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LONDON, July 4 -- Yugoslavia has invited all Communist parties to attend the fifth congress of Yugoslavia's Communist party in Belgrade July 21, Tanjug, the official Yugoslav news agency, said tonight. It was felt that Yugoslavia had thus set the stage for an Eastern European showdown on her policies.
US delays bilateral pact with western zones
Bernadotte peace plan made pub; includes 2-yr free immigration for Jews, Arab area merger with Trans-Jordan and other area changes; he says plan is merely basis for further talks; Israeli Cabinet sets conf; rejection seen
ASBURY PARK, N.J., July 4 -Frank Hague, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, addressing a hastily summoned meeting of the state's delegates and alternates to the national convention, withdrew today his recent endorsement of President Truman as the Democratic candidate and urged the drafting of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
pact ratified by UMW scale com; effective July 16; $1-a-day pay rise, 10 to 20c a ton tonnage royalties for UMW health and welfare fund and other benefits noted; Kennedy comments; Lewis illus signing pact
1948Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author (born 1888)[â ]
Louis Ămile ClĂ©ment Georges Bernanos was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. A Catholic with monarchist leanings, he was critical of elitist thought and was opposed to what he identified as defeatism. He believed this had led to France's defeat and eventual occupation by Germany in 1940 during World War II. His two best-known novels Sous le soleil de Satan (1926) and the Journal d'un curĂ© de campagne (1936) both revolve around a parish priest who combats evil and despair in the world. Most of his novels have been translated into English and frequently published in both Great Britain and the United States.
1948Carole Landis, American actress (born 1919)[â ]
Carole Landis was an American actress. She worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C. from United Artists. She was known as "The Ping Girl" and "The Chest" because of her curvy figure.
1948Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (born 1871)[â ]
Petrus Josephus Mattheus "Piet" Aalberse Sr. was a Dutch politician of the General League of Roman Catholic Electoral Associations, later the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later co-founder of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and jurist. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 31 December 1934.
1948National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.[â ]
The National Health Service (NHS) is the collective term for the four separate publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care which was created separately and is often referred to locally as "the NHS". The original systems were established in 1948 as part of major social reforms following the Second World War, and officially launched at Park Hospital in Davyhulme, near Manchester, England. The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, provided without charge for residents of the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care, though NHS patients in England who are not exempt have to pay prescription charges.