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Hungary to free R A Vogeler, held in jail as spy for 17 mos, in exch for granting of 'just claims' by US; nature of claims unrevealed; case revd; imprisoned Brit natl E Sanders seen unaffected; Vogeler por
UN delegates comment; recall India's warning 18 days before conf that China would intervene if UN forces crossed 38th Parallel; Western delegates link intervention to Allied push to Yalu River
Defense Dept repts mil advisory group will leave for Formosa; move reptdly not spurred by MacArthur s
MacArthur replies; hints responsibility for anticipating Chinese intervention rested with US Govt; says no stenographic notes were taken and that part of conf was between himself and Truman with no one else present
MacArthur replies
1951Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (born 1870)[†]
Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants.
1951Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.[†]
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 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]
