The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-12-30
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1 ri January
tRy q 3-522 m%illion-dollar aid
EH 9 program for France
49, and Italy gets under
ST. S. aid mission in
Athens hands Greek army and ma
tional guard an additional Is million
to raise army to 1872, 900.
3-Nationwide strike of 60. 900 bank EN-.
ployees in Italy ends. Salaries raised
Is per cent.
ls-Mohandas x Gandhi ends l2l.hour
fast in New Delhi.
23-Union of Western nations endorsed by
U. s state department.
30-Gandhi shot In New Delhi by Hindu
nationalist.
February
Russia protests that low.lying BITS
are making inspections OF Soviet ships
In the Yellow sea and Sea of Japan
2-New italian trade and friendship
treaty signed in Rome.
France and Spain agree to reopen
their frontier officially closed tor two
years
28-Russia gains complete control over
CzechosloVakia through Czech Com.
munist party in bloodless coup. In one
week.
March
4-Rep. Gerald ". Lands tR:,. Ind:)
states that strikes cost 920 million In
wages in 1916 and 28l million In l947
8-State Secretary Marshall and Defense
Secretary Forrestal urge authorize.
ton Of additional 275 million dollar
military assistance to Greece and
Turkey.
19-U. S. abandons It's support of part.
ton of the Holy Land.
24-President Peron of Argentina says
that Argentina will not ban commu-
sl-Russia Starts battle of blockades
against other allies In Berlin.
April
1-Secretary Marshall tells ninth inter.
national conference of American
states in Bogota that ERP must take
precedence over aid to Latin America.
2-Britain refers Holy Land dispute to
9-Outbreak Of rioting interrupts Bogota
conference.
l2-Bronze statue of Franklin D. Roose.
Welt is unveiled In London:
Finnish defense treaty.
May
First Congress of Europe is held in
TIL Hague.
13-Arab League proclaims in Damascus
that a state of war" exists between
its members and the Jewish rebels
of Palestine"
n-israel. first Jewish state in the Holy
Land since 10 A. D.. is proclaimed by
the Jewish National Council meeting
in Tel AviV.
26-Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS and his
TIpftai parfv ara defeated in q Sniitn
African election.
June
7-Dr. Eduard Benes. "a. elected Czech
president for life In June. 1916. re-
signs.
estine,s lighting fronts under four
I2-Senate appropriations committee re.
stores l.011 billion Of the l.256 billion
cut by the house from ERP.
24-soviet occupation FORCES ban all ship
lin.
July
6-Britain. France and u. S. demand IN
nearly identical notes that Russia lift
its blockade of Berlin.
9-Holy Land truce. which began June
II. expires. and all three principal
fronts again fame into action.
l2-British lend-Iease account with the
U. S. Is closed out.
T-Maj. Gen. Hershey announces tnat
the new draft will take 25.year olds
first and Youngest men last;
29-Yugoslav Communists ~re.elect Mar.
shall Tito as head Of the ~politiburo.,
30-Envoys of Western Big Three begin
series of official talks in Moscow.
sentences II Of IL Krupp munitions
directors to prison.
! August
2+secret plan for control Of Danube wa
terways is presented to the Danube
conference In Belgrade.
Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, 50. Russian
chemistry teacher. plunges from
third floor window Of Russia's New
York consulate to escape Reds.
l2-Anglo.U. S. airlift to Berlin achieves
the 4.5oo,ton.a.day goal.
mally proclaimed.
September
3-Chire's Communist party Is outlaweo
under act of congress.
Queen Wilhelmina ends 50-year reign
over Netherlands. in favor of daugh
s-Pope Plus XII ~broadeasts his irst
speech TO German Catholics since the
war.
A-Gen. Lucius D. Clay predicts in Der
lin that winter.long siege is In pros
pect
l7-Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte,
u. N. mediator for Palestine. assas
sinated.
21-Third annual session of 58-nation IN
general assembly opens in Paris.
October
I-Panama's new president, Domingo
DiaZ Arosemena, is i~naugurated.
8--Norway. Cuba and Egypt are elected
by the u. N. general assembly In
Paris to replace Belgium. Columbia
and Syria on the security council Tor
tWo-year terms.
9-Russia's disarmament plan, offered
at the Paris U. N. meeting. Is chal
lenged by the U. S.
November
1-ChineSe Communists completed theil
rout of the Nationalist in Manchu
ria and subdued the last resistance
in Mukden.
IA million men locked In battle on a
200.mile front in the Suchow area In
the Nationalist Communist war in
China.
l2--Hideki TOTO and six co-defendants In
the principal Japanese war crimes
trial are sentenced to death by hang
ing
general assembly. and Trygve Lie
rectIy to the Big Four to settle the
n Berlin dispute by direct negotiation,
IA SON Is born to Princess EliZabeth OF
England and Prince Philip. Duke Of
Edinburg. -
26-Mme. Chang kai-shek announces snF