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The wars & local soldiers, 1950

844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 43

Disabled Soldiers' Plan Rest Centre

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 5

Newcastle Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers Association shortly will meet the Lord Mayor (Aid. H. D. Quintan) to discuss sites for the associations rest centre in the city…

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Letter Box Anzac March

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 6

"Veritas" was quite right in his comments about veterans being expected to march enmasse up the steep incline of…

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Cold War' Handicaps US Budget

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Tuea. (A.A.P.): Mr. Edwin Nourse said today that unless the United States…

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U.S. General Expects War With Soviet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, May 2. A.A.P.—General George Kenney, wartime chief of the Allied air forces in the Pacific, said yesterday he believed…

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Girl Receives Mother's War Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 3

LONDON, May 3. A.A.P.—Tania, the seven-year-old daughter of a British woman intelligence agent, who was shot by the Germans…

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Difficult To Stop War: U.S. Expert Says In Book

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 15

NEW YORK, Wed. (O.S.R.): Mr. John Foster Dulles, in his just-published book, War or Peace, takes a sombre view of the chances of preventing the West-East cold war becoming…

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Organisation "Buying Up War Weapons"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday.—High ranking military officers and prominent graziers were buying up obsolete military equipment and…

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"United States Must Win Cold War," Says President Truman

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): President Truman said today that the U.S. should use "every means at its command" to win the cold war. Mr. Truman said that the Marshall Plan was one of the…

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Easier Anzac March

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 4

This sketch, suggesting a change in the order of the Anzac Day march to avoid the climb up Watt-street hill is sponsored…

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War Danger Less, Says Truman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 6

WASHINGTON, May 5. A.A.P.—The international situation now was not early so bad as it was in the first half of 1946, President Trumann said. He was asked to comment…

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Thailand To Pay Allied War Claims

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 3

SINGAPORE, May 5. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The Thailand Government has officially informed the United Kingdom, Australia and India of…

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Pioneers of War Neurosis Test

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 3

The Legion of Ex-Servicemen's social service bureau had pioneered the use in New South Wales of a Swiss diagnostic test in assisting…

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World War If U.S. "Fails Allies"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 4

GALESBURG (Illinois), Mon (A.A. P.): Decisions made by the U.S. in the months ahead would determine whether there would be a third war, President Truman said today. There would be a third world…

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Trygve Lie Warns: Time Has Come to End Cold War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 3

GENEVA. May 8. A.A.P.—The time had come to end the cold war, said the Secretary General of the United Nations (Mr. Trygve Lie), who is on his way to Moscow…

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Feminine Touch to War

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 2

The American Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association suggests that women in the armed forces should be allowed to…

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Ex-Soldiers To Help Receive General

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 6

The Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) has invited Newcastle ex-servicemen's organisations to send representatives to a civic reception for…

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Disabled Soldiers Seek Hut Site

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 4

Newcastle City Council last night referred to the Works Committee for report a request by the Newcastle sub-branch of the Totally and…

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[?] Cold War Expected From Big Three

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): A grand western strategy for fighting the cold war on a long-term world basis is expected to emerge from the meeting of Big Three Foreign Ministers commencing today…

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War Brides to Charter Plane to Visit Australia

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 9

LOS ANGELES, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Taking their cue from the recent chartered flight of British war brides for a visit to England, two Australian war brides are rounding up fellow countrywomen for a trip home…

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War Was Respite For Popski

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1950 · page 5

POPSKI'S Private Army, the smallest independent unit operating in the Desert campaign in World War 2,…

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