
Winnipeg witnesses argued before the Turgeon royal grain commission that tariffs arose to shield economies from cheap wheat and not from high prices. E K Williams cited fears of exports manipulating prices, while A E Darby noted buyers were reluctant to pay above necessity for Canadian grain. The Winnipeg Grain Exchange favored free markets, considering a wheat board only as a potential aid.
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Winnipeg
E. K. Williams
Manitoba Pool Elevators, Limited
Turgeon
Royal Grain Commission
Williams
A. E B. Darby
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Mr. Williams
Darby
Australia
Grain Exchange
W. F. A. Turgeon
Regina
A. E. Hoskin
K.C
Isaac Pitblado
Exchange
Irish Free State May End Trade War With Britain
London reports a possible settlement of the five year trade feud between Great Britain and the Irish Free State after a lengthy conference between President Eamon de Valera and Dominions Secretary Malcom Macdonald. A second meeting was expected to issue a formal statement. Participants included John W Dulnaty, Dennis Devlin, and Sean Brennan.
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Britain
London
Great Britain
John W Dulnaty
Free State
Dublin
de Valera
Wheat Carryover Solved Ottawa
Canada heads into the new session with the wheat surplus largely resolved. January 8 stocks show 146,353,672 bushels less than last year, and with a July 31 carryover of 108,747,059 bushels the surplus could be wiped out if sales stay near last year’s pace. European buyers, including the United Kingdom, seek wheat to stockpile amid potential war concerns. The carryover peaked at 211,740,188 bushels in 1933 and remained about 203,273,046 in 1935.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Canada
United Kingdom
French Minister Receives Souvenir From Canadian Legion Leader
Brig. General Alex Ross presents Hon. Raymond Brugere French minister to Canada with a pilgrim badge and the souvenir book of last year’s Vimy pilgrimage. Ross thanks Brugere for facilitating the pilgrimage’s progress in France.
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Canada
Ottawa
France
Alex Ross
C.M.G
Yorkton, Sask
Dominion
Canadian Legion
Raymond Brugere
Ross
Resignation of Dr Raoul Poulin from Quebec legislature
The government accepted the resignation of Dr Raoul Poulin Union Nationale member for Beauce county. He tendered Nov 15 without giving a reason. A by election date was not set leaving the house with Union Nationale 75 Liberal 14 and one vacancy.
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Quebec
Raoul Poulin
Union Nationale
Beauce County
Poulin
Liberal
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