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Marshal Juin (France) reptdly says US makes UN ridiculous in Korea; says he was misquoted; summoned to conf with Premier Pinay; Pinay says Juin statement was distorted
Sen Lodge calls press assn polls incomplete
Maj Gen Hamson believes Lt Gen Nam Il statement at truce talks on 'dangerous steps which threaten to extend war' refers to power plant bombing
House adopts Jones amendment to Defense Production Act removing wage controls from indus
96.5, record June 25; chart
1952Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2023)[†]
Gordon McQueen was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre-back for St Mirren, Leeds United and Manchester United, in addition to the Scotland national team.
1952Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights activist (died 1979)[†]
Olive Elaine Morris was a Jamaican-born British-based community leader and activist in the feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s. At the age of 17, she claimed she was assaulted by Metropolitan Police officers following an incident involving a Nigerian diplomat in Brixton, South London. She joined the British Black Panthers, becoming a Marxist–Leninist communist and a radical feminist. She squatted buildings on Railton Road in Brixton; one hosted Sabarr Books and later became the 121 Centre, another was used as offices by the Race Today collective. Morris became a key organiser in the Black Women's Movement in the United Kingdom, co-founding the Brixton Black Women's Group and the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in London.
1952Simon Mann, British military officer and mercenary (died 2025)[†]
Simon Francis Mann was a British officer in the Special Air Service (SAS), and later a mercenary. He trained to be an officer at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Scots Guards. He later became a member of the SAS, and on leaving the military, he co-founded Sandline International with fellow ex-Scots Guards colonel Tim Spicer in 1996. Sandline operated mostly in Angola and Sierra Leone, but public protests against a contract with the government of Papua New Guinea led to the resignation of the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, in what became known as the Sandline affair.
1952The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.[†]
The Labour Party of Malaya was a left-wing political party in the Federation of Malaya and later Malaysia, active from 1952 to 1972. It originated as a confederation of state-based labour parties under the name Pan-Malayan Labour Party (PMLP). As a component of the Malayan Peoples' Socialist Front, the party reached its electoral peak in 1959, but its influence rapidly declined after most of its leadership was detained for political reasons.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]