Canadians vote as Liberal victory hints at shift in power
An Excellent Start warns that Canada’s Liberal win may foreshadow Britain’s Churchill return. The piece contrasts Canadian Socialists with British Labour, denounces socialistic entitlements, and defends free enterprise while laments heavy wartime debt and state controls. It urges Britain to follow Canada and elect Churchill for postwar stability.
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Great Britain
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Canada
Roosevelt
Europe
San Francisco
Winston Churchill
Sixty Million Casualties by Sokolsky
A 1945 column argues Europe endured sixty million casualties, with 14 million dead and 5.5 million incapacitated, warning the war’s price defeats civilization. It questions who truly wins and urges universal peace through moral will and justice.
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George E. Sokolsky
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Sahara
Soviet Russia
Russia
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Kharkov
Britain
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India
United States
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Fair Play For Veterans In Truman Overhaul
The St Louis Post Dispatch argues the Veterans Administration should be the first subject of a Truman era overhaul. It cites excessive red tape poor medical service and low pay as core flaws. Separation of hospitals from other services is praised as a needed step toward profound renovation and reorganization.
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Veterans Administration
Washington
Jerry Kluttz
Washington Post
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Bells for sale spark questions on wartime rations
A Boston Herald item notes the Maritime Commission offers 20,000 surplus bells for sale to call hungry men to dinner and questions whether the OPA should cooperate to provide a worthy dinner.
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Maritime Commission
OPA
Ryan
Boston Herald
Signpost of Lidice and the poppies on the road to Berlin
An Associated Press note recalls Lidice’s destruction after Heydrich’s assassination. Nazis killed men, sent women and children to camps, and leveled 112 houses, leaving a signpost of poppies where the village stood. The Czech maps omit Lidice to keep its memory as warning for UN policy toward Germany.
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Czechoslovakia
Reinhardt Heydrich
Gestapo
Associated Press
Heydrich
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Germany
Berlin
New York Herald-Tribune
Roosevelt's $200000 loan to Elliott Roosevelt disclosed
Westbrook Pegler reports that Elliott Roosevelt obtained a $200000 loan on March 17 1942 from John Hartford head of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company using stock collateral. Hartford reportedly faced embarrassment over public knowledge of the loan and later wrote it off as uncollectable. The feature notes Roosevelt's connections to Warm Springs and questions why a bank was not used.
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New York
Elliott Roosevelt
John Hartford
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Hartford
Elliott
Texas
United States
Department of Justice
Roosevelt
Treasuries
Hartfords
Guaranty Trust Company
Am I A Psychologist by Bugs Baer
A satirical piece by Arthur B Baer mocks psychiatrists and psychology theories. It riffs on introversion communication mishaps and social quips, ending with a self deprecating line about being nuts. Copyright 1945 King Features.
Truman Signals Shift in Federal Judicial Appointments
In a quiet move President Truman appears to appoint judges on a party basis rather than New Deal ideology. Three first choices, including Daennis Donovan and Arthur A. Kosci n sk i, show party backing and clashes with Attorney General Biddle. Critics note resistance in Congress as Truman partly departs Roosevelt era practices.
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Truman
Biddle
Donald Gilliam
North Carolina
Gilliam
Bailey
Justice Department
White House
Minnesota
Bob Hannegan
Daennis Donovan
Duluth
Oliver Iron Mining Company
Hannegan
Roosevelt
Victor Anderson
Michigan
Arthur A. Koscinski
Detroit
Koscinski
CIO
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House Rules Committee
FEPC
King Features Syndicate
Washington Scene Smirks At White House Timing
Gemra Dixon reports on a Washington scene as President Truman uses dry humor to time his announcements. The piece notes staged shocks like resignations of Biddle Perkins Walker and Hines Bradley, with Symington later named as a notable appointment to watch.
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Washington
Truman
Missouri
Biddle
Labor
Perkins
Walker
Veterans’ Administration
Frank T. Hines
Big Storm Center
Omar Bradley
Ready and Willing to Catch Up on Cake
Little George asks for more cake than his older brother Richard. He explains he must catch up because Richard was eating cake three years before George was born. The scene features a patient mother listening to the siblings’ exchange.
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Richard
Christian Science Monitor
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