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The wars & local soldiers, 1955

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Protests to Government from workers . . . . War millions needed to stop floods

Tribune · Wednesday 9 March 1955 · page 2

From all over Australia protests have poured in to the Menzies-Fadden Government against its failure to give adequate flood relief, and against its policy of spending millions on war instead of on flood…

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A War Memorial for Six Million

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 11 March 1955 · page 2

MADAME TOUSSAUD’S Chamber of Horrors in London has been beaten by a Museum that is not staged…

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Doug Haas, War Victim, Fought to End War

Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 11

"DOUG HAAS, who suffered for 3 12 years as a prisoner of war under the Japanese, is a victim of war just as much as if he had died on the…

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Can't let the children be war victims

Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 12

TOWNSVILLE: "Women, who are so close to children, will work in grim earnest for peace when they see the lives of their children threatened by atomic war"... "Women must speak out, before it…

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MENZlE War Millions Must Be Diverted to End These Needless Flood Tragedies! Cut War Spending to Stop Floods...build Dams and Ban H-bombs... Sights of flood-swept Maitland are not those that children should see

Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 6

Yes, Tribune has said this hundreds of times before. Now we repeat it louder than ever. We repeat it at a time when people everywhere are taking up the demand. Menzies, enjoying himself on a luxury trip while the nation suffers its worst calamity, is spending £237 million a year on war…

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The Late Tom Latimer, Anzac

Nepean Times · Thursday 17 March 1955 · page 2

An original Anznc who had pence-time experience in Malaya and New Guinea was Mr. Thomns Johnston Latimer, who died…

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Stark Story Of Nerves Under Strain Of War

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 20

There has been a spate of novels of naval warfare in World War II so that Martin Dibner's The Deep Six comes as a somewhat belated arrival…

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Walgett Land For Soldiers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 16

Over 45,000 acres of Western Division grazing land near Walgett will be open for…

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More Land For Soldiers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 27

State cabinet recently approved expenditure of over £180,000 for additional land for soldier…

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Shire Council Provides Roads For Soldiers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 28

The Waugoola Shire Council is to pay the cost of road work on a soldier settler estate to…

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Land For Soldier Settlers: 'Just Terms' Wanted

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 3

The president of Graziers' Association, Mr. T. G. Canter, has appealed for "just terms" for land taken over for soldier settlement In his presidential…

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"Career Soldier" For Frankfurt Zoo

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1955 · page 19

MANNHEIM, Germany: Allan T. Geronimo, a "career soldier," who doesn't do much but eat, is about to be made a corporal and be retired from the U.S. Army…

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Aussies First in Yank A-war on Asia

Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1955 · page 1

CLOSELY following Menzies' shameful pledge of Australian lives as American cannon fodder,…

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Thorez corrects a viewpoint Not Civilisation, But Capitalism Would Perish in Hydrogen War

Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1955 · page 3

AN important statement warning against "exaggerations of the effect of atomic weapons is contained in a letter…

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Alp Outs Groupers Peace policy adopted No troops No H-bomb to Malaya war Recognition for China

Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1955 · page 1

At its Hobart Conference, the Labor Party took the first steps towards a genuinely Australian policy in foreign affairs…

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More Yalta Revelations on War Criminals

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 8

Washington. — Pre-Conference documents released with the Yalta papers by the Slate Department reveal…

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Where is Stalin's son? Since the execution of Beria, Vasily Stalin, son of the former Russian leader has disappeared. Even his sweetheart, daughter of war hero Timoshenko, doesn't know his whereabouts

The World's News · Saturday 26 March 1955 · page 6

IN north-eastern Siberia, between the Lena and Kolyma Rivers, lies a region called Kolyma. It is a land of living death where more than a…

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War Budgets and Living Standards

Tribune · Wednesday 30 March 1955 · page 10

An increase in armed forces, in military budgets and budgets to be used for the forces of repression constitute a constant threat to the workers' standard of living. THIS fact is proven over and over again in a special report…

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Reality of war in Malaya

Tribune · Wednesday 30 March 1955 · page 4

IMPERIALIST troops (one of them a Dyak headhunter from Borneo) make sport with…

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People unbeaten in 6 years war

Tribune · Wednesday 30 March 1955 · page 4

British official announcements pay tribute to the deadly efficiency of the patriot guerillas. FOR over six years now the British have had about 375,000…

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