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In Marshall Plan Areas In the two key countries of western Europe the Communist parties are strong. CP membership in France is 1,300,000; in Italy, 2,200,000. Though the Communists have been excluded from the French and Italian Cabinets their moves have a deep effect in both countries.
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While the extent of tariff reductions under the Geneva Conference agreement remain a closely guarded secret, "guesses" among foreign traders here are that they will be deep, and in some cases will perhaps tend to approach the 50 per cent maximum cuts permitted under the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act.
1947Omar Ruiz Hernández, Cuban journalist and activist[†]
Omar Moisés Ruiz Hernández is a Cuban journalist. Amnesty International declared him as an international prisoner of conscience after he was imprisoned in 2003 during a crackdown on dissidents. He worked for dissident press agency Grupo de Trabajo Decoro before sentenced to 18 years in prison.
1947Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (born 1877)[†]
Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata was an Italian businessman and politician.