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The wars & local soldiers, 1948

3,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 163

Interest in War Service Homes

Construction · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 4

In the House of Representatives recently, the member for Swan, W.A. (Mr. L. W. Hamilton) said that during the debate on the War Service Homes Bill he had referred to the high rate of…

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War Danger If No Trade Pact

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (A.A.P.).—The Australian Minister for Post-war Reconstruction, Mr. Dedman, told a…

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War Not Likely Says Chifley Research a Safeguard

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 3

The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) scouts the suggestion that another war is likely to occur soon…

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33 Per Cent. Retail Price Rise Since Before War

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 4

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--Retail prices had risen 33 per cent. since before the war, the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. Roland Wilson) said today…

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Sydney Diary Terai was a decent Jap: Soldier students: Television still distant: Building booklets

The Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 9

JUST back from the BCOF circuit, where he played in "Hasty Heart" and "While the Sun Shines." is Sydney actor John…

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Brave But Irascible Soldier Paid for His Cruelties with His Life

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 7

IT is a curious fact that some of the most, admirable leaders of men in war have proved to be the most detestable rulers in peace. Australia has its own historic instance of it in the case of the courageous and able sailor, Bligh, who, as governor, proved himself to be an autocrat and a tyrannical martinet. A short…

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Brave But Irascible Soldier Paid for His Cruelties with His Life

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 7

IT is a curious that some or the most admirable leaders of men in war have proved to be the most detestable rulers in peace. Australia has its own historic instance of it in the case of the courageous and able sailor, Bligh, who, as governor, proved himself to be an autocrat and a tyrannical martinet. A short…

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Brave But Irascible Soldier Paid for His Cruelties with His Life

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 7

IT is a curious fact that some or the most admirable leaders of men in war have proved to be the most detestable rulers in peace. Australia has its own historic instance of it in the case of the courageous and able sailor, Bligh, who, as governor, proved himself to be an autocrat and a tyrannical martinet. A short…

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Brave But Irascible Soldier Paid for His Cruelties with His Life

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 7

IT is a curious fact that some of the most admirable leaders of men in war have proved to be the most detestable rulers in peace. Australia has its own historic instance of it in the case of the courageous and able sailor, Bligh, who, as governor, proved himself to be an autocrat and a tyrannical martinet. A short…

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Brave But Irascible Soldier Paid for His Cruelties with His Life

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 7

IT is a curious fact that some of the most admirable leaders of men in war have proved to be the most detestable rulers in peace. Australia has its own historic instance of it in the case of the courageous and able sailor, Bligh, who, as governor, proved himself to be an autocrat and a tyrannical martinet. A short…

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Brave But Irascible Soldier Paid for His Cruelties with His Life

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 7

IT is a curious fact that some of the most admirable leaders of men in war have proved to be the most detestable rulers in peace. Australia has its own historic, instance of it m the case of the courageous and able sailor, Bligh, who, as governor, proved himself to be an autocrat and a tyrannical martinet. A short…

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Brave But Irascible Soldier Paid for His Cruelties with His Life

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 7

If is a curious fact that some of the most admirable leaders of men in war have proved to be the most detestable rulers in peace. Australia has its own historic instance of it in the case of the courageous and able sailor, Bligh, who, as governor, proved himself to be an autocrat and a tyrannical martinet. A short…

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War Indemnity

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 11

In Sydney last night Mr. Mather said that Australia should have received a great deal of Japanese textile…

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U.S. Blamed For War With Japan

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 3

CHICAGO, Wednesday. -- The United States deliberately provoked war with Japan to draw a declaration of war from Germany, Colonel Robert McCormick claims…

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Soldier Takes III in Shop

Nepean Times · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 4

David Bennett, of Wiley Park, a soldier of the last war, who has been in hospital, took ill in a shop in High Street on Tuesday and was taken to,…

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Jewish Plane Flies to Negev to Rescue Wounded

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 6

JERUSALEM, Dec. 17th, (Palcor Agency). A specially chartered plane under the auspices of the Red Magen David, flew today from Tel…

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Execution Of War Criminal

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 3

HONGKONG, Thursday. --Rear-Admiral Maomasi Sakonju, of the Japanese Navy, was hanged today in…

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Australian War Bride And Japanese Suicide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 3

TOKYO, Jan. 22 (A.A.P.Reuter).—The Australian wife of an American sergeant committed suicide by poison…

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Turkey Forbids Citizens to participate in “Holy War”

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 5

JERUSALEM, Dec. 11th. (JTA). Reports received here from Ankara reveal that the Turkish Government has rejected all applications…

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When John McCallum Was The Star of A War-time Concert in Cowra

The Land · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 4

I MUST put it down before I forget it, and every time I see his name the memory is getting thinner…

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