The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-12-30

10 million to raise army to 1872, 000
13-NationWide strike of 10000 bank en-
ployees in Italy ends. Salaries raised IS
per cent.
1s-Mohandas X. Gandhi ends 121-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-hying 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.
6-Paris Figaro states that Soviet fac
tory in the Urals built an atomic bomb
which failed to explode in a test.
France and Spain agree to reopen their
frontier. officially closed for two years.
28-Russia gains complete control over
Czechoslovakia through Czech Commu-
mist party in bloodless coup, in one
week
March
4-Rep Gerald W. Lands (R, Ind.) states
that strikes cost 920 million in wages in
1916 and 281 million in 1947.
6-State Secretary Marshall and Defense
Secretary Forrestal urge authorization
of additional 275 million dollar military
assistance to Greece and Turkey.
19-U. S. abandons its support of partition
of the Holy Land.
2-President Peron of Argentina says that
Argentina will not ban Communist party.
31-Russia starts battle OF blockades against
other allies in Berlin.
April
1-Secretary Marshall tells ninth interna-
tional conference of American states in
Bogota that ERP must take precedence
over aid to Latin America.
2Britain refers Holy Land dispute to u. N.
9-Outbreak of rioting interrupts Bogota con-
ference.
12-Bronze statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt
is unveiled in London.
22-Haganah. Jewish troops, seize Haifa.
28-FinniSh parliament approves RuSSo-Fin.
nish defense treaty
May
First Congress of Europe is held in The
13-Arab League proclaims in Damascus that
state of war" exists between its mem.
bers and the Jewish rebels ofPalestine."
1@Israel. first Jewish state in the Holy Land
since 20 A. D., is proclaimed by the Jew
ish National Council meeting in Tel Aviv.
26-Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS and his Unit
ed Party are defeated in South African
June
7-Dr. Eduard Benes ga, elected Czech
president for life in June, 1916. resigns.
11-Cease-fire order takes effect on Pal
estine's fighting fronts under four-week
12-Senate appropriations committee re-
stores 1.011 billion of the 1.256 billion
cut by the house from ERP.
24-SoViet occupation forces ban all ship
ments from western Germany to Berlin.
July
6-Britain, France and U. S. demand in
nearly identical notes that Russia lift its
blockade of Berlin
IIA1x fnI, T4,n
expires, and all three principal fronts
again flame into action
12-BritiSh Iend-leaSe account with the U. s.
is closed out.
27-Maj. Gen. Hershey announces that the
new draft will take 25-year olds first and
youngest men last.
28-France joins the airlift to Berlin with
token flights using former Junkers JU-52
transports.
29-Yugoslav Communists re-elect Marshal
Tito as head of the politiburo
30-Envoys of Western Big Three begin
series of official talks in Moscow.
31-Another U. S. tribunal in Nuremberg SEN
fences II of IL Krupp munitions direc-
tors to prison.
August
2-Secret plan for control of Danube water.
ways is presented to the Danube confer
ence in Belgrade.
7-Mrs Oksana Kasenkina, So, Russian
chemistry teacher, plunges from third
floor window of Russia's New York con-
sulate to escape Reds.
12-Anglo.U. S. airlift to Berlin achieves the
4,500-ton-a-day goal.
15-Democratic republic of Korea is formally
proclaimed.
September
3-Chile's Communist party is outlawed
under act of congress.
4-Queen Wilhelmina ends 50-year reign
over Netherlands. in favor of daughter
to German Catholics since the war.
8-Russia begins to hold air maneuvers in
western air corridors to Berlin and puts
on aerial and naval shows of force in
Baltic.
l4-Gen Lucius D. Clay predicts in Berlin
that winter-long siege Is in prospect.
17-Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte. U. N
mediator for Palestine. assassinated.
21-Third annual session of 58-nation U. N.
general assembly opens in Paris.
October
1-Panamas new president. Domingo Diaz
AroSemena, is inaugurated.
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 for two-year terms.
9-Russia's disarmament plan. offered at
the Paris Y. N. meeting. is challenged
by the U. S.
November
1-Chinese Communists completed their
route of the Nationalist in Manchuria
and subdued the last resistance in Muk-
don.
4-U. N. general assembly approved the
western plan for atomic energy control
and rejected Russia's alternate pro-
poSal.
ia million men locked in battle on 200
mile front in the Suchow area in the Ma
tionalist-Communist war in China.
12-Hideh TOTO and six co-defendants in the
principal Japanese war crimes trial are
sentenced to death by hanging.
13-Herbert Evatt. president of the U. N.
general assembly and Trygve Lie u N.
secretary general appeal directly to the
Big Four to settle the Berlin dispute by
direct negotiation.
IA son is born to Princess Elizabeth of
England and Prince Philip, Duke of
Edinburgh.
26-Mme Chang Kai-shek announces she
will visit the U. S.
December
mime Chang Kai-shek arrives in u S.,
allegedy to press for -billion-dollar
military and economic loan to China dur.
ing next three years.
12-United Nations assembly ended its IL
week Paris session by endorsing the
Korean government of DR.. Syngman
Rhee and continuing the u. N. Korean
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