Arizona sun., 1948-12-31

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.
New Italian trade and friendship
treaty signed in Rome.
France and Spain agree to reopen
their frontier. officially closed for two
28-Russia gains complete control over
CZechoSlovakia through Czech Com
munist party in bloodless coup. in one
week.
March
A-Rep. Gerald w. Lands (R., Ind)
states that strikes cost 920 million In
wages in 1946 and 281 million in 1947.
6-State Secretary Marshall and Defense
Secretary Forrestal urge authorize
ton of additional 275 million dollar
military assistance to Greece and
Turkey.
1s-U. S. abandons its support of part.
ton of the Holy Land.
M-President Peron of Argentina says
that Argentina will not ban commu-
3l-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.
-Rritain refers Holy Land dispute to
s-Outbreak Of rioting interrupts Bogota
12-Bronze Statue of Franklin d. Roose.
welt Is unveiled in London.
4Q-EinniSh Yar1i mont QnY1r0VQN RUSSO.
Finnish defense treaty.
May
First Congress of Europe is held in
The Hague.
1s-Arab League proclaims in Damascus
that "state of war" exists between
It's members and the Jewish rebels
l4Israel first Jewish state in the Holy
the is Jewish i, National Council meeting
26-Gen. Jan Christian Smuts and his
United Party are defeated in South
African election.
June
7-Dr. Eduard Benes. "a, elected Czech
president for life In June. 1916. re.
signs.
11-Cease.fire order takes effect on Pal.
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12-Senate appropriations committee re.
stores 1.011 billion of the 1.256 billion
cut by the house from ERP.
2-Soviet occupation forces ban all ship.
ments from western Germany to Ber-
lin.
July
6-Britain, France and U. S. demand in
nearly identical notes that Russia lift
it's blockade of Berlin.
0-Holy Land truce, which began June
IL, expires, and all three principal
fronts again flame into action.
12-British lend-lease account with the
y: S. IS closed out.
27-Maj Gen. Hershey announces that
the new draft will take 25-year olds
first and youngest men last.
29-YugoSlav Communists re-elect Mar.
shalTito as head of the politiburo:
3O-Envoys of Western Big Three begin
series of official talks in Moscow.
31-Another u. S. tribunal IN Nuremberg
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, So, Russian
chemistry teacher, plunges from
third-floor window of Russia's New
York consulate to escape Reds.
12-Anglo-U. S. airlift to Berlin achieves
the 4, 4,500.ton.a.day goal.
15-Democratic republic OF Korea 10 for.
mally proclaimed.
September
LChile's Communist party Is outlawed
under act of congress.
A-Queeu Wilhelmina ends 5O-year reign
over Netherlands. In favor OF daugh.
ter Juliana
@Pope Plus XII broadcasts his first
speech to German Catholics since the
1-Gen. Lucius d. Clay predicts in Ber-
lin that winter.long siege is in pros
17-Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte.
U. NJ mediator for Palestine. assas'
21-Third annual session of 58.nation U.N.
general assembly opens In Paris.
October
1-Panama's new president, Domingo
Diaz Arosemena, is inaugurated
6-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-Russias disarmament plan, offered
at the Paris U. N. meeting. is chal-
lenged by the U. S.
November
1-Chinese Communists completed their
rout of the NationalistS in Manchu-
ria and subdued the last resistance
in Mukden.
la million men locked in battle on a
2OO-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
13-Herbert Evatt, president of the U. NJ
aScanohlxI and Trxrcue I IL