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W Ger Govt repts 1,500 paid agents of East regime in W Ger; activities
dedicated by Pres Truman to world peace; 1st internatl flight leaves; field larger than LaGuardia and Washington Natl; illus
Monnet says French Govt fall will not affect talks; France offers draft treaty, reptdly proposing 6-9 member supra-natl authority and 'common assembly' to make rulings by 2/3 majority vote; critics urge convs on authority functions be annexes to treaty, urge common tariff and oppose all-powerful authority; conf adjourns
Warren, R P: World Enough and Time
1950Marcello Toninelli, Italian author and screenwriter[â ]
Marcello Toninelli is an Italian comics writer, best known as main writer of series of Zagor between 1982 and 1993.
1950Muiris Ă SĂșilleabhĂĄin, Irish police officer and author (born 1904)[â ]
Muiris Ă SĂșilleabhĂĄin, anglicised as Maurice O'Sullivan, was an Irish author famous for his Irish language memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket Island and in Dingle, County Kerry, off the western coast of Ireland. It is his unique published work.
1950The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.[â ]
The Korean War was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations Command (UNC) led by the United States. The conflict was one of the first major proxy wars of the Cold War. Fighting ended in 1953 with an armistice but no peace treaty, leading to the ongoing Korean conflict.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[â ]