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The wars & local soldiers, 1955

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This Is the Shape of Things to Come Atomic war plans change army tactics

The World's News · Saturday 15 January 1955 · page 3

DRASTIC new SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe) atomic military recommendations will have far-reaching…

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World's energy sources will be future war prizes World populations are outgrowing existing power resources and it will be a fight for survival

The World's News · Saturday 15 January 1955 · page 4

CHANCELLOR of an American science university predicts that nations will clash in war, not for food or trade as formerly, but to…

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SCIENCE "Ray gun" could eliminate automic war It's only an artist's dream, so far, but scientists are trying to make it a reality

The World's News · Saturday 15 January 1955 · page 13

T'HE scores of scientists all over the world studying cosmic rays — and a lot of other sort of rays —aren't just doing it for fun…

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King's School War Memorial Fund

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 1

The King's School War Memorial Fund has opened its fifth appeal. The committee expects a…

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The Cold War blows hot on our children

Tribune · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 8

IN March, 1952, a New York Telegram and Sun reporter was interviewing a young woman and her husband in a…

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New Aids For War On Weed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1955 · page 36

Mr. E. Waring, a departmental agronomist stationed at Murwillumbah, said last week…

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Decision On Soldier Farms

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1955 · page 4

LISMORE: A decision by the State government to acquire as many good properties…

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World's News In January 15 issue World's News told of the Shape of Things to Come in future atomic wars. In this week's article' Dr. Arnold Toynbee, distinguished British historian, Director of Studies of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, declares that... A third World War is "extremely unlikely"

The World's News · Saturday 22 January 1955 · page 3

TWO new factors in warfare make a Third World War extremely unlikely—barring some unfortunate accident. Dr. Arnold Toynbee told…

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Just briefly. War Budget

Tribune · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 4

NEW YORK: Sixty-five per cent of the new US Budget is allocated for war purposes, including military "aid" for other countries…

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Us-chiang War Plot Proved

Tribune · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 4

PEKING: Secret clauses in the Treaty signed by the US and Chiang Kai-shek explode the myth that this is a…

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Atomic war threat seen in German rearmament

Tribune · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 4

PARIS: Presiding at the recent opening of the new session of the French Assembly, veteran Communist Marcel Cochin warned that German rearmament would end in an…

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World War Danger in Formosa Situation Australians must keep out

Tribune · Wednesday 26 January 1955 · page 1

Mr. R .A. King, MLC, Secretary of the NSW Labor Council, yesterday told Tribune that "the elements of world war are involved in the present Formosan situation"…

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Memorial Lamp Dedicated World War Dead Remembered

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 28 January 1955 · page 1

A gathering of very close relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Israel Green attended the Yahrzeit for…

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Blocks For Soldiers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 January 1955 · page 38

Four ex-servicemen have been settled under the war service land settlement scheme on…

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Soldiers' Land Ballot Result

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 January 1955 · page 38

The result of a soldier settlement ballot at Coonabarabran has been announced…

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Israeli Soldier Killed

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 28 January 1955 · page 8

Jerusalem.—An Israeli soldier was killed and four wounded during last weekend’s incidents involving…

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MEDICINE Old age group in search of youth Scientists enlist men from 70 to 91 in test of hormones

The World's News · Saturday 29 January 1955 · page 14

A GROUP of aged men in a Massachusetts (USA) eventide home are helping a research team to look for the fountain of youth…

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Seamen's warning on Malaya war

Tribune · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 3

MELBOURNE: More than 600 seamen, at their monthly stop-work meeting in Melbourne last week, unanimously declared that proposals to send Australian troops to Malaya were "diametrically opposed to our own country's best…

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Aussies Do Not Back U.S. WAR Union tells Menzies Govt to keep out

Tribune · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 1

The resolution submitted by the Soviet Union to the United Nations Security Council on the Formosan crisis conforms with the real aspirations of the Australian people. THIS is made clear by job, union…

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Personality a veteran "general" Boer War and World War Digger fights battles over again with paper battalions

The World's News · Saturday 5 February 1955 · page 7

A STALWART Australian Imperial Force and Boer War veteran now living in Brisbane (Queensland) commands Australia's biggest and…

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