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Chancellor Adenauer says French-Saar pact shakes his faith in West
USSR seen welcoming UN bid for session; seen rejecting US bid lest US use it for propaganda
Sen Mundt bill to curb Communists approved, Sen com, 8-1, Sen Langer opposing; bill requires Communist party members regis; makes it crime in peace or war for Fed employes to transmit secret data to foreign agents or Communist orgn members; metes punishment for conspiracy in moves contributing to totalitarian dictatorship subject to foreign domination; restricts Communist-front orgns and membership therein, including curbs on Govt appointive employment, elective office and identification of mailed or broadcast material; creates Atty Gen Subversive Activities Control Bd
brownout to continue as coal strike end nears
1950Bernard Vera, French politician[†]
Bernard Vera is a former member of the Senate of France, representing the Essonne department from 2004 to 2011 and from 2016 to 2017. He is a member of the Communist, Republican, and Citizen Group.
1950Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, author, and playwright (born 1868)[†]
Edgar Lee Masters was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology (1915), The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
1950Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (born 1907)[†]
Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent against Nazi Germany for Ukrainian independence. He collaborated with the Nazis from February 1941 to December 1942 as commanding officer of the Nachtigall Battalion in early 1941, and as a Hauptmann of the German Schutzmannschaft 201 auxiliary police battalion in late 1941 and 1942.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]