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Britain ends the rationing of bread.
Aug.
Soviet scientists who disagree with the environmental evolutionary theories of geneticist T. D. Lysenko are purged from the Russian scientific establishment.
15 Aug.
South Korea formally proclaims itself the Democratic Republic of Korea.
22 Aug.
In Amsterdam 147 Protestant and Orthodox denominations from forty-four countries found the World Council of Churches.
12 Nov.
An American military tribunal finds Tojo and six other Japanese defendants guilty of war crimes and sentences them to death. They are executed on 23 December.
27 Dec.
Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty is arrested by the Communist government of Hungary on charges that he had furnished western powers with information about Soviet-Hungarian relations and urged western intervention in Hungary. On 8 February 1949 he is sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason.
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