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The wars & local soldiers, 1961

173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 9

World union conference on W. German war threat

Tribune · Wednesday 20 September 1961 · page 3

SYDNEY: Mr. E. V. Elliott, General Secretary of the Seamen's Union of Australia, left Sydney on Monday for Berlin, where he will attend, as an observer, the special international conference for a German peace treaty,…

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Women Urged to Act to End War Threat

Tribune · Wednesday 20 September 1961 · page 5

The Union of Australian Women has issued a circular calling on women to make their voice heard at the United Nations General Assembly, now in session. THE UAW suggests that…

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Distinguished Soldier Opens Memorial Hall

Nepean Times · Thursday 21 September 1961 · page 1

A £51,000 memorial to the ex-servicemen of St. Marys district was officially opened on Saturday by one of Australia's most distinguished soldiers, while 60 returned servicemen stood as a…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 September 1961 · page 11

Services: Fri., 6.30 p.m.; Sat., 9.30 a.m. Succoth: Sun. and Mon, 6 p.m…

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Acid Thrower's War on Dogs

The Biz · Wednesday 27 September 1961 · page 1

Police are searching Smithfield for a vicious acid throwing dog-killer who has claimed many family pets among his victims…

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LABOR MPs Say 'No War, Disarm'

Tribune · Wednesday 27 September 1961 · page 5

CANBERRA: Members on both sides of Federal Parliament called for consideration of the Soviet Government's disarmament proposals, and warned against the danger of war over Berlin. THIS gives further evidence…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 29 September 1961 · page 11

Services: Fri., 6.30 p.m.; Sat., 9.30 a.m. Hoshanah Rabbah: Sun., Shacharith, 8 a.m…

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Imperialists Want Un As Instrument in the Cold War

Tribune · Wednesday 4 October 1961 · page 9

In the speech proposing to the United Nations a new "disarmament" plan, US President Kennedy flatly rejected all proposals for reconstitution of UN administration. This alone makes the…

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New Soviet plan to stop immediate war threat, free colonies

Tribune · Wednesday 4 October 1961 · page 4

MOSCOW: In the interests of all humanity the Soviet Union has made a new series of peace offers designed to make it easier for the western powers to move away from their rigid rejection of each and every Soviet peace move…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 6 October 1961 · page 11

Services: Fri., 6.30 p.m.; Sat., 9.30 a.m…

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War danger in South East Asia

Tribune · Wednesday 11 October 1961 · page 1

As the patriots' struggle for independence mounted in South East Asia this week, so did the danger that Australian troops would be sent to help save odious Asian dictators from their people's wrath…

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Atomic War Fears Spread Lunacy in U.s.a

Tribune · Wednesday 11 October 1961 · page 6

"NOT since the nation's first Secretary of Defence ran down the street in his nightshirt shouting the Reds are…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 13 October 1961 · page 11

Services: Fri., 6.30 p.m.; Sat., 9.30 a.m. Classes: Sun. 9 a.m. and Tues. 4 p.m…

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War Forces Strike at Germany Talks

Tribune · Wednesday 18 October 1961 · page 1

Cancellation of the announced Western Foreign Ministers' talks on Germany and Berlin is a blow in the direction or war, delivered by the French Government, but inspired by the most militarist groupings in the United States and…

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Disarmament--plans for Peace and War

Tribune · Wednesday 18 October 1961 · page 7

THE fundamental difference between all US plans for disarmament, including the most recent…

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British MP exposes cold war origins

Tribune · Wednesday 18 October 1961 · page 6

IT was early 1943. A few months earlier President Roosevelt, of the United States of America, and Mr. Churchill,…

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Soviet proposals U.S. proposals 1. Proposals to abate the cold war atmosphere and reduce the danger of war

Tribune · Wednesday 18 October 1961 · page 7

Withdrawal of all troops from foreign bases. Establishment of atom-free zones in Europe, Asia and Africa…

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"War Was Planned for 1961" Trade union call for action on Germany

Tribune · Wednesday 18 October 1961 · page 9

"An attack was to have been organised against the German Democratic Republic in the autumn of 1961. That was to be the starting point of a Third World War."…

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Bankstown War Memorial Synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 20 October 1961 · page 11

Services: Fri., 6.30 p.m.; Sat., 9.30 a.m. Classes: Sun. 9 a.m. and Tues. 4 p.m…

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The Lesson: War Brewing!

Tribune · Wednesday 25 October 1961 · page 1

The picture, as published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday, shows United States General Maxwell Taylor, special military emissary to South Vietnam, inspecting the US guns of dictator Diem's troops last Sunday. Top, from…

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