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July 16, 1946

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RUSSIAN ESPIONAGE IN CANADA CALLED HIGHLY ORGANIZED; Official Report Says Several Parallel Rings Sought and Got Defense Data WORKED IN U.S., BRITAIN Agents Kept Ambassador in Ottawa Ignorant of Tasks of at Least 3 Groups Russian Spies Highly Organized Ambassador Not Involved Only Small Sums Paid U.S. Gathering Evidence Scholar at Los Angeles Named

By P.j. Philip Special To the New York Times

Official Canadian rept quoted as saying USSR agent sent uranium 235 sample to Moscow

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DISASTER ONUS PUT ON KIMMEL, SHORT; Pearl Harbor Inquiry Majority Criticizes Navy, Army, but Lauds Roosevelt, Hull DISASTER ONUS PUT ON KIMMEL, SHORT Criticisms of Army and Navy

By William S. White Special To the New York Times

8 members of com initial rept and send it to printer; rept believed to commend Roosevelt and Hull, putting onus on Kimmel and Short and on War and Navy Depts; Repub Sen Ferguson minority rept blames Roosevelt and Hull; Keefe and Gearhart go along with majority but make reservations; com seeks further extension of time

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EVATT WARNS BIG 4 OF PARLEY REVOLT BY SMALL NATIONS; Demanding Equality on Peace, He Insists They Will Fight 'Rubber Stamp' Relegation RULES OUT VETO IN PARIS Australian Holds Fallacious the Idea That Military Power Monopolizes Wisdom Wartime Acquiescence Recalled Evatt Warns Big Four of Revolt By Small Powers at Peace Table Surrender Snub Alleged Shackling" Efforts Deplored Alludes to Council Vetoes

By Thomas J. Hamilton

Warns Big 4 against dictating peace at Paris Peace Conf, radio s

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Notable Births

Louise Fréchette

1946Louise Fréchette, Canadian civil servant and diplomat, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations[†]

Louise Fréchette is a Canadian diplomat and public servant who served for eight years as United Nations Deputy Secretary-General. She also served a three-year term at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, an international relations and policy think-tank in Waterloo, Ontario, working on a major research project on nuclear energy and the world's security.