Japs Move Toward Peace as Demobilization Plans Set
As Japan nears surrender, Imperial leadership shifts to a peace economy. Prince Higashi-Kuni is tapped premier to back the emperor’s surrender, while demobilization plans target 7,000,000 released personnel by 1947. Navy and Army figures outline point-based discharge for 2,000,000 sailors and 6,000,000 soldiers within a year, with WAVES and overseas assignments adjusted. Reconversion moves include continued price controls, farm support, and inflation safeguards as wartime industries pivot to civilian production.
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MacArthur
U. S
Manila
Higashi-Kuni
Tap
Coudta
Military Aviation Board
Defense Headquarters
Supreme War Council
Japan
Navy
Congress
Army
Truman
Rusela
John J. O'Connor
Roosevelt
Army Teaches G I S thrift virtues to soldiers
The War Department reports thrift lessons spread through the Army with 3,714,010 active monthly Class E allotments to dependents by end of June. Over 40 million dollars have been paid to insurance companies in three years. In time savings plans, $263,227 went to building and loan associations for G I Joe to save for a home.
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War Department Office
G.I. Joe
Crops: Record yields signal strong harvest in 1945
The Agriculture Department projects 1945 harvests as the third best in history with wheat at 1.146 billion bushels and oats at 1.546 billion. Sugar cane and beet output rise, while corn declines to 2.844 billion. Farmland erosion risk remains severe. soil conservation urges major treatments and retirements of 43 million acres due to erosion and wetness.
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Department of Agriculture
The
Soil Conservation Service
Laborite Britain aims for nationalized Bank and coal mines
King George VI outlined the Labour party program as postwar Britain prepares for reconversion. Nationalization of the Bank of England and coal mines tops the agenda, with plans to retain wartime controls to ensure fair prices and steady distribution. The program also includes transport reform, social security, industrial insurance, housing land purchase, and planning machinery for investments.
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Great Britain
United Kingdom
George VI
Bank of England
World Relief Needs Boosted as War Ends
UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman warned that over two billion dollars in additional funds are required to aid stricken nations as the Pacific war ends. He outlined relief plans for Asia, including shipments to China via Stilwell road and coastal ports, while noting about 100 million Chinese are destitute. Australia pressed to widen UNRRA’s control council to nine members to broaden smaller nations’ say in fund allocation.
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Pacific
United Nations Relef
Rehabilitation Administration
Herbert Lehman
UNRRA
London
Lehman
China
Stilwell Road
Australia
Unrra Control Council
France names de Gaulle spared Petain life in verdict
The liberation leader Charles de Gaulle spared Marshal Henri Petain’s life, commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment for plotting against internal safety. The trial left a national indignity verdict in place as Petain spoke of loyalty to France and its people. Separately, the Commerce Department notes a consumer backlog with Americans buying far fewer autos and furniture from 1942 to 1944 than in prewar volumes, totaling billions in lost spending.
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France
Liberation Movement
Charles de Gaulle
Marshal Henri Petain
Nevetheless
Petain
Department of Commerce
Nizer List as Columnist Qualities and Examples
A humorous, critic, lexicographer, philosopher, economist, internationalist, historian, and reporter profile outlines ten traits for a columnist. Each item cites examples like radium, et al and notes dangers of secrecy, fascism, and powerful gases in warfare.
Emperor Hirohito's Western World Voyage Recalled
A veteran writer recalls Hirohito's 1921 tour to England and France with Renzo Sawada, a Quaker commoner. The piece details Japanese imperial worship, Shinto roots, and the prince's seven months abroad including a London public speech and a venture into Parisian life, highlighting changes in royal perception. Also notes Cold War era political tension and a 1946 election context surrounding postwar U.S. policy.
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Japan
Renzo Sawada
Hirohito
Sawada
Tokyo
Imperial Council of Education
Milado
Ama
Perry
England
France
Yokohama
Hirohita
London
Paris
Metro
Postwar farm policy push for full employment and credit reform
Washington report outlines farm groups backing Murray full employment bill and Aiken food stamp plan to raise rural purchasing power. It notes farm credit consolidation into a single independent agency and calls for peacetime wage and price balance to sustain agricultural income. The American Farm Bureau Federation plans a Chicago meeting to shape policy.
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Farmers Union
Aiken
Aitken
LaFollette
Wis
Ebner Thomas
Okly
Agricultural Committee
Murray
Montana
Vermont
Wisconsin
Pepper
Pia
Fpatmen
Texas
House
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chicago
Congress
The
Farm Bureau
Space Saver Closet Door Racks Demonstrated
The article promotes three inch deep space saver racks for closet doors with front supports and a lower rack with a hanger rod. Suited for small and large items and even children's toys, the design can be cut from plywood scraps using a compass saw. Pattern 283 includes cutting guides and assembly directions, with 15 cents requested.
Plane Finds Exact Position of North Magnetic Pole
The British Aries conducted two flights over the Boothia peninsula region in Canada from May 19 to 26, 1945. Instruments placed the North Magnetic Pole about 250 miles north-northwest of long standing charted positions, still roughly 1,200 miles from the geographic North Pole.
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North Magnetic Pole
Aries
Locasion
Boothia Peninsula
Canada
Collier's
North Pole
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Time
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Anderson
War Food
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Ruth Wyeth Spears
Edford Hills
New York
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Soretone
McMexaun & Rots
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Ea Bee
Daver
Syston
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