Moscow Conference Shapes Postwar World Unity
The Big Three ministers closed a cordial meeting in Moscow discussing atomic energy control within the UN security council framework plus Canada. They agreed on a five year Korea trusteeship and joint four power occupation of Japan, with MacArthur as supreme commander but limited powers. A cautious optimism prevails about genuine unity or possible imitation.
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Byrnes
Security Council
United Nations Organization
Canada
Korea
Japan
Russia
China
Britain
United States
MacArthur
Uncle Billy
Truman to Deliver Nation Report After Holidays
President Truman will present his report to the nation soon after the holidays. The address is expected to explain questions for Congress and reveal whether he acts as a prudent administrator or a political executive. The public will assess his honesty and resolve amid reported strain with Congress.
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Truman
Congress
Politics Corrupts Art By Paul Mallon Silent voice against misery of common people in liberal critique
A German artist dies at 78 in a European mountain town. The piece argues politics taints art, praising Eakins, Homer, Wood and other nonpolitical painters while condemning art driven by propaganda. It laments modern critics and presses the view that freedom of expression is eroded by politics.
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Paul Mallon
Europe
Mr. Roosevelt
France
Millet
Renoir
Eakins
Philadelphia
Winslow Homer
Grant Wood
Hopper
Burchfield
Bohrod
Speicher
Lucioni
Mattson
Chapin
James
N. C. Wyeth
King Features Syndicate
Young Bride Ponders Marketing After Cooking School
The item notes a young bride asking her mother if gravy comes from the butcher or the grocer, illustrating a lighthearted exchange tagged as Watch word and reflecting domestic concerns of the era.
Phil Murray rejects additional fact finding board
CIO official Phil Murray states no need for another fact finding board. The Milwaukee Journal notes his stance reflects his firm view that no new facts are lost or needed in the inquiry.
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CIO
Phil Murray
Phil
H. V. Wade
Milwaukee Journal
Dreamhouse Remains High Price Delayed For Postwar Couples
The postwar dream home, prized by many young couples, still sits beyond reach on costly stilts with no pricing steps to reach it. The commentary notes the gap between desire and affordability as prices remain prohibitive for builders and buyers alike.
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Christian Science Monitor
Spelvin In Fighting Mood By Westbrook Pegler
Westbrook Pegler argues George Spelvin, an American, resists forced union membership under Roosevelt era policy. He critiques government and unions, warns against private associations wielding state power, and warns such control could resemble fascist or communist labor systems. The piece condemns coerced dues and collective bargaining beyond government oversight.
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Westbrook Pegler
New York
Truman
General Motors
Unions
CIO
George Spelvin
Roosevelt
Spelvin
Henry Wallace
Citizen Spelvin
Union
King Features Syndicate
Looking Into The Crystal Ball By Bugs Baer 1945
Arthur Baer notes the era of many treaties and fragile peace, warning that treaties rarely satisfy losers. He recalls a 1922 epigraph on war and peace, mocks prophetic claims, and cites the atomic bomb as a persuasive mediator shaping climate and policy. He offers tempered optimism for the coming year 1945.
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Arthur “Bugs” Baer
King Features
MacArthur and Shinto Honor in Ancestral Faith
The piece argues Shinto cannot be eradicated by military action or ideology. It compares ancestor worship to Jewish and Christian reverence, notes Shinto’s link to emperor worship, and defends moral law as essential to human dignity. It asserts ancestors endure beyond conquest and laments science era attitudes toward the old ways.
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General MacArthur
Japan
Karl Mark
MacArthur
Marx
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Israel
China
Sokolsky
Soviet Russia
Konoye
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Lumber mixups and shortages hit homefront notes
A Washington dispatch recalls wartime supply quirks as lumber shipped to the Philippines was inexplicably redirected and later found back in New Orleans. The piece also notes pepper shortages and a humorous anecdote about Gabe Murphy supplying hot bricks to warm Mrs Trohan.
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Philippines
Army
Civilian Production Administration
Seattle
New Orleans
Gabe Murphy
Georgetown
Walter Trohan
Washington
Mr. Murphy
Washington Scene 8 confetti of notes and jokes from wartime DC
The column blends weather, gossip, and wartime whimsy from Washington. It notes slushy streets, predicts a surge of congressional sneezing, and mocks a Tokyo dispatch about Japan’s privy seal. It also reports on actor Carl Brisson sending food to Denmark and explains nylon stock ing shortages due to military priority for WAVEs and WACs.
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Carl Brisson
Denmark
Rosalind Russell
Stars and Stripes
Tokyo
Japan
M.M
Civilian Production Administration
Dames
Bean soup fire suppression at sea saves sailors
A Ships Magazine report describes a five gallon can solution labeled bean soup made from soybeans and chemicals. A nozzle converts the liquid into a whipped foam that clings to surfaces and smothers flames within seconds. After firefighting, the foam dries and blows away with water.
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Ships Magazine
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Shinto
OPA
India
Marin
Washington Scene
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