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Com on civil service extension splits on Fed Attys inclusion in merit system
Churchill rejects offer
Japanese Navy Vice Min Toyoda states Japanese Navy is not menaced by current U S Pacific power, s to House com
House com approves and repts out bill to amend 1940 law, provisions
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1941David Puttnam, English film producer and academic[†]
David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA, is a British-Irish film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include Chariots of Fire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Midnight Express and Memphis Belle. In 1982, he received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, and in 2006 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
1941The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.[†]
The Communist Party of the Netherlands was a communist party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1909 as the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and merged with the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and the Evangelical People's Party in 1991, forming the GroenLinks. Members opposed to the merger founded the New Communist Party of the Netherlands.