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Gen Marshall forms truce plan involving Communist withdrawal from Harbin and Tsitsihar and requiring Govt to send civil personnel, not troops, to administer cities; Chiang Kai-shek lrs to Marshall set requisites for truce; mil situation revd; map
gets Brazil's note withdrawing objection to subcom rept
Cancels days off for operating employes during Hudson tube strike
Policy on Ger cited
1946Michael Clarke, American drummer (died 1993)[†]
Michael Clarke was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the 1960s rock group the Byrds from 1964 to 1967. He died in 1993, at age 47, from liver failure, a direct result of more than three decades of heavy alcohol consumption.
1946Penelope Wilton, English actress[†]
Dame Penelope Alice Wilton is an English actress.
1946Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician (born 1875)[†]
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the nominal head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946. From 1926 until his death, he was a member of the Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).