WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- A joint declaration by members of the United Nations was issued today condemning Germany's "bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination" of Jews and declaring that "such events can only strengthen the resolve of all freedom-loving peoples to overthrow the barbarous Hitlerite tyranny."

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U.S. PLANES STRIKE; Eight-Hour Tunis Raid Marks Six-Day Air Offensive by Allies FIVE AXIS CRAFT DOWNED No Losses for Allied Fliers -- Rain and Mud Slow Down Operations on Land VESSELS OF THE FRENCH FLEET AFTER SCUTTLING U.S. PLANES BLAST BIZERTE AND TUNIS

By Frank L. Kluckhohnspecial Broadcast To the New York Times

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1942Lenore Blum, American mathematician and academic^[†]

Lenore Carol Blum is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made contributions to the theories of real number computation, cryptography, and pseudorandom number generation. She was a distinguished career professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University until 2019 and is currently a professor in residence at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also known for her efforts to increase diversity in mathematics and computer science.

1942Bobby Keyes, Australian rugby league player (died 2022)^[†]

Robert John Keyes was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s.

Headlines from December 18, 1942

Must Have Papers, The Mayor Admits

NEW PLAN SUSPENDS LIBERAL EDUCATION; Stimson and Knox Give Details of Draft of Colleges -- Opposition Mounts NEW PLAN SUSPENDS LIBERAL EDUCATION

FORTRESSES ERASE 12 ZERO ATTACKERS; Big Bombers Fell All of Group of Japanese Planes in the Solomons -- Warship Hit JAPANESE ZERO PILOTS SHOT DOWN AT GUADALCANAL FORTRESSES ERASE 12 ZERO ATTACKERS

11 ALLIES CONDEMN NAZI WAR ON JEWS; United Nations Issue Joint Declaration of Protest on 'Cold-Blooded Extermination' 11 ALLIES CONDEMN NAZI WAR ON JEWS

U.S. PLANES STRIKE; Eight-Hour Tunis Raid Marks Six-Day Air Offensive by Allies FIVE AXIS CRAFT DOWNED No Losses for Allied Fliers -- Rain and Mud Slow Down Operations on Land VESSELS OF THE FRENCH FLEET AFTER SCUTTLING U.S. PLANES BLAST BIZERTE AND TUNIS

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