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The wars & local soldiers, 1950

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Australia's interesting visitor War before Red rule for Bertrand Russell

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Thurs.--Bertrand Russell, who is to make a lecture tour of Australia…

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Red Europe Listens to the B.B.C. Moscow takes knock in air "cold war"

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 8

LONDON Thurs.--Britain is winning the cold war in the air over Europe…

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Soldier Settlers Urged To Plan Farms Soundly For Irrigation

The Land · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 25

THE first thing soldier settlers should do on their 500acre Jemalong or Cadow farms, intended for dairying, was to pay particular attention to the lay-out for irrigation…

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Minister's Warning to Soldier Settlers On Lease Transfers Must First Consult Dept. of Lands

The Land · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 15

THE Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) yesterday warned ex-servicemen that there were definite restrictions on the outright transfer of Closer Settlement Leases allotted under the War Service…

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Record Soldier Settler Payments

The Land · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 13

SOLDIER settlers in N.S.W. have broken the previous month's record repayment of their advances by over £30,000…

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Irrigation Farms For Soldiers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 4

HOLDINGS for about 175 ex-Servicemen would be provided on the soldier settlement Irrigation project…

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Record Repayments Of Advances By Soldier Settlers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 7

SOLDIER settlers in January broke the previous month's record repayment of their advances by over £30,000 according to the N.S.W…

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Dutch Soldiers to Settle in Australia

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 4

These four young former Dutch Army men were discharged in Djakarta yesterday and today…

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The Inevitability of War

The Methodist · Saturday 25 February 1950 · page 9

Sir,—May I, in a few lines, reply to Mr. W. F. Dyer's letter of February 4 under the above heading, first requesting him to more…

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Atom weapons in war 'inevitable'

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1950 · page 2

OTTAWA, Fri. (A.A.P.).--In a long war the use of atomic weapons would probably be inevitable, General A. B. L. McNaughton said today…

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120 Japs to be tried for war crimes 17 Cases Involved

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 February 1950 · page 9

CANBERRA, Fri.--One hundred and twenty Japanese suspected war criminals will stand trial at Manus Island soon…

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U.S. Had Post-War High In Major Crime In 1949

Truth · Sunday 26 February 1950 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Saturday.—Major crimes were committed every 18 seconds in the U.S. during 1949, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Mr. Edgar Hoover) reported today…

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The Grand Alliance The third volume of the war memoirs of... Winston Churchill

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 26 February 1950 · page 23

HITLER'S invasion of Russia altered the values and…

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Four wounded in nightclub battle

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sun. (A.A.P.).--Four people were wounded in a gunfight between drug- crazed gunmen and police in a New York nightclub last night…

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Civil War Links

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 14

DES MOINES (Iowa). -- Iowa's last Civil War veteran has answered the final roll call hut the adjutant general's office…

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Civil War Links

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 14

DES MOINES (Iowa). -- Iowa's last Civil War veteran has answered the final roll call but the adjutant general's office…

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Conference Plan for War Widows

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- N.S.W. delegates to the Federal conference of the Australian Legion of Ex-…

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War Child 'Doing Fine' in U.s

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 4

Geoffrey Joiner, half-caste Negro boy who flew last year from Dalwood Homes, Sydney, to his…

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George Hart talks about films War film is one of the best

The Sun · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 15

Battleground (St. James) is one of the best war films to come out of Hollywood in recent…

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Legion's plea on soldier employment

The Sun · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Employment preference for ex-servicemen should be reviewed, Federal…

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