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The wars & local soldiers, 1953

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Demand for China Blockade "We Are At War," Says Taft

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.P.).-- Demands are growing in the United States for an all-out blockade of Red China…

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Demand for China Blockade ''We Are At War,'' Says Taft

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.P.).--Demands are growing in the United States for an all-out blockade, of Re China…

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Demand For Red China Blockade "War Is On"--taft British Fears Of U.S. Moves

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.P.) --Demands are growing in the United States for an all-out blockade of Red China. But British public opinion, as…

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Demand For Red China Blockade War On, Says Taft British Fears Of U.S. Moves

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.P.) --Demands are growing in the United States for on all-out blockade of Red China…

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Relatives Barred From Greeting Korean Wounded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 1

Seventeen wounded Australians from Korea—seven of them stretcher cases—arrived at Mascot airport last night, but Army authorities stopped…

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"Act of war" if tanker bombed

The Sun · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Monday.--It would be act of war to bomb a Finnish tanker now reported carrying a cargo of aviation fuel to communist China, US senators were warned today…

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Soldiers Repair Sea Wall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 3

Royal Engineers repairing one of the many breaks in the sea wall at Canvey bland, Essex, last week. The low-lying land was flooded extensively when gale-driven seas broke down the sea wall a few days earlier…

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Soldier on Charge of Bigamy

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 5

When Stanley James Elder (26), soldier, appeared at Redfern Court today on a charge of…

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Soldier on Charge of Bigamy

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 3

When Stanley James Elder (26), soldier, appeared at Redfern Court today on a charge of…

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Soldier on Charge of Bigamy

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 5

When Stanley James Elder (26), soldier, appeared at Redfern Court today on a charge of…

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Soldier on Charge of Bigamy

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 5

When Stanley James Elder (26), soldier, appeared at Redfern Court today on a charge of…

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Japan's War Plans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 2

Sir,—Major-General Kirby British war historian, in a recent broadcast address, said that records inspected by him…

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Defeat the war crazed American aggressors! EDITORIAL

Tribune · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 1

President Eisenhower has announced the intention of the American imperialists to extend aggression against the peoples of Asia and the world. The island of Formosa, part of the territory of China, has been occupied by American armed forces since June, 1950, when Truman issued his order which meant American seizure…

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Eisenhower, Breaker of Heads and Treaties Used army to bludgeon the war veterans

Tribune · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 5

LIKE every aggressor in world history , the USA of the Wall Street multi-millionaires means to pave its path to world…

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Capuchin Friar Gave To Aid Wounded Communist

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 7

ROME.—A wounded young communist worker is reported improving following a transfusion in which a Capuchin friar gave him blood. The young Red is Angelo Ferrari, who was shot by police in a scuffle…

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Japan's War Plans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 2

Sir,—Mr. R. W. Robson quotes ("Herald," Feb. 11) what a Japanese General said to our prisoners and his troops…

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Defence Of War Book's Charges

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 9

LONDON, Thurs. (Extel.).--Mr. William Kimber, publisher of the book "London Calling North Pole." has defended its charges. The book is by H. J…

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War Goods Slow-down Brakes On U.S. Plans

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 15

WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.P.). -- The Secretary of Defence (Mr. Charles E…

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War Goods Slow-down Brakes On U.S. Plans

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 15

WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.P.). -- The Secretary of Defence (Mr. Charles E…

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War Goods Slow-down Brakes On U.S. Plans

Daily Mirror · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 15

WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.P.). -- The Secretary of Defence (Mr. Charles E…

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