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to reconvene following recess for Stone death; Justice Black to act pending apptmt; docket revd
incomplete results of county council elections in US occupation zone show Christian Soc Union victory in Bavaria and Baden and close second to Soc Dems in Greater Hesse; disorders reptd in 4 Bavarian towns
Sen Judiciary Subcom investigates repts that US cos, with State Dept consent, negotiate sale of war secrets to foreign power; Sen Eastland offers bill to make transaction unlawful
working coms of Cong party and Moslem League accept inv; possibility of compromise and Jinnah position discussed
W B Benjamin admits heavy losses; refuses to name bookmakers
1946Rodney Frelinghuysen, American politician and lobbyist[†]
Rodney Procter Frelinghuysen is an American former politician and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 11th congressional district from 1995 to 2019. The district includes most of Morris County, an affluent suburban county west of New York City. A member of the Republican Party, Frelinghuysen served as chair of the House Appropriations Committee from 2017 to 2019. Frelinghuysen announced on January 29, 2018, that he would not seek re-election that year.
1946The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.[†]
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during World War II. The IMTFE was modeled after the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, Germany, which prosecuted the leaders of Nazi Germany for their war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.