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NOEL-BAKER MAKES H-BOMB PLEDGE

... early yesterday morning. We have to ask ourselves why we have the atom bomb and the H bomb today. The reason is the second world war, and this occurred because the League of Nations was destroyed when its members refused to carry out the pledges they ...

Published: Monday 20 February 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 435 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Lowest death rate on record

... million fewer people in the country. Compared with 1938 (which had the lowest standardised mortality of any year before the second world war) the mortality index at all ages showed a 20 per cent. decline. The birth-rate (17.8), although lower than in 1947 (20 ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 686 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Silverware: we must cut our prices

... The effect of this has been to prevent the British exporter from building up his business to the level of before the second World War. WILLATT tant export items for the British silverware industry. Mr. Costigan showed me a memorandum submitted to thi ...

Published: Thursday 27 April 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 393 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The bill: £130,000

... It is a story of human problems confronting American airmen based !n Britain for daylight bombing missions during the Second World War. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 285 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NO U.S. HOLIDAY FOR JACQUELINE

... an American organisation whose 375,000 members are the wives or widows of Servicemen who fought during the first and second world wars on foreign soil. ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 319 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

His influence

... British CJmrnonwealth owes General Smuts an incalculable debt for the way in which he assumed power at the outbreak of the Second World War, when the question of South African participation was in the balance. and took her along the path of duty and honour ...

Published: Wednesday 24 May 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 117 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A tribute'

... it is from a German that Lord Wavell received one of his most striking tributes—General Keitel, who just before the Second World War wrote of Wavell : In the British Army there is only one good general, but he is incomparably good. General Wavell may ...

Published: Thursday 25 May 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 109 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Disappointment

... Disappointment IN the Second World War he war. at first in command of our forces in the Middle East. Armies under his charge in three months drove numerically superior enemy farces from Egypt. Kenya and the Sudan. His strategy also played a great part ...

Published: Thursday 25 May 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 82 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RIVER PLATE HERO DIES

... RIVER PLATE HERO DIES Admi. Sir Henry Harwood, hero of the first major sea battle of the second World War—the battle of the River Plate—has died at Goring-on-Thames. Sir Henry. who was 62. was in command of the cruiser squadron which routed the German ...

Published: Tuesday 13 June 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 70 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Japan : what happen now?

... defeated enemies like Germany and Japan with all the horrors they inflicted on humanity, he would have been told It is the second World War we are discussing, not the First. The world will not be had for suckers twice in a lifetime. by M. INWOOD D D eek. ulles ...

Published: Tuesday 20 June 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 430 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

mom* maw tills hailigis mot U. 11.1? mord me w&

... in Tokyo harbour, standing with hands in khaki slacks and battered, gold-encrusted cap on head. Since the end of the Second World War MacArthur the legendary general has become MacArthur the legendary god. While the once-divine Emperor Hirohito, on M ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 894 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LEADERS IN ARTS, SCIENCE HONOURED

... team of pathologists from St. Mary's Hospital who were trying to understand the details of wound sepsis. During the second world war he made outstanding advances '..i the treatment of burns. We are proud that he made his headquarters in our city. His ...

Published: Monday 03 July 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 699 | Page: 3 | Tags: none