Indecision and Troop Cuts Impede Army in Germany; INDECISION CURBS ARMY IN GERMANY
US failure to insist on speedy solution of dispute on Ger adm centralization traced to confusion or disinclination in Washington, DC
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US failure to insist on speedy solution of dispute on Ger adm centralization traced to confusion or disinclination in Washington, DC
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1946Cliff Balsom, English footballer[†]
Clifford Gene "Cliff" Balsom is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Torquay United. He was born in Torquay, Devon.

1946Daniel Bensaïd, French philosopher and author (died 2010)[†]
Daniel Bensaïd was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X-Nanterre.
1946Stephen Hunter, American author and critic[†]
Stephen Hunter is an American novelist, essayist, and film critic.
1946Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (died 1991)[†]
Catherine Joséphine "Katia" Krafft and her husband, Maurice Paul Krafft were French volcanologists and filmmakers who died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Nagasaki, Japan, on 3 June 1991. The Kraffts became well known as pioneers in the filming, photographing, and recording of volcanoes, often coming within feet of lava flows. Their obituary appeared in the Bulletin of Volcanology. Since their deaths, their work has been featured in two documentary films by Werner Herzog, Into the Inferno (2016) and The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022), and a further film, Fire of Love (2022), depicted their lives, relationship and careers using their archived footage.