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WASHINGTON, Feb. 16--Secretary of State Dean Acheson asserted today that this country's European Allies could be expected roughly to double their combat forces within the next year.
Mrs F D Roosevelt comments on injudicious lrs
labor's walkout on wage controls seen dramatizing resentment over lack of full recognition in mobilization program
Premier Stalin, in one of his rare comments on international affairs, charged that the United States was leading the United Nations into war and the international organization was "burying ...
1951Rashid Minhas, Pakistani soldier and pilot (died 1971)[†]
Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas NH was a Pakistani fighter pilot and the fifth recipient of Pakistan's highest military award, the Nishan-e-Haider. Minhas was the first and only officer from the Pakistan Air Force to receive the Nishan-e-Haider, and was also the youngest person and the shortest-serving officer to have received the award. During a routine training mission in August 1971, Minhas attempted to gain control of his jet trainer when his superior officer Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman BS took control over the plane to join the Bangladesh War of Independence but Minhas resisted his efforts to control the aircraft and crashed it in Sujawal District in Pakistan.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]