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February 5, 1949

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Headlines from February 5, 1949

CARDINAL RETRACTS PRE-TRIAL LETTER AND DENIES DURESS; Mindszenty Says He Did Not See Certain Things Then as He Sees Them Now U.S. PROTESTS TO HUNGARY Contests Bar on Observers -- Vienna Circles Assert the Prelate Is Under Drugs CARDINAL RESCINDS PRE-TRIAL DENIAL

By the United Press

Mindszenty retracts pre-trial lr discrediting future confession; denies duress; other defendants' pleas cited; Prince Esterhazy admits currency speculation; Chapin denies offering to aid Mindszenty escape; illus

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Greek Reds Relieve Markos; Athens Says He May Be Dead; Greek Reds Relieve Markos of Posts; Athens Says That He May Be Dead

By the Associated Press

Govt wins confidence vote; Parliament recesses until June 1

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TAFT CLAIMS MOST OF HIS LABOR LAW WILL BE RETAINED; Instead of Substituting Wagner Act, He Sees Present Statute Undergoing Amendment CLASH ENLIVENS HEARING AFL Official Tells Senator 'Boys in Ohio' Will Defeat Him in 1950 Election By LOUIS STARK LABOR BILL GAINS CLAIMED BY TAFT

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

L M Herrmann sees Sen Taft defeat in '50

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700,000 MORE IDLE, 57,500,000 AT WORK; 'TREND' DISCOUNTED; Labor Force Down 2,000,000 in January as Others Quit Places Permanently SLACKENING NOTED IN RATE Grains Plummet to Seasonal Lows in Chicago -- More Food Prices Are Cut 700,000 MORE IDLE; 'TREND' DISCOUNTED

By Anthony Levierospecial To the New York Times

Dr E G Nourse sees no decrease trend

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By Winston Churchill: The Second World War; Volume II -- Their Finest Hour Book I -- The Fall of France INSTALLMENT 2: THE BATTLE OF FRANCE By Winston Churchill: The Second World War Volume II -- Their Finest Hour INSTALLMENT 2THE BATTLE OF FRANCE Book I -- The Fall of France Plan "D"--The German Order of Battle--French and British Advance Through Belgium--Holland ' Overrun- The Belgium Problem--'Accepted Primacy of France in the Military Art--The Gap in the _Srdennes--Brltish Difficulties During the . Twilight War Phase--Progress 'of Plan "'.D"--Bad News of 13th and 14th--Kleist's. Group of'Armies : Break the French Front/--Heavy British .'2gir Losses. ---Our Final Limit for Home Defense--,Reynaud: Telephones Me Morning of 15th--Destructi0n of the' French Ninth Army Opp0site.the Ardennes'Gap-- "Cease Fire" in Holland--I Fly to Paris--Meeting at the Quai d'Orsay--General Gamelin's StatementNo Strategic Reserve: "Aucune" Proposed Attacks on the German Bulge--French Demands for More British Fighter Squadrons--My T, elegram to the Cabinet on the Night of

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1949Kurt Beck, German politician^[†]

Kurt Beck is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who served as the 7th Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1994 to 2013 and as the 55th President of the Bundesrat in 2000–01. In May 2006, he succeeded Matthias Platzeck as chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). He resigned from that post in September 2008.

1949Maidarjavyn Ganzorig, Mongolian cosmonaut and academic (died 2021)^[†]

Maidarjavyn Ganzorig was a Mongolian cosmonaut and academic.

1949Yvon Vallières, Canadian educator and politician^[†]

Yvon Vallières is a retired Canadian politician and teacher. He was a member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Richmond in the Estrie region from 1973 to 1976 and from 1981 to 2012. Formerly the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 2003 to 2007, he is the current chair of the Government Caucus. He was a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Headlines from February 5, 1949

CARDINAL RETRACTS PRE-TRIAL LETTER AND DENIES DURESS; Mindszenty Says He Did Not See Certain Things Then as He Sees Them Now U.S. PROTESTS TO HUNGARY Contests Bar on Observers -- Vienna Circles Assert the Prelate Is Under Drugs CARDINAL RESCINDS PRE-TRIAL DENIAL

Greek Reds Relieve Markos; Athens Says He May Be Dead; Greek Reds Relieve Markos of Posts; Athens Says That He May Be Dead

TAFT CLAIMS MOST OF HIS LABOR LAW WILL BE RETAINED; Instead of Substituting Wagner Act, He Sees Present Statute Undergoing Amendment CLASH ENLIVENS HEARING AFL Official Tells Senator 'Boys in Ohio' Will Defeat Him in 1950 Election By LOUIS STARK LABOR BILL GAINS CLAIMED BY TAFT

700,000 MORE IDLE, 57,500,000 AT WORK; 'TREND' DISCOUNTED; Labor Force Down 2,000,000 in January as Others Quit Places Permanently SLACKENING NOTED IN RATE Grains Plummet to Seasonal Lows in Chicago -- More Food Prices Are Cut 700,000 MORE IDLE; 'TREND' DISCOUNTED

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