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Truman and MacArthur unlikely to meet
Lts Stressler and Lasky and AVC aide R B Godet, former VA employe, indicted for conspiring to forge VA records to achieve Stressier and Lasky promotion under veterans preference law; Dist Atty Hogan says they paid Godet $600 each and were among group of 27 who paid $200 each for promotion; recipient known
Sec Acheson indirectly calls MacArthur extremist who would risk world war; defends Adm policies, s, Women's Natl Press Club
arrives, Washington; welcomed by Gen Marshall, Vaughan, Joint Cs/S, Gen Wainwright, pol leaders and 12,000 onlookers; Govt agencies, merchants and schools suspend most activities
70,000 school children to see parade
1951Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands[†]
Jóannes Dan Eidesgaard is a former Faroese politician. He was the prime minister of the Faroe Islands from 2004, starting shortly after the general election of 20 January 2004, until 26 September 2008, when a new coalition took office. He served as finance minister from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Danish Folketing representing the Faroe Islands from 11 March 1998 until 20 November 2001.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]