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The wars & local soldiers, 1951

4,891 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 245

21 Nazi War Criminals to Miss Gallows Death

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 11

FRANKFURT, Thursday.--Twenty-one German war criminals were spared death on the gallows yesterday when their death sentences were commuted to prison terms by the American High Commissioner (Mr. McCloy) and the U.S. Commander-in-Chief (Gen. Handy). Seven other…

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21 Nazi War Criminals to Miss Gallows Death

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 11

FRANKFURT, Thursday.--Twenty-one German war criminals were spared death on the gallows yesterday when their death sentences were commuted to prison terms by the American High Commissioner (Mr. McCloy) and the U.S. Commander-in-Chief (Gen. Handy)…

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21 Nazi War Criminals to Miss Gallows Death

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 11

FRANKFURT, Thursday.--Twenty-one German war criminals were spared death on the gallows yesterday when their death sentences were commuted to prison terms by the American High Commissioner (Mr. McCloy) and the U.S. Commander-in-chief (Gen. Handy). Seven other…

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21 Nazi War Criminals to Miss Gallows Death

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 11

FRANKFURT, Thursday.--Twenty-one German war criminals were spared death on the gallows yesterday when their death sentences were commuted to prison terms by the American High Commissioner (Mr. McCloy) and the U.S. Commander-in-Chief (Gen, Handy). Seven other…

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21 Nazi War Criminals to Miss Gallow's Death

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 11

FRANKFURT, Thursday.--Twenty-one German war criminals were spared death on the gallows yesterday when their death sentences were commuted to prison terms by the American High Commissioner (Mr. McCloy) and the U.S. Commander-in-Chief (Gen. Handy). Seven other…

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Shortage Of Beds, Money, Staff For War On Polio

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 2

By A STAFF CORRESPONDENT Doctors fighting the poliomyelitis epidemic in New South Wales are faced with…

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Social Services get KO in Truman’s Colossal war budget

Tribune · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 5

WASHINGTON.—Less than 2.5 per cent of the Huge Truman war budget is devoted to national health services, social insurance and pensions of all kinds. SIXTY-NINE per cent of the…

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21 Nazi War Criminals To Escape Gallows Americans Free Munitions Chief

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 4

FRANKFURT, Thursday.--Twenty-one German war criminals were spared death on the gallows yesterday when their death sentences were commuted…

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21 Nazi War Criminal To Escape Gallows Americans Free Munitions Chief

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 4

FRANKFURT, Thursday.--Twentyone German war criminals were spared death on the gallows yesterday when their death sentences were commuted…

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Give Millions To Flood Sufferers Instead Of War Wharfies’ Leader Nelson Says

Tribune · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 6

Sydney wharfies’ secretary Tom Nelson this week urged trade unions to immediately demand relief for NSW flood victims to the extent of at least £10 million to be taken from the Federal Government’s £142…

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My plan for peace--No. 3 A 'show-down' won't prevent war

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 8

IN studying the way that wars break out I have come to see that the best hope of…

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Dulles Wants To Drag You To War Why American Warmonger Is Coming Here

Tribune · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 2

John Foster Dulles, travelling organiser of American war plans, is to visit Australia soon to try and speed up Menzies' plans to conscript Australian youth and smash the militant unions…

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Soldier's Death. Unusual Circumstances

The Propeller · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 1

Sergeant William Bagley Smith, aged 34 years, stationed at Ingleburn Military Camp, formerly of Cheshire, England, collapsed and…

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If War Should Come

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 8

PART I. NEW YORK (Zins)—The reference in the title is not of course to localised warfare such as that in Korea, but to the growing probability of a…

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War May Stop at Frontier

The Sun · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Thursday. -- Seeking a quick end to the Korean war, the US would consider bathing at the 38th Parallel if Communist China accepted UNO's…

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48 New War Service Farms Soon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 12

The State Cabinet yesterday aproved the acquisition of 11 country properties for subdivision as War Service Land…

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Barrage At Carrier With War Supplies

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 6

SAIGON, Friday. --Under Vietminh mortar fire the United States aircraft carrier Wyndham Bay yesterday delivered 44 Bearcat fighters and other war materials for the…

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Barrage At Carrie With War Supplie

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 6

SAIGON, Friday. --Under Vietminh motar fire the United States aircraft carrier Wyndharn Bay yesterday delivered 44 Bearcat fighters and other war materials for…

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Holiday Home For Disabled War Veterans

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 14

THE Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association (N.S.W. branch), will shortly open its holiday…

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War on Rabbits to "Begin in Earnest"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 11

The rabbit war in New South Wales was about to begin in earnest, said the chairman of the rabbit destruction authority, Mr. W. J. Smith, in Sydney yesterday. How far, and how quickly,…

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