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...dissension. On the Siamese side of the Laos border there are already some 50,000 pro-Communist Chinese and Vietnamese rebels, organized and trained by Chinese and Viet Minh agents. They sit astride the traditional opium-smuggling routes, and are believed to have accumulated stocks of modern arms. Field Marshal Phibun Songgram's border guards find it prudent not to trouble them. Former Premier Pridhi Panomyong has long been under Red Chinese tutelage in Peking...
...London County Council revealed a gift from recent Visitor Marshal Tito: $2,800 to be spent on trousseaus for deserving London war orphans...
...London, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck opened an exhibition of papers belonging to Panzer General Erwin Rommel, his late World War II opponent in the western desert. Rommel, said Sir Claude, "was a man to be respected because he was a very good soldier, not because he gave us a lot of trouble...
William W. Remington, 35, former Commerce Department economist convicted of perjury in denying that he had passed secrets to the Communist Party, reported to the U.S. Marshal's office in Manhattan to begin his three-year prison sentence...
Died. Hugo Sperrle, 68, German field marshal who directed the 1940 aerial blitz of London; in Munich. Massive, monocled and elaborately uniformed, Sperrle flashed almost as many medals as his boss Reich Marshal Hermann Goring. He helped organize the Luftwaffe, probably did as much as any man in setting the pattern for aerial combat in World War II. Judged not guilty of war crimes and "non-concerned" about Naziism, he lived out his days quietly in Landsberg...