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Roosevelt offers to H S Johnson post of administrator of act
Armament limitation
Japanese occupy Miyun; one Japanese force nears Tungchow, 13 miles from Peiping; another force near Lutai; Japanese notify foreign diplomats that unless Chinese agree to Japanese terms, they will occupy Peiping and Tientsin; Brit guard in Peiping strengthened; populace indifferent
Management attacked by S Untermyer and Judge Knox
1933Edward de Bono, Maltese physician, author, and academic (died 2021)[†]
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was a Maltese physician and commentator. He originated the term lateral thinking, and wrote many books on thinking, including Six Thinking Hats.
1933Finnish cavalry general C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed the field marshal.[†]
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was a Finnish military commander and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War (1918), as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as commander-in-chief of the Finnish Defence Forces during World War II (1939–1945), and as the sixth president of Finland (1944–1946). He became Finland's only field marshal in 1933 and was appointed honorary Marshal of Finland in 1942.