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Govt pub White Book outlining Cominform mil pressure and increasing border incidents; Deputy Min Vejvoda comments
Gromyko warns USSR will not accept agenda not including 'demilitarization' and 'remilitarization' of Ger; accuses West of trying to bury issues; Jessup denies existence of W Ger troops
plan to seize Gov Gen Nazimuddin, Prime Min Liaquat Ali Khan and Cabinet members and set up mil dictatorship foiled by Govt arrest of Maj Gen A Khan and wife, Brigadier M M Latif and Pakistan Times ed F A Faiz
Voted Premier by French Assembly
NYC denies use of its piers to SS Batory; Comr Cavanagh cites security risk; warns pier tenants against sublets
1951Gloria Diaz, Filipino actress and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1969[†]
Gloria Maria Aspillera Diaz is a Filipino actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1969, becoming the first Filipino to hold the Miss Universe title.
1951Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1872)[†]
Baron Kijūrō Shidehara was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1945 to 1946. He was a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]