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Sec Byrnes says US policy calls for support of Central Govt, lr to Repr J Z Anderson; text
proposals attacked by P Murray
Nuremberg trial prosecutor Sir H Shawcross defends Internatl Mil Tribunal competence to mete out retroactive justice and hold individuals responsible for nation's crimes against peace; says ct merely fixes punishment for breach of existing internatl laws against war
Miles testifies on War Dept Dec 7, '41, conf with Marshall, com hearing
1945Serge Chapleau, Canadian cartoonist[†]
Serge Chapleau is a Canadian political cartoonist.
1945Moshe Katsav, Iranian-Israeli educator and politician, 8th President of Israel[†]
Moshe Katsav is an Israeli former politician who was the president of Israel from 2000 to 2007. He was also a leading Likud member of the Israeli Knesset and a minister in its cabinet. He was the first Mizrahi Jew to be elected to the presidency, and second non-Ashkenazi president after Yitzhak Navon. He is also the only ex-Israeli president to have been convicted of a crime.
1945Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.[†]
Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. All 14 naval aviators on the flight were lost, as were all 13 crew members of a Martin PBM Mariner that subsequently launched from Naval Air Station Banana River to search for Flight 19.