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WASHINGTON, April 28-- Secretary of State Dulles will do more listening than proposing when the North Atlantic Council attempts in Paris next week to endow the military alliance with a new meaning and a broader role.
WASHINGTON, April 28-- Administration sources disclosed today an advanced-weapons program to put allied forces on essentially the same armament footing as United States forces.
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ICA Eur operations dir Van Dyke repts USSR bloc has offered nearly $300 million in loans and credits to bring Yugoslavia back into bloc, US House com; amt of US aid compared
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1956Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (born 1876)[†]
Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb was a German Generalfeldmarschall of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes. Leeb was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Max Joseph which granted him the title of nobility. During the Battle of France, he commanded Army Group C, responsible for the breakthrough of the Maginot Line.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]