Churchill wins confidence vote in Commons over Greece Italy policy
Prime Minister Churchill defended Britain's Greece and Italy actions and won a 279 to 20 vote of confidence in the House of Commons. He said Britain would clear Athens of rebels to protect constitutional authority and rejected trusting Count Carlo Sforza whom the U.S. backed.
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Greece
Italy
London
Britain
House of Commons
Athens
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Halifax
Washington
Carlo Sforza
Sforza
Brit
Allied Landings Split Japanese Defenses in Leyte Campaign
American forces launched a bold invasion at Ormoc Bay trapping over 25,000 Japanese and severing the Yamashita line. Navy air and destroyer fire supported seaborne assaults as 13 ships of an enemy reinforcement convoy were destroyed and American pilots claimed multiple victories. Major Richard Bong added to his tally with two more medals amid the fast moving Leyte operations.
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Shreveport
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Associated Press
San Isiddo Bay
Mindanao
Rural Phone Plan Proposed by Senator Hill
Senator Hill of Alabama drafted legislation to create a rural telephone administration with a $50 million appropriation for loans to small companies. The program would issue self liquidating loans at 4 1/2 percent interest to build new rural lines and modernize existing systems.
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Tokyo Admits Earthquake Damages and Tidal Wave
The Domei news service acknowledged that a quake near Tokyo yesterday caused a tidal wave washing over houses, landslides, and damage to structures in Shizuoka Nagano and Hamamatsu with minor effects in Nagoya. Seismologists called it one of the great quakes recorded.
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Hamamatsu
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Greeks in Athens Clash as Leftist Forces Refuse Demobilization
Fratricidal fighting rages in Athens as the leftist ELAS and rival EDA refuse to disarm while the government under Premier Papandreou seeks peace and a non-political national army. British patrols press in as violence erupts around the Royal Palace and Acropolis amid postwar power struggles.
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Russian Third Ukraine army closes on Budapest from the west
Soviet field dispatches place Marshal Tolbukhin s 15 miles from Budapest as his armored right wing drives from the Danube toward the Hungarian capital. The advance pushes toward Szekesfehervar while German and Austrian reinforcements try to slow the flank.
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Danube
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Rodian Y. Malinovsky
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Austria
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Yugoslav National Liberation Army
Canadian Prime Minister Wins Confidence Vote Over Conscription
Ottawa reports the Canadian parliament backed Prime Minister W L McKenzie King by 143 to 70 in a decisive confidence vote after a 38 day crisis over overseas conscription. French Canada factions shifted to support the government ending a long national split.
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Europe
Canada
Quebec
Allies Break German Defense. Saar Area Seized In Smash
Third Army pushed into the Saarland cutting toward Saarbrucken as German fire rips the city. Seventh and Ninth Armies advance along a 35 mile front near the Rhine, taking Forbach and nearing the frontier. Heavy artillery invalidates key coal region and Saarlautern and Dillingen become bridgeheads amid cold rain and smoke.
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Alexander M. Patch
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Rhine
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Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
Inden
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Roer River
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Hurtgen Forest
Bergstein
Forbach
The Cologne Front and the Battle Plan
War analyst DeWitt Mackenzie argues the toughest battle lies ahead in the Cologne plain as Eisenhower pressures von Rundstedt. He notes the Ruhr shield and Rhine approaches, with heavy casualties likely and strategic aims on Berlin. The column hints at continued Allied offensives into German heartland.
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Dewitt Mackinzie
Associated Press
Patteron
Cologne
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Reich
Ike
Ruhr
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