HISTORICAL DATA-1948:









  •  JANUARY:    At about this time the Czechoslovak Communist Party leadership feels that it is necessary to "mobilise the masses" for an expected conflict with "reactionary powers".  (SOURCE:  "Slavonic Studies Level 1 Moduel 1A  CZECH HISTORY THE COMMUNIST TAKEOVER. STALINISM IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA"  Department of Slavonic Studies-Dr. Jan Culik  ((2000)), University of Glasgow at website: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Ss1Aczhist.htm  accessed 1/3/2014-GD).

  •  FEBRUARY:    At about this time (early February, 1948) Czechoslovak Interior Minister Vaclav Nosek makes certain changes in the command structure of the federal police forces in order to maintain full control of the situation in the capital city of Prague. However, the government authorities overrule his changes on February 13, but Nosek refuses to acknowledge their decision, setting up a constitutional crisis. This was followed, on February 17, by a plan for the resignation of the national socialist, people's party and the democratic party ministers in protest at Nosek's defiance. These ministers were hoping to be joined by the ministers from the social democratic party.  At this time, though, the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia has control of the trade unions, the police, the information media-and they are supported by the Soviet Union. The main hope for change entertained by the non-communist ministers is that President Eduard Benes will call for an early election, or that he would at the least reject their resignations and defy the Communists, but this hope is in vain. On February 20, therefore, the non-communist ministers go through with their plan to resign; the Communist government counters this move on the 21st by offering their own ministers to take over the vacated positions. Mass demonstrations and the threat  of an all-out civil war soon follow, but President Benes capitulates to the power of the Communists and accepts their demands on February 25, naming a government with nearly all Communist members. The non-communist ministers receive no help from America, Great Britain, nor from the other Western allies, and the communist control of the country becomes a fait accompli.  (SOURCE:  "Slavonic Studies Level 1 Moduel 1A CZECH HISTORY THE COMMUNIST TAKEOVER. STALINISM IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA" Department of Slavonic Studies-Dr. Jan Culik ((2000)), University of Glasgow at website: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Ss1Aczhist.htm  accessed 1/3/2014-GD).   

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  • JUNE:    On June 23 of this year the Air Force Security Group is established in the Directorate of Intelligence at Headquarters United States Air Force in the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. This new Group has the mission of carrying out the cryptologic and communications security activities of the Air Force.  (SOURCE:  A Continuing Legacy: USAFSS to AIA--by Dr. Dennis F. Casey and MSgt Gabriel G. Marshall--Air Intelligence Agency History Office, San Antonio, Texas ((no date)) pg. 1).

  • JUNE (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    By about this time  the United States Army has only ten Regulary Army divisions on active duty, and only one of these is organized as a full armored division (2d Armored Division).  (SOURCE: See U.S. Army military history website here:)

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  •  (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year the book, "The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson", by D. J. Boorstin, is published.  (Source:  The American Nation...to 1877-Second Edition ((Paperback)), John A. Garraty-Supplementary Reading List, pg. 227).

  • (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year Dumas Malone begins publishing his biography of Thomas Jefferson.  (Source:    The American Nation...to 1877-Second Edition ((Paperback)), John A. Garraty-Supplementary Reading List, pg. 227).      

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