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GB offers council peace draft; Brit and US plans to be studied by Foreign Mins; other interested nations to be consulted later
condition and spirits improve after night in US Army hosp, Yokohama, following plasma injections and blood transfusion from US soldier; suicide pistol revealed to be type issued US Army pilots; Japanese scoff at Tojo failure to commit hara-kiri; illus just before and just after suicide attempt
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To return to Socony-Vacuum Oil Co post; on PAW eastern States oil pool end
Awarded Silver Star for OSS work
1945Noël Godin, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter[†]
Noël Godin is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious pie thrower or entarteur. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with pies. After bombarding Gates, Godin allegedly said, "My work here is done." He has been described as "the French-speaking world's best-known prankster."
1945Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (died 2002)[†]
Andres Küng was a Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin. He was born in Ockelbo in Gävleborg County to a family of refugees from Soviet occupied Estonia.