"I do not speak to-night as a representative of the British Government," said the British Ambassador (Viscount Halifax in an address on India in the New York Town Hall. "I speak as an Englishman who served for five years as Viceroy and who ...
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Article : 140 wordsIn three air raids, only one of which was heavy and two on a more moderate scale, the R.A.F. has struck a blow at German armoured ...
Article : 506 wordsVice-Admiral Hart former Allied Chief in the South-west-Pacific, revealed that a small United States naval force was still operating in the ...
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Article : 311 words"History offers many examples of the peaceful subjugation of the invader, but none is more remarkable than that in which Hinduism, in the ...
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Article : 89 wordsAn additional 100 British air trainees have arrived in Canada, also some Canadian Air Force men on leave One interesting ...
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Article : 258 wordsThe "New York Times," in a leader, says that although the Pacific War Council is a purely consultative body which has no power to make ...
Article : 117 wordsAn Air Ministry communique says that five bombers are missing from 'last night's raids on the Ruhr and Rhineland. Coastal Command planes ...
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Article : 33 wordsA communique issued at 9.30 a.m. says:—Philippine theatre: The enemy continued heavy attacks on the centre of our line at Batan all day on April ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Stockholm "Tidningen" publishes a message from Oslo stating that all clergymen in Norway have handed in their resignations to the Quisling ...
Article : 173 wordsThe State Department has announced that shipments of clothing, fuel and other non-military supplies to French North Africa will be resumed soon. It ...
Article : 142 wordsA big force of R.A.F. planes participated in an offensive sweep in the direction of the French coast this morning. ...
Article : 23 wordsA conference of the United Automobile Workers' delegates approved unanimously of the C.I.O. Executive; Board's victory programme, wa[?]ving ...
Article : 38 wordsMrs. Evatt, in a statement to the Press, expressed approval of marriages between American soldiers and Australian girls. She said she saw no ...
Article : 199 wordsSir Muhammed Zafrulla Khan, a former member of the Viceroy's Cabinet and Judge of the Federal Court, has been appointed India's first ...
Article : 25 wordsA Moscow communique says there were no significant changes on the front last night. The Russians in one sector on the North-western front continued ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Congress Working Committee, at a four-hour meeting, reached a decision on the British reply to the Congress counter proposals. The decision ...
Article : 118 wordsGeorge Wanderman, of New York who holds 50 of the 3,394,000 shares of Common stock of the Curtis Publishing Co., brought a suit in the Federal ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) at a Press conference said submarine attacks on the United States Atlantic coast had dropped ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Tokio radio states that Imperial Headquarters again claim "the conquest of Sumatra is now complete," and adds that the Japanese captured ...
Article : 92 words"The Times" correspondent at NewDelhi says that the readjustments o[?] the Allied line in Burma were prompted by the need to obtain a more ...
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Article : 174 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Express" at New Delhi states that the Congress leader (Pandit Nehru) in an interview said: "India, for Britishers, ...
Article : 137 wordsGeneral MacNaughton, commander of the First Canadian Army, which was established on April 6, speaking at headquarters, said the establishment of ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Tokio official radio states that Colonel Okada, Chief of the War Preparations section of the Ministry, declared to-day that Japanese transports ...
Article : 117 wordsA Cairo R.A.F. communique states that bombers yesterday effectively raided the landing grounds at Derna. Fighters acconpanying the bombers ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Council of the Liberal Federation issued a statement saying that the federation welcomes the proposal to make India a self-governing ...
Article : 154 wordsThirteen Japanese transports and six warships have been sighted o[?] Army on the south coast of China. There are also three Japanese divisions ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Government announced that the Brazilian merchantman Capadello, formerly the Prussia, which sailed from Philadelphia on February 14 with 55 ...
Article : 47 wordsThe military spokesman says that the Japanese are still advancing on the Prome front, and are pressing forward in 100 trucks and many tanks, against ...
Article : 65 wordsThe United Automobile Workers' Committee of Industrial Organisation Executive Board proposed to-day a legal limit of 25,000 dollars a year on ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Caspian sea has now reopened, and the first group of laden Sovlet tankers left Baku for Astrakhan following the news of the ice moving. The ...
Article : 51 wordsAn explosion on a captured Italian ammunition lighter at a wharf near Suez killed eight British soldiers and 22 Egyptian workers. Eighty Egyptian ...
Article : 49 wordsFacing endless waves of fresh Japanese troops. Americans and [?] fought desperately yesterday for every inch of ground lost under [?] ...
Article : 44 wordsThe newspaper "El Mundo" said today that seven freighters had been torpedoed during the past 48 hours, six of them south of Ca[?] Hatteras, and ...
Article : 55 wordsBritish forces in Burma retreated to new positions 65 miles from the main oil centre of Miabu after successfully demolishing the old and cement instal ...
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