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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

3,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 163

Russia Not Yet Prepared for War Authority Point To European Peril Significant Coup in Czechoslovakia

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.-- "Russia cannot wage a major war now-- and she knows it" declared the president of Denmark's Foreign Affairs Committee (Mr. K. Bogholm) yesterday…

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"Antagonistic To Citizen Soldiers"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 3

Interviewed in Sydney last night, General Bennett said it was quite obvious that General Percival, along with a small…

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Suicide After War Service

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 3

A young engineer who committed suicide on. February 21 had returned from military service in…

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Suicide After War Service

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 3

A young engineer who committed suicide on February 21 had returned from military service in…

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Suicide After War Service

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 3

A young engineer who committed suicide on February 21 had returned from military service in…

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Suicide After War Service

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 3

A young engineer who committed suicide on February 21 had returned from military service in…

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Fears of War in India

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 3

KARACHI, Wednesday. --It is feared in diplomatic circles in Karachi that India will reject any United…

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Warning Over War Payment Applications

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 3

A Department of Postwar Reconstruction spokesman said today that many applications for war…

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Tojo to Blame for War U.S. Charge At Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 2

TOKIO, Tuesday.--Tojo, Japanese war leader, was the "bedfellow of the German crowd of lawbreakers and murderers," Mr. Rowland W. Fixel…

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Prime Minister Explains Geneva Tariff Concessions Britain's War Position was Desperate Future Wrapped Up in the World Economic Problems

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 4

In defending the concessions recently negotiated at Genera, the Prime Minister, in the Mousse of Representatives last week, said that the concessions were almost…

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Stop Press Czech Soldiers Charged

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 March 1948 · page 12

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Many officers and men of the Czechoslo-vakian Army are to be charged with "milltary insurrection," says a…

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Pope's Warning On Atom War Urges Peacefu Aim Bn Using Nuclear Power

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 4 March 1948 · page 1

VATICAN CITY. —Before an audience of international scientists, His Holiness the Pope recently discussed a problem of outstanding importance —the challenge of…

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Woman wounded by shotgun

The Sun · Friday 5 March 1948 · page 2

Mrs. Evelyn Mitchell, 25, was shot in the leg last night when a shotgun which her husband was examining was…

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Caring For War Orphans

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 March 1948 · page 1

LEGACY ranks high amongst the voluntary organisations working in the interests of the less fortunate members of the…

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Attack On Falsfein's War Record

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 March 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday. -- Mr. Falstein (Lab., N.S.W.) had used his Parliamentary membership to evade…

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Return Of Pre-War Outlook

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 5 March 1948 · page 9

The community was shocked two weeks ago by the reported release in the British zone of Germany of over seven thousand…

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Attack On Falstein's War Record

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 March 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday. -- Mr. Falstein (Lab., N.S.W.) had used his Parliamentary membership to evade…

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Freshers To Be Told Of War And Sex

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 March 1948 · page 3

Discussions on sex, Communism, and whether a third world war is inevitable are part of the "Orientation…

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Soviet "Threat to Peace" Lords Warn Of New War Danger

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).--Speeches in the Lords last night reflected anxiety that Russian policy in Europe was endangering peace…

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Irrigible Lands and Soldier Settlement

The Land · Friday 5 March 1948 · page 2

No. 1 Closer Settlement Advisory Board, with Commonwealth officers, recently inspected a number of properties in the Berriquin Irrigation…

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