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Indus ready for quick war mobilization
Sec Strachey (GB) scores Schuman plan as Eur capitalist plot to bar nationalization of basic industries, s; urges pool include Commonwealth and US; sets other conditions for Brit participation
traffic jams called worst in history
1950Lynne Brindley, English librarian and academic[†]
Dame Lynne Janie Brindley is the former Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, a post she held until June 2020. Prior to this appointment she was a professional librarian, and served as the first female chief executive of the British Library, the United Kingdom's national library, from 2000 to 2012.
1950Jon Trickett, English politician[†]
Jon Hedley Trickett is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton and Hemsworth, previously Hemsworth, since 1996. He was Shadow Lord President of the Council from 2016 to 2020 and served as Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2011 to 2013 and 2017 to 2020. He was the Labour Party National Campaign Coordinator under Jeremy Corbyn from 2015 to 2017.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]