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Capt F Ronne named to command post US hopes to place, late '56, on Bowman Peninsula or Gardner Inlet; post is 1 of 6 planned by US for Geophysical Yr; map; comment on former Ronne Antarctic expeditions
Amb Elath criticizes Lloyd statement, London press conf; holds Arabs widen lead; compares shipment of Brit, French and USSR bloc heavy arms to Egypt with those Israel got from GB and France; Brit admit Arab lead in some categories; stress Brit policy is to prevent arms race, not preserve balance of force
Hagerty indicates Pres may hold news conf before leaving Gettysburg; are rept his convalescence steady; Ravdin 'very pleased'; Maj Eisenhower, wife arrive
Antique platter and a pair of candelabra, stolen from Brit Legation in Warsaw after '39, recovered, NYC, from gallery of dealer J J Klejman who had bought them in NYC from an individual; items were from collection bequeathed to legation by H T Beresford-Hope in '17; other pieces from collection previously recovered by GB; items illus
WASHINGTON, July 6--A $4,014,000,000 authorization for the Eisenhower Administration's foreign aid program was recommended today by Senate and House conferees.
1956Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (born 1886)[â ]
Gottfried Benn was a German poet, essayist, and physician. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. He was awarded the Georg BĂźchner Prize in 1951.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[â ]