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Pres Truman intervenes; sends note to Rhee expressing 'shock' at feud with Assembly; reptdly makes no demands; reptdly ordered Muccio to cut short vacation in US; confs with Muccio disclosed
Govt threatens to dismiss civil employes joining strike; Brune comment
loses to Sen Kefauver in SD Dem Pres primary
Cong conf authorizes $6,447,730,750, fiscal '53; approves $4,598,424,500 mil, $1,849,306,250 econ funds; approves $4,698,047,750 Eur mil and defense support, $60,063,250 for Arab refugees and $70,228,000 for Israel refugees; breakdown by other major areas and categories; conf rejects Kem amendment, Point 4 curbs and Ferguson move to have GSA operate procurement in US; rejects earmarking $1 billion for arms procurement Eur; approves modified Dworshak proposal limiting funds for MSA 'propaganda' in US; retains 10% transferrability; directs MSA reimburse Defense Dept for transfer abroad of domestic arms
Gen Eisenhower accepts Nato-Spain link as necessary but deplores need to ally with non-dem nations
1952BronisÅaw Komorowski, Polish historian and politician, 5th President of Poland[â ]
BronisÅaw Maria Komorowski is a Polish politician and historian who was the fifth president of Poland from 2010 to 2015. Komorowski previously served as Minister of National Defence from 2000 to 2001. As Marshal of the Sejm, Komorowski exercised the powers and duties of acting president following the death of President Lech KaczyÅski in a plane crash on 10 April 2010.
1952Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwean author and poet (died 1987)[â ]
Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet. His short career produced a book of stories, two novels, a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry. His first book, a fiction collection entitled The House of Hunger (1978), won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. Marechera was best known for his abrasive, heavily detailed, and self-aware writing, which was considered a new frontier in African literature, and his unorthodox behaviour at the universities from which he was expelled despite excelling in his studies.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[â ]