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Sir B N Rau conf with Wu on settlement; believes Peiping wants peace; US reptdly agrees to delay Assembly action while Peiping studies conf
Allotment checks to go out Dec 4 and 15; furloughs granted to reservists reptg over holidays
Truman message to Cong on crisis charges Chinese assault free world to further USSR imperialism; warns of world war; holds negotiation still possible; conf with top advisers and Cong leaders
MacArthur int by US News and World Rept (pub); says ban on attacks against Manchuria hampered UN forces; some US sources blame US, not UN, for ban
Named to Govt shipping advisory com
1950John Wesley Ryles, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
John Wesley Ryles is an American country music artist. Ryles recorded a string of hit country songs, beginning in 1968 when he was still a teenager, and continuing through the 1980s. He no longer records as a headline artist but remains active in the music industry as a session musician.
1950Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian political scientist and academic[†]
Amin Saikal, is emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, and Founding Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, at the Australian National University. He is also adjunct professor of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. Professor Saikal has specialised in the politics, history, political economy and international relations of the Middle East and Central Asia. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, Indiana University, Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Zayed University, and visiting fellow at Cambridge University and the Institute of Development Studies, as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in International Relations (1983–1988). He is a member of many national and international academic organisations.
1950Benjamin Stora, Algerian-French historian and author[†]
Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds two PhDs and a Doctorate of the State (1991).
1950Paul Watson, Canadian activist, founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society[†]
Paul Franklin Watson is a Canadian-American environmental, conservation and animal rights activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation activism. The tactics used by Sea Shepherd have attracted opposition, with the group accused of eco-terrorism by both the Japanese government and Greenpeace. Watson is a citizen of Canada and the United States.
1950Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist and composer (born 1917)[†]
Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from effects related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy. He composed few works, all of which demonstrated a strong influence from Hungarian composer Béla Bartok.
1950Korean War: The Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River ends with a decisive Chinese victory and UN forces are completely expelled from North Korea.[†]
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[†]