MINISTRY OF SHIPPING
APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED Received Oct. 15. 7 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 14. With the object of the new Minister of Shipping (Mr. Gilmour), Sir F. Vernon Thomson. Sir Cyril Hurcomb and Sir E. Julian Fry have been appointed respectively advisor, director-general and ministerial secretary. The Mercantile Marine Department n and the Board of Trade are being merged in the Ministry of Shipping. i- > THE VOICE OF FRANCE □ ill DALADIER’S SPEECH - THANKS OF THE PRESIDENT it n PARIS, Oct. 13. After M. Daladier’s statement on the war position to the French Cabinet, President Lebrun thanked him for expressing in his recent speech lhe unanimous feelings and will of the whole French nation. HUMAN LIBERTIES n -;i TRADES I NION DECLARATION n g Received Oct. 15, 6.30 p.m. PARIS, i; i. 14. The International Federation ol Trade Unions declared its unity with the British and French workers in defending human liberties against totalitarian aggression and added that peace is visible only on the basis of the re:-.‘oration and guarantee of the rights of nations and peoples. Herr Hitler’s cynical proposals offered no prospects of this. Sir Walter Citrine presided and Mr. George Hicks, a member of the Commons, attended.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 244, 16 October 1939, Page 7
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