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exec com members will ask Kennedy resignation; Kennedy refusal will force Repr Fay to call meeting as result of petition; Loughlin election scheduled; Kennedy refuses comment; influence decline noted
USSR, through Tass, rejects Polish offer; refuses to renew ties with exiled govt; accuses govt of trying to mislead pub opinion and evading Curzon Line issue; USSR cites Katyn Forest near Smolensk incident; appts inquiry comm; text; Allied officials in London interest noted
Eisenhower arrives, London, to assume command after conf with Roosevelt in Wash and Churchill in Marrakesh; to conf with chief aides on details
Drew reaffirms innocence; LaGuardia expresses satisfaction with his disclaimer, radio ss
US troops capture Mt Trocchio, last natural barrier on way to Cassino; French seize Vallerotonda and ht only 8 mi from Atina; 8th Army still slowed; Allies bomb rys and other targets around Florence; map
1944Ann Oakley, English sociologist, author, and academic[†]
Ann Rosamund Oakley is a British sociologist, feminist, and writer. She is professor and founder-director of the Social Science Research Unit at the UCL Institute of Education of the University College London, and in 2005 partially retired from full-time academic work to concentrate on her writing, especially on new novels.
1944World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.[†]
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members were the "Big Four" – the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, and China.