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December 23, 1952

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Headlines from December 23, 1952

PEARSON SURE U. N. WILL OBTAIN TRUCE; Head of Assembly Gives Views as Session, in Closing Action, Rebuffs Soviet on P. O. W.'s All-Night Soviet Forensics in U. N. Lull a Communist Delegation PEARSON SURE U. N. WILL OBTAIN TRUCE

By Thomas J. Hamiltonspecial To the New York Times

Assembly, 45-5, rejects USSR resolution; Asian-Arab bloc abstains; India, GB, Ethiopia and Israel urge probe; Gross explains incident; repts probe in progress; Gromyko charges US shipped 1,500 POWs to US for atomic experiments, committed other atrocities

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Notable Births

Bill Kristol

1952William Kristol, American journalist, publisher, activist, and pundit[†]

William Kristol is an American neoconservative writer. A frequent commentator on several networks including CNN, he was the founder and editor-at-large of the political magazine The Weekly Standard. Kristol is editor-at-large of the center-right publication The Bulwark and is among the editors of its Substack publication that bears the same name. Since 2014, he has been the host of Conversations with Bill Kristol, an interview web program.

Historical Context for December 23, 1952

In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]