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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

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Labor Proud of War Record Leaders Dare To Progress

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 25 September 1946 · page 1

Sydney, September 24.—Opposition leaders and spokesman had avoided discussion on the war years, the Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H. V. Evatt, said tonight. He was addressing an election rally with the Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, the…

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Danger of War Doesn't Exist Stalin On Present Position

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 25 September 1946 · page 1

London, September 24.—Moscow Radio has announced that Mr. Stalin, replying to questions from the London "Sunday Times" correspondent said he did not believe that there was a real danger of war. All such talk at the present came from…

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Barrier Miner Wednesday, September 25, 1946. Stalin Says No War Danger

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 September 1946 · page 3

WHILE it is felt in many influential quarters that it is the Moscow mood which is wiping out good will and that in…

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"No War Danger" Says Stalin World Reactions Favorable

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 26 September 1946 · page 1

London, September 25.—Marshal Stalin's statement that he does not believe there is a real danger of a new war has caused general relief and pleasure in London. It has also brought a wave of intense relief and satisfaction in Moscow, and…

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Civil War Threat In Greece

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 5

LONDON, September 26:— Greece is facing civil war and there could not be a worse welcome for a homing king than…

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Soldiers Killed In Truck Smash

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 8

SYDNEY.—When a military truck crashed into a tree at Walnangara, near Tenterfield, last night three soldiers were killed…

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Britain's P.M.G. Keeps Eye on Twenty Million Food Parcels by Post-war Increase

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 28 September 1946 · page 6

Twenty million parcels are now sent every year from Australia and New Zealand to the United Kingdom. Most of these are gift food parcels. Before…

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Soldiers Killed in Crash Many Others Injured

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 28 September 1946 · page 1

Sydney, September 27.—Three soldiers were killed and twelve injurued when a military truck in which they were travelling got out of control, and crashed into a tree at Wallangarra, a few miles from Tenterfield last night…

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Soldiers Sentenced for Mutiny

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 September 1946 · page 1

SINGAPORE, September 27. —Lieut.-General Montague Stopford; Commander-in-Chief of the Allied land forces in South East…

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Judgments on War Criminals Last Days Of Nuremberg Trials

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 30 September 1946 · page 1

Nuuemberg, September 29.—Exactly eight years after the signing of the Munich Agreement, Hitler's Lieutenants will hear judgment of the International Tribunal on their past, and the decision on their fate…

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Nazi War Criminals Await Sentences Judgment Of Lord Chief Justice

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 1 October 1946 · page 1

Nuremberg, September 30. — A cold grey mist cloaked Nuremberg prison when Goering and the other twenty defendants were awakened at 6 a.m. for judgment day. A small army of heavily reinforced white helmeted American military…

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12 Nazi War Leaders to Be Executed

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 October 1946 · page 7

NUREMBERG, October 1—.12 high-ranking Nazi ex-war leaders have been sentenced to death…

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Had Jap War Criminal's Pistol Youth Fined £401

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 2 October 1946 · page 1

Melbourne, October 1—A 19-year-old youth, who claimed to have served as a war correspondent in the Pacific islands, China and Japan, was fined £40…

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World Could Not Stand Another War Says Eisenhower

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 2 October 1946 · page 2

London, September 30—The hysterical pessimism" in certain quarters in USA was condemned by General Elsenhower at a Press conference in Berlin…

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Russia's Pacific Aims As Key To War Or Peace

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 October 1946 · page 5

WASHINGTON, October 1.—The key to war and peace is Russian aspirations in the Pacific, according to Representative Robert Sikes (Democrat, Florida). Mr. Sikes is one of the…

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General Eisenhower and War

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 3 October 1946 · page 1

London, October 2.—General Eisenhower is convinced that no major country wanted a global war or it would deliberately provoke one. He expressed this…

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Witness Says Cousens Tried To Save Life of Eight Prisoners of War

Barrier Miner · Thursday 3 October 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY.—Evidence that Major Charles Cousens had tried to save the lives of eight prisoners of war who were sentenced to death for escaping from Tavoy prison camp in Burma in 1942, was given at the Central…

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Nazi War Criminals Goering and Others Death Sentenced

Western Grazier · Friday 4 October 1946 · page 1

A: Nuremberg (Germany) on (October I the War Crimes Tribunal found Goering. Von Ribbontrop. Keltel, Rosenberg. jodi. and Von Neurath. guilty on all…

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Plans For The Continuance Of War Controls

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 October 1946 · page 3

CANBERRA.—First steps to decide which wartime economic controls are to be, continued in post-war legislation to replace the National Security Act, which expires on December 31, will be taken at an important…

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Fifty Killed in Korean Riots Many Wounded and Missing

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 7 October 1946 · page 1

Seoul (Korea), October 6.—Fifty-three Korean police were killed and twenty seriously wounded and 100 were reported missing as a result of clashes with rioting mobs at Taikyu, according to the latest figures issued by the United States Army…

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