End of European War and Allied Occupation Plans
Six years after the German invasion of Poland, Germany surrenders to the Allies in Reims. The capitulation is ratified in Berlin with Zhukov present. Immediate postwar plans include occupation by the U S Britain and Russia, dismantling war industries, tight media control, civilian production return goals, and rationing continued amid a shift to Pacific operations and European relief efforts.
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Poland
Reims
France
Germany
Whermacht
Gustav Jodl
Fuehrer
Karl Doenitz
Walter Bedell Smith
Allied Command
Berlin
Marshal Gregory Zhukov
Europe
Russia
Count Ludwig Schwerin von Krosigk
von Krosigk
U. S
Britain
Pacific
East
Suez
Panama
Asia
Army
West Coast
Pacific Theater
Atlantic
Gulf
Pacific Territories
America
Navy
WPB
Babylonia
B.C
Marines Root Out Japs on Peleliu
Marine Combat Correspondent David Stick reports continued fighting on Peleliu six months after the initial landing. He notes the island’s small size and a maze of caves on Bloody Nose Ridge near the airstrip concealing many Japanese troops hidden since last September.
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Peleliu
Marine Combat
David Stick
Wisconsin
Kansas
Miami Beach
Fla
Bloody Nose Ridge
Farm Draft Revision Vetoed by President Truman
President Truman vetoed a Selective Service amendment that would have blanket deferred all essential farm workers. The vote to override fell short by 57 of the two thirds needed, while labor groups aligned over international union blocs. The AFL and CIO clashed over World Trade Union Congress and a proposed reorganization of postwar labor bodies.
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Congress
Harry S. Truman
Tydings
AFL
CIO
World Trade Union Congress
San Francisco
International Federation of Trade Unions
War Weaving Love and Loss From Living Husbands and Exile Poland
A California widow remarries after learning her first husband survived a bomber crash over Burma. She plans annulment to return to Lt Har old W. Goad while postwar Poland sees Moscow holding Polish exile leaders amid bitter Big Three talks and mutual accusations over wartime massacres.
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Robert A. McDowell
Long Beach
Calif
Harold W. Goad
Russians Lose Friends Over Chair Battle at San Francisco
At the San Francisco conference the Russians sparred with Latin American delegates over rotating the chair. Molotov clashed with Mexico’s Padilla, then backed by Belgium and Honduras, as Poland’s Lublin seat controversy drew protest from Eden. Molotov later earned praise for handling the chair well. CAPITOL CHAFF notes new drives to curb liquor shipments to servicemen and rising thefts of soldiers’ allotment checks.
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Washington, D. C
Russia
San Francisco
Red Army
Latin America
Rio Grande
Molotov
Mexico
Padilla
Chile
Joaquin Fernandez
Fernandez
Moscow
Argentina
Stettinius
Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Lublin
Lubasich
Yugoslavia
Anthony Eden
Spaak
Belgium
Caceres
Honduras
U.S.A
Republic of Honduras
Soviet Union
Lublin Poland
Capitol
Post Office Department
Veterans’ Hospitals
New York
Napoleon Bonaparte
Elba
Congress
America
Vienna
George
Power of the people shapes postwar world order
Washington Digest surveys the San Francisco United Nations conference, arguing the outcome hangs on the will of the people. Molotov dominates early talk, while Talleyrand-like diplomacy falters. the blueprint for world organization hinges on democratic momentum and public pressure.
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WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
San Francisco
United Nations Conference On International Organization
Creamery butter production by state in 1944
The Dairy Products Marketing association reports Minnesota still supplied 17 percent of U S creamery butter despite a 14 percent drop in 1944. Iowa and Wisconsin followed with 14.3 and 8.4 percent shares, Nebraska at 5.5 percent, all down versus 1943.
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Minnesota
U. S
Dairy Products Marketing Association
Towa
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Barbs at the San Francisco conference cartoons
Bankhag notes foreign delegates misreading the venue as Hollywood amid cameras and fine weather. He recalls taxi doors opening automatically, a sign of modern hospitality, and jokes about past formal fare behavior. A San Francisco restaurant ran out of orange juice, highlighting shortages.
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San Francisco
Hollywood
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Jol
U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Times Square
LABOR
McDowell Mana Us
Goad
London
Warsaw
Eden
Yalta
Big
Hing Tun Gta
Washington Digest
Baukhage
Talleyrand
Kaiser Wilhelm
Paris
Wilson
Clemenceau
Lloyd George
Stalin
Bear
Ezequil Padilla
Delta
World Organization
Demos
Bankhag
Begoodrich
St. Joseph
Aiwa
Ote Pele
Denver
Mare
Tyre
Gses
Georg Bessy
Erg
Ade
Fann
Serries
Renta
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