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The first volume of Winston Churchill's memoir, The Second World War, is published.
Graham Greene's novel The Heart of the Matter is published.
Aldous Huxley's novel Ape and Essence is published.
Laurence Olivier stars in a screen version of Hamlet.
Vittorio de Sica's movie The Bicycle Thieves is released.
Belgium grants the right to vote to women.
1 Jan.
The Benelux Customs Union is established.
4 Jan.
Burma becomes an independent nation.
20 Jan.
Gandhi is assassinated.
4 Feb.
Ceylon becomes independent.
25 Feb.
Communists seize control of the Czechoslovakian government. Czech nationalist Jan Masaryk dies on 10 March after falling from a window. Reported as a suicide, his death arouses suspicion in the West.
1 Mar.
British and American authorities establish a central bank to serve their occupation zones of Germany.
17 Mar.
France, the United Kingdom, and the Benelux countries sign the Brussels Pact, a fifty-year military alliance.
3 Apr.
The U.S. Congress appropriates $6 billion...
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