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The wars & local soldiers, 1946

6,874 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

Peace Seeker Arabian King Against War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 5

CAIRO, Tuesday.--Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, is reported to have declared yesterday that he wants to be…

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Letters to the Editor Peace or War?

Tribune · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 6

A RECENT Sydney Morning Herald editorial posed the question: “Peace or War in Industry?” A few columns away was a cartoon…

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War Trials in Borneo "Collaboration" Not Always Crime

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 3

Many Asiatic collaborators [?] North Borneo who feared reprisals when the Allies returned have been surprised at the attitude of the…

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British Cameras for £3 Post-War Product Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 14.—The first post-war British cameras are now being marketed for £3. They [?]val, in efficiency and neatness, the…

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Donitz On Spot At Nuremberg U-Boats In Atlantic On War Eve

The Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 6

NUREMBERG, Tuesday.--Huge charts produced at the Nuremberg trials yesterday showed…

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Film New Yorkers Will Not S[?] Film Board Plans To Hel[?] That Post-war Hangover

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 10

AFTER celebrating V-P Day the world woke up with a fine hangover. A state of emergency was…

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Pole Soldiers Defy Emigres, Go Home

Tribune · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 2

WARSAW.—First detachments of the Polish Army, which fought with the Allies in the West, have returned to Poland from France…

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ACTU Industrial Conciliation Plan Denial Of Preference To Soldiers

The Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 2

Preference to returned soldiers, provided for in the Re-establishment and Employment Act, is denied…

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Tells of Imprisoned Soldiers Rend Night

The Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--For the seventh consecutive night, military defaulters in Auckland gaol kept the neighborhood awake with yells, cooees, songs and cat-calls…

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Soldiers Desperate for Homes

The Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 3

"Many men being discharged from the Forces Are in dire straits because of the housing shortage,"…

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Few Trucks for Ex-soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 11

Rehabilitation of many ex-servicemen was being held up because they could not buy motor trucks, R.S.L officials said last…

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And Plan for Soldiers' Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 11

CANBERRA, Monday.--The Commonwealth will ask the States at the Premiers' Conference next week to co-operate in finding reasonably priced land for servicemen's homes and…

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Family Fight for Soldier's Life

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 7

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- The U.S. soldier who has been sentenced to death at Osaka, Japan, for the premeditated…

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Guildford Comforts Fund. Welcome Home Dance

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

Guildford Comforts Fund will hold its monthly welcome home dance on Saturday night next (see advt). Members of the Services who have been receiving…

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Memorial to War Nurses

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 2

The gallant and heroic deeds of Australian war nurses who gave their lives on active service are to be commemorated by a Memorial to be established in…

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No Longer Used For War

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 7

CENTRE of attraction in the swimming pool at the Kip's Bay Boys' Club, near New York, is the huge, inflated…

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No Longer Used For War

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 7

CENTRE of attraction in the swimming pool at the Kip's Bay Boys' Club, near New York, is the huge, inflated…

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No Longer Used For War

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 7

CENTRE of attraction in the swimming pool at the Kips Bay Boys' Club,near New York, is the huge, inflated…

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Department of Post-war Reconstruction

Construction · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 15

The Department of Post War Reconstruction has vacated premises at 18 Martin Place (E.S, [?] A. Bank Building), which they formerly occupied, and are now located at Phillip House, 119 Phillip…

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Movie Stars Shy of War Publicity

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 14

HOLLYWOOD, Wednesday.--Screen heroes returning from the wars have not been anxious to publicise their service at the front, but DougSas Fairbanks, Jr., has gone to further…

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