@helenpugh@mastodon.online avatar helenpugh , to random

Bit of a long shot, but does anyone here know anything about the female British typists who went to Germany in 1945 to type up the peace treaty? My grandmother was one of them!

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I'm sure we'll hear the same uproar we heard when trump slagged off allied soldiers the other week.....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/idf-bulldoze-gaza-war-cemetery-allied-graves-satellite-images

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An event was held on Friday to honor Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American civil rights activist who fought against U.S. forced detentions during World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/01/japan/japanese-american-rights-activist/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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A Japanese court ordered the government to pay compensation to the bereaved relatives of three hibakusha atomic bomb survivors who returned to South Korea afterward and could not receive relief aid for a long time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/28/japan/crime-legal/court-damages-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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A wooden relief depicting the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, long displayed at an art gallery, has returned to the junior high school where it was created about 50 years ago after alumni restored it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/21/japan/society/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-relief/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Jan 20, 1951 NYT A prolonged delay before 2,200 Japanese-Americans finally learn whether they are legally citizens of this country. The 2,200 had renounced American citizenship during . They were among the 112,000 persons of Japanese descent who were evacuated from the West Coast.
https://www.nytimes.com/1951/01/21/archives/nisei-facing-delay-in-citizenship-test-court-gives-us-time-to-show.html

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Jan 17, 1941 NYT Colonel William J Donovan, President Roosevelt's special representative, who came to the British Middle East command here after a visit to London, departed today without, any public statement as to the purpose of his trip.
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/17/archives/colonel-donovan-leaves-cairo.html

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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung have wrapped up a summit rich in symbolism highlighting their commitment to cementing strong personal and bilateral ties. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/14/japan/politics/japan-south-korea-takaichi-lee-focus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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The scenes a soldier of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army witnessed after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II were enough to prompt him to build an orphanage still around today. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/12/japan/society/japan-hiroshima-child-welfare/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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In Taiwan’s Yilan county, efforts are being made to preserve aircraft bunkers built by Imperial Japan during World War II for its kamikaze suicide attack pilots and commemorate them as part of local history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/11/japan/history/taiwan-kamikaze-wwii/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Jan 11, 1941 NYT An undisclosed number of United States Army troops will sail from the Army Base in Brooklyn for the new naval base at Newfoundland, Canada which is one of eight bases recently leased to the United States by Great Britain in exchange for fifty destroyers.
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/11/archives/to-leave-for-new-base-troops-will-sail-from-brooklyn-wednesday-for.html

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Jan 11, 1941 NYT An overwhelming majority of the American people are convinced that the success of Britain in this war is essential to the security of the United States. They intend that the material resources of this nation shall be made available to Britain promptly enough, and on a large enough scale, to turn the tide of battle.
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/11/archives/the-presidents-bill.html

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Jan 12, 1941 NYT With one of the world's former great powers, France, prostrate and Nazi troops occupying the Atlantic coast of Europe from the northernmost tip of Norway to the Bay of Biscay as well as strategically important positions in Southeastern Europe extending to the Black Sea, the Germans feel confident that militarily their hold on Europe for the foreseeable future cannot be successfully assailed.
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/12/archives/reich-is-confident-despite-us-stand-nazis-believe-they-can-hold.html

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Jan 12, 1941 General Robert E Wood, national chairman of the America First Committee, appealed tonight to “Americans who still value their liberty” to flood Washington with protests against President Roosevelt's aid to Britain bill.
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/12/archives/wood-urges-protest-on-aid-to-britain-bill-head-of-america-first.html

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Jan 13, 1941 NYT "The world order which we seek," said President Roosevelt in his address to the Seventy-seventh Congress, "is the cooperation of free countries working together in a friendly, civilized society." Under the Nazi belief in the inherent superiority of the “new order" they have established, only a "Deutschland ueber Alles" could be regarded as an acceptable peace aim of the Third Reich
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/13/archives/germanys-peace-aims.html

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Jan 15, 1941 NYT The recent assertion by Colonel Charles A Lindbergh that America must build bulwarks against "the inroads of the Mongol, Persian and Moor" and must preserve the purity of the "white race's culture" was challenged as racial theory fraught with danger to American culture at the annual dinner of the American Institute for Iranian Art and Archaeology.
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/15/archives/lindbergh-scored-on-race-culture-iranian-institute-head-derides.html

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Jan 21, 1941 A majority of voters throughout the country endorse in principle President Roosevelt's proposal to lease or lend war materials to the British, a survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion has shown, according to Dr. George Gallup, its director. "Other institute studies in recent weeks have found the rank and file of Republicans and Democrats substantially agreed that England should be aided even at the risk of war, and that the country's future safety depends on a British victory.
https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/22/archives/most-voters-endorse-the-leaselend-bill-in-principle-gallup-survey.html

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2006 Russia yesterday confirmed it had finished paying off all its debts to western nations dating from the Soviet era, thanks to surging oil prices. Moscow said it had repaid a final chunk of $22.5bn (£11.8bn) and $1.3 bn in servicing costs. The payments were made to 17 creditor countries, known as the Paris Club, over the past week. It has repaid a total of $40bn over the past year.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/aug/22/russia

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A Japanese group remains resolved to seek state relief for civilians who sustained injuries and other damage from U.S. air raids during World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/28/japan/japan-wwii-air-raid-damage-relief-demand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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