Japs Move Toward Peace as Demobilization Plans Unfold
The article outlines Japan's surrender process under General MacArthur and the emperor's role in halting hostilities. It details U.S. demobilization plans aiming to release about 7 million personnel by 1947, with point systems for enlisted men and officers, and WAVES adjustments. It notes postwar reconversion, price controls, rationing changes, and continued civilian employment efforts as industries shift to a peace economy.
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MacArthur
U. S
Manila
Higashi-Kuni
Tap
Military Aviation Board
Defense Headquarters
Supreme War Council
Japan
Navy
Congress
Army
G.i.s
Laborite policy and postwar plans outlined by King George VI
King George VI announced the Labor party program featuring nationalization of the Bank of England and coal mines and a plan to maintain wartime controls during reconversion. UNRRA chief Herbert Lehman urged over two billion dollars in extra aid for disaster relief as China faces mass destitution. France’s Charles de Gaulle spared Marshal Petain, sentencing him to life imprisonment for plotting against internal safety.
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Great Britain
United Kingdom
George VI
Bank of England
Pacific
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Herbert Lehman
UNRRA
London
Lehman
China
Stilwell Road
Australia
Unrra Control Council
France
Liberation Movement
Charles de Gaulle
Marshal Henri Petain
Petain
Indian Army as School of Unity for a Free India
Washington writer notes India's 24% million strong army as a unifying force. General Cariappa, a key leader, advocates an independent Indian army and a common tongue in a diverse nation, stressing literacy, leadership, and crossethnic teamwork. He highlights language bonds, training across nations, and hope for lasting national harmony.
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WNU Service
Eye Street NW
Washington, D. C
Washington
Russia
Japan
India
Punjab
Cariappa
Burma
Army Reorganization Committee
Woolwich
Sandhurst
Kingston
West Point
Indian Military Academy
United Nations
England
Army Teaches G I s Thrift Virtues Across Forces
War Department figures show 3,114,910 active Class E allotments by end of June, directing pay to dependents or institutions. Over 40 million dollars has paid civilian life insurance premiums for soldiers in three years. In June alone, 263,227 flowed to building and loan and savings and loan associations under the home savings plan.
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War Department Office of
Building and Loan and Savings and Loan Associations
G.I. Joe
Record Crop Forecast Highlights 1945 Harvest Prospects
The 1945 harvest is projected as the third best in history with record wheat and oats output and strong yields in peanuts rice peaches pecans and truck crops. Sugar cane and beet production rise while corn falls. soil conservation warns 90 percent of farmland needs treatment and millions of man years and equipment will be required for erosion control.
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Department of Agriculture
The
Soil Conservation Service
Prewar Car and Home Goods Shortfall Amid War Economy
The Department of Commerce estimates Americans bought about 28 billion dollars less of automobiles and parts and furniture and house furnishings from 1942 to 1944 than in prewar volumes. Actual auto expenditures were 1.8 billion versus 16.2 billion expected. a deficiency of 14.4 billion.
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Department of Commerce
Barbs by Baukhage Pravda satire
The piece parodies Stalin calling Japan an aggressor in 1936 and quips about slow Red Army. It jokes about a wife asking a late husband and notes Dutch arrests by Germans, predicting roaming questions, while comparing events to a shell game with roasted eggs from slot machines.
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Pravda
Stalin
Japan
Red Army
Face Saver Racks Free For Closet Doors
Handy door mounted racks create nearly three inch deep storage for daily use items leaving shelves free. Curved front supports hats and a lower rack with hanger rod stores smaller items and toys. Cut from plywood scraps with a convass saw patterns and directions included for Pattern 283. send 15c with name and address.
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Convass
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Western Newspaper Union
U.S
Davis
Schwellenbach
White House
OPA
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
New York City
Laborite
Britain
Marshal
Washington Digest
Thrift
Baukhage
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Boeing
B. F. Goodrich
California
Union
Michigan State Highway Department
Bfgoodrich
Spurlock-Neal Co
Nashville
Tenn
McKesson & Robbles
Pinkham
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