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Controller Tremaine, Repr Celler and C Whitney urge modification of higher income rates
55,000 refugees in France to be sent home
League of Nations Assembly Pol Com, in compromise resolution, threatens non-intervention end unless foreign troops are recalled
Comintern plot rept foiled; Min Macedo Soares tells of state of war to be declared; internal conditions and executions since 1935 revd
A campaign for a "fitter Britain" was launched tonight by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with an appeal for a "concentrated and determined crusade against ignorance, carelessness and indifference about health services."
1937Saeed Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer (died 2024)[†]
Saeed Ahmed was a Pakistani Test cricketer who captained the national team, and later became a preacher and member of Tablighi Jamaat.