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recounts attempted entry into Trieste of 1,000 Yugoslav troops; cites previous talks with Yugoslav Gen Letitch and role of US Lt Ochs
accepts 16-nation rept on Marshall Plan needs; lauds Paris conf for meeting US wishes
wartime role with Lend-Lease in London revd in J G Winant article
Aranha stresses peace tasks
1947Tessa Jowell, English social worker and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office (died 2018)[†]
Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood, previously Dulwich, from 1992 to 2015.
1947Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian, critic, and publisher[†]
Enrique Krauze Kleinbort is a Mexican historian, essayist, editor, and entrepreneur. He has written more than twenty books, some of which are: Mexico: Biography of Power, Redeemers, and El pueblo soy yo. He has also produced more than 500 television programs and documentaries about Mexico's history. His biographical, historical works, and his political and literary essays, which have reached a broad audience, have made him famous.
1947Gail Carson Levine, American author[†]
Gail Carson Levine is an American author of young adult books. Her first novel, Ella Enchanted, received a Newbery Honor in 1998.
1947Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (died 2000)[†]
Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was an American editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Shoe. After Shoe had been established in papers, MacNelly created the single-panel strip Pluggers. The Wall Street Journal wrote: "MacNelly's superb draftsmanship as well as his heightened sense of the ridiculous is in the vanguard of a new generation of American cartoonists."