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December 26, 1952

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Headlines from December 26, 1952

Welfare Gifts Lag in City, Voluntary Agencies Report; VOLUNTARY GROUPS SEE GIFT SHORTAGE

By Peter Kihss

voluntary agencies face lagging gifts and rising costs; tables; Govt role increases; some agency and fund drive reorgn mapped

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MIG'S THRUST SOUTH BUT SHUN BATTLES; U.S. Sabres Bag at Least 1 Red Jet of Big Flight Striking Toward Korean Front MIG'S STAB SOUTH BUT SHUN BATTLES

By By. Lindesay Parrottspecial To the New York Times

Xmas cease-fire fails to develop; patrols clash, W and central fronts; NKs repulsed, N of Punchbowl; 8th Army repts heavy Chinese losses in T-bone Hill fighting earlier in wk

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CHRISTMAS MOVES WORLD TO PRAYER FOR ENDING OF WAR; Leaders of Nations and Faiths Are Joined in Supplication on Battlefront, in Homes A DAY OF KINDNESS HERE Churches of City Are Filled and Feasting Is Shared -- Highway Deaths Rising Over Country CHRISTMAS MOVES WORLD TO PRAYER

By Meyer Berger

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Chiang Assails Countries in West That 'Kicked Us' When Reds Won; WEST AND SOVIET SCORED BY CHIANG

By the Associated Press

Chiang Kai-shek says some 14 nations fight Communists without defeating them; seen replying to criticism of Nationalist China over defeat by Communists

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Envoys in Moscow Hopeful For a New Korea Approach; But They Are Wary About Predicting Any Actual Progress -- Radio in Soviet Gives Stalin Statement Great Prominence ENVOYS IN MOSCOW HOPEFUL BUT WARY

By Harrison E. Salisburyspecial To the New York Times

Moscow diplomatic circles cautiously hopeful; USSR bloc radios publicize Stalin bid

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Historical Context for December 26, 1952

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