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1947Allan Rock, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations[†]
Allan Michael Rock is a Canadian lawyer, former politician, diplomat and university administrator. He was Canada's ambassador to the United Nations (2003-2006) and had previously served in the Cabinet of Jean Chrétien, most notably as Justice Minister (1993–1997), Health Minister (1997–2002) and Minister of Industry and Infrastructure (2002-03).
1947Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (born 1890)[†]
Gunnar Sommerfeldt was a Danish actor and film maker.
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Warning that the world has divided into two great camps of dictatorships and democracies, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told the American Legion yesterday that the friends of freedom everywhere must stand staunchly in its support, or its foes would eliminate freedom from the earth.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The State Department, out of patience with the breakdown of negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union, today proposed a four-power conference for setting up a united independent Korea.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 29 -Members of the United Nations Special Committee of Inquiry on Palestine said tonight that the committee's report to the United Nations General Assembly would Call for the termination of the British mandate in the Holy Land at the earliest possible moment.
ATHENS, Aug. 29 -- King Paul swore Constantin Tsaldaris into office tonight as Premier with a Cabinet of ten Populists, including himself as Foreign Minister, and one independent.
Successful operation of an atomic power plant of revolutionary design, using for the first time fast, instead of slow, neutrons for liberating nuclear energy from Plutonium at a controlled rate, was announced yesterday by Dr. Norris E. Bradbury, director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory at Los Alamos, N.M., where the atomic bomb was developed.
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Aug. 29 -- Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, turned down today a blueprint for the operation of an international atomic agency. He said it was based on principles that would give the United States a virtual monopoly in the atomic field.
Placing his stamp of legality on the proceedings and giving approval to the findings of the courtmartial, Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, Commandant of the Third Naval District, announced yesterday that Chief Signalman Harold E. Hirshberg had been sentenced to serve ten months in a Naval prison, after which time he is to be dishonorably discharged from the service.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- President Truman virtually completed today the organization of the new national military establishment with the filling of six key posts in the unified defense system, including those involving the National Security Council, National Security Resources Board and the Munitions Board.
BERLIN, Aug 29 -- The United States and British Military Governments in Germany announced today their detailed plan to raise the industrial output of their economically merged zones to virtually the 1936 standard. In addition, the plan called for a IS per cent increase in exports from that area over the 1936 figure and an increase in the German standard of living to approximately 75 per cent of that prevailing in 1936.