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Visits USA and Britain twice - on the first trip he met with US President
Truman before arriving in Britain on 23 May to ..."explain to the British why import quotas had been imposed and what that meant to the larger Commonwealth community … He met delegations, conferred with trade officials and bankers and - above all - addressed meetings of manufacturers and their tradesmen." June 4: Admission
to the Freedom of the City of London. November 21:
Returns to Britain to attend the London Economic Conference and British
Cabinet meeting with seven participating Commonwealth countries. Returns
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Billy Hughes dies after 58 years continuous service in state and federal
parliaments. He had been Prime Minister during and immediately after World
War I. King George
VI dies on 6 February. Discovery of
high grade uranium ore. Government announces
the two airlines policy. The Melbourne
Argus is the first newspaper in the world to publish colour pictures. Ian Craig, at
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King George VI dies on 6 February. Queen Elizabeth II ascends to the throne
and is crowned on 2 June 1953. "When a sovereign dies, or abdicates, a successor is immediately decided according to rules which were laid down at the end of the seventeenth century." ANZUS Pact comes
into force on 29 April. Greece and Turkey
join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). First production
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