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GB: Only 50 individuals reptd with incomes over £100,000, '46
speculation on effect of Thompson veto of white primary bill on party split
US LABOR: Repr Hartley announces House Labor com maps emergency bill to permit Govt to enjoin strikes threatening communications
Brief filed with Gov Dewey urging veto of Condon-Wadlin bill outlawing pub employees strikes
Min Gruber sees Austria rejecting peace treaty if it cedes Carinthia to Yugoslavia; says Carinthians wish to remain Austrian; conf with Min Molotov; sees USSR blocking Yugoslav claim
1947Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (born 1897)[†]
Karol Wacław Świerczewski was a Polish and Soviet Red Army general and statesman. He was a Bolshevik Party member and served in the Soviet Red Army during the Russian Civil War and participated in the wars against the Polish and Ukrainian Republics. He also participated alongside the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. At the start of World War II In 1939, he participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland. At the end of the war he was installed as one of leaders of the Soviet-sponsored Polish Provisional Government of National Unity. Soon later, Świerczewski died in a country-road ambush shot by the militants from OUN-UPA. He was an icon of communist propaganda for the following several decades.