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| Cold war tensions involved the Soviet restrictions on transport to Berlin and the resulting Berlin blockade and airlift (See July 24). | 1 |
| The World Council of Churches held its organizational meeting in Amsterdam. Representatives of 147 churches in 44 countries attended. | 2 |
| The Olympics in London revived major international athletic competitions after the interruptions caused by World War II. | 3 |
| The publication of Alan Paton's novel Cry, the Beloved Country brought the problem of relations between blacks and whites in South Africa to a worldwide audience. | 4 |
| The murders of Mahatma Gandhi (the Hindu nationalist advocate of nonviolence) in January by a Hindu extremist and Count Folke Bernadotte (the UN mediator in the Arab-Israeli war) in September by a Zionist extremist emphasized the violence accompanying the partitions of Palestine and British India. | 5 |
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| The UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide. | 6 |
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