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Security Council debate on agenda issue discussed; US view that USSR forced Iran request to drop case noted
com chmn C A Davis urges long-range program; Lehman charges US with faulty planning; LaGuardia expresses confidence in adm
continues to back USSR demand for deletion of case
delegates day at Polo grounds described
Complaints on Allied pol purge order in Japan answered by Brig Gen Whitney, Allied Council
1946Clare Francis, English sailor and author[†]
Clare Mary Francis MBE is a British novelist who in her first career as a yachtswoman has twice sailed across the Atlantic on her own. She was the first woman to skipper a successful boat on the Whitbread Around the World race.
1946Juan Bautista Sacasa, Nicaraguan medical doctor, politician and 20th President of Nicaragua (born 1874)[†]
Juan Bautista Sacasa was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1933 to 9 June 1936. He was the eldest son of Roberto Sacasa and Ángela Sacasa Cuadra, the former's cousin twice removed. He was a relative of Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa.
1946The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.[†]
Independence Day is Syria's National Day commemorating the evacuation of the last French soldier at the end of the French mandate of Syria on 17 April 1946 after Syria's proclamation of full independence on 27 September 1941.