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Draft plan for mobilizing all US agencies involved in internatl relations into single US unit to assure full UNO participation discussed
answers Sen Brewster attack on previous day's testimony concerning relative strength of US Atlantic and Pactific Fleets
difficulties of individuals in investing in new stocks at offering prices discussed
US Cath Bishops attack UNO Security Council provisions as alliance of great powers excluding smaller nations
Rept on troop movement situation survey discussed
1945Wilma Mankiller, American tribal chief (died 2010)[†]
Wilma Pearl Mankiller was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's allotment in Adair County, Oklahoma, until the age of 11, when her family relocated to San Francisco as part of a federal government program to urbanize Indigenous Americans. After high school, she married a well-to-do Ecuadorian and raised two daughters. Inspired by the social and political movements of the 1960s, Mankiller became involved in the Occupation of Alcatraz and later participated in the land and compensation struggles with the Pit River Tribe. For five years in the early 1970s, she was employed as a social worker, focusing mainly on children's issues.
1945Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 6th President of Sri Lanka[†]
Mahinda Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the sixth President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015; the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2004 to 2005, 2018, and 2019 to 2022; the Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2004 and 2018 to 2019, and the Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2015 and 2019 to 2021.