Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

After the war, CMF units continued to form the bulk of the peacetime army, although the creation of standing infantry units — such as the Royal Australian Regiment — from 1947, meant that the regular army grew in importance.

Williams kept pocket-sized diaries for 1942 and 1947 ( he kept no diaries for 1943 to 1946 as he was touring the Far East in the army ); a desk diary for 1948 ; pocket-sized diaries for 1949 and 1950 ; desk diaries for 1951 to 1965 ; standard edition desk diaries for 1966 to 1971, and finally A4-sized executive desk diaries for 1972 to 1988.

The establishment of the Palmach underground army in 1942 which won the yishuv crucial military struggle against Palestinian Arabs from 30 November 1947 up to 15 May 1948 that made possible the establishment of the Israeli state, was due to efforts by Tabenkin and other Kibbutz Meuchad leaders.

A bright student who counted among his contemporaries in UCD his future political rival, Charles Haughey, who also knew Joan O ' Farrell ( the Liverpool-born daughter of a British army officer, Richard O ' Farrell ) a fellow student, whom FitzGerald married in 1947.

1947 it was renamed to Casernes Ardennes and were used by the Belgian army till 1955.

In the lead-up to the 1948 Palestine War, Husseini opposed both the 1947 UN Partition Plan and King Abdullah's designs to annex the Arab part of British Mandatory Palestine to Jordan, and, failing to gain command of the ' Arab rescue army ' ( jaysh al-inqadh al -' arabi ) formed under the aegis of the Arab League, formed his own militia, al-jihad al-muqaddas.

Among other posts, Grimond was a barrister and publisher in the 1930s, an army major during World War II, Secretary of the National Trust for Scotland from 1947 to 1949, and held the Rectorships of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen and the Chancellorship of the University of Kent at Canterbury ( elected in 1970 ).

* Indo-Pakistani War of 1947: Pakistani backed tribals ( and later its army ) invaded the princely state of Kashmir that acceded to India as per the scheme of accession provided in Indian Independence Act 1947.

Although the head of the military, General Abdullah Atfeh, swore to the Minister of Defense in May 1947, that the Syrian army was " the best of all the Arab armies, the best army in the Middle East ," the brigade commanders scoffed at this ridiculous assessment and cabled the President to warn, that " the army is not worth a red cent.

" The real problem is to reform the Syrian army and to solve the problem of its leadership ," he confided to Taha al-Hashimi in September 1947.

" Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey gave a lengthier explanation for why the Syrian army could not be sent into Palestine in November 1947, and why a volunteer army was needed.

By the summer of 1947, the army required a combat reserve to back up the thinly spread constabulary ; in the following year, the 1st Infantry Division was reconstituted and consolidated, containing three regimental tank companies and a divisional tank battalion.

In 1947, when the territories controlled by the CPC could no longer sustain so many troops, Mao decided to send part of his army to the territories controlled by KMT, in order to relieve the heavy burden on his own territories, and to position enemies at the gates of the KMT.

This is the largest ever exercise conducted by Indian army since 1947.

The National Security Act of 1947, as amended in 1949, split the War Department into the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force, both within the Department of Defense, and the secretary of the army served as an operating manager for the new Secretary of Defense.

Having served in the army from 1947 to 1952, and been widowed, he applied to Balliol College, Oxford where he took his degree.

Vladimir spent 1947 – 1949 with his father ( then an army Major ) and " aunt Zhenya " at a military base in Eberswalde in the Soviet-occupied section of post-World War II Germany ( later East Germany ).

His father was an army reservist and called up as war started ; after the evacuation from Dunkirk he was posted to Africa until 1947 and saw little of his son.

He also attempted to gain the favor of the Garde — renamed the Haitian Army ( Armée d ' Haïti ) in March 1947 — by promoting Lavaud to brigadier general and by seeking United States military assistance.

With a Communist insurgency threatening Greece, and Britain financially unable to continue its aid, the President announced his Truman Doctrine on 12 March 1947, " to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures ", with an aid request for consideration and decision, concerning Greece and Turkey.

The sweeping victory of Messali Hadj's MTLD in the 1947 municipal elections frightened the colons, whose political leaders, through fraud and intimidation, attempted to obtain a result more favorable to them in the following year's first Algerian Assembly voting.

Before a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman stated, “ I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support the people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures .” That summer, Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed a plan for the economic reconstruction of Europe that would further entrench the division.

A plaque, in memory of the 47 lives lost on the S. S. Santampa, capsized and wrecked in heavy seas, and the Mumbles RNLI life boat which attempted rescue on April 23, 1947, is visible at low tide.

Congress investigated Elliott numerous times: for the attempted sale of bombers to the USSR ( 1934 ); for allegations of broadcast industry corruption ( 1937-45 ); for the Blaze affair ( his dog ’ s travel on emergency war priority, 1945 ); for his promotion to general, demanded by his father ( 1945 ); for the Hartford loan scandal ( 1945 ); for his denunciation of U. S. foreign policy during a visit to the USSR ( capped with a visit with Stalin ) ( 1946 ); for the Hughes F-11 purchase ( 1947 ); and for involvement with organized crime and securities fraud in Miami and the Bahamas ( 1973 ).

This was also the aim of the government at the time, which attempted to compel the Australian states to conduct their banking with the Commonwealth under the Banking Act 1945 ( Cth ), but the High Court in Melbourne Corporation v Commonwealth ( 1947 ) 74 CLR 31, blocked this move.

The rigged Polish legislative election of 1947 marked the onset of undisguised Communist rule in Poland ; few independent politicians like Mikołajczyk who attempted to form an opposition were threatened with arrests, retired or emigrated.

Miloš was caught by the Yugoslav police ( on 20 July 1947 ) after the war during an attempted rebellion, put on trial for the crimes he committed during the war, convicted, sentenced to death, and executed in 1948.

The idea of canoeing from Devizes to Westminster was first suggested by Roy Cooke, who had been part of a team who had attempted to canoe along the River Avon from Pewsey, near Devizes, to the sea at Christchurch in 1947.

In 1947 he attempted to scrap the city's cable car system, claiming it was too expensive.

However, once the modern FM band was established, FM was attempted again with WTCN-FM 97. 1 from 1947 to 1954.

From 1945 to 1947 he cooperated with the Provisional Government on National Unity ( Tymczasowy Rząd Jedności Narodowej ), which attempted to bring together the Polish Government in Exile and Soviet-sponsored Polish communist government.

The Stowarzyszenie PAX (" PAX Association ") created in 1947 worked to undermine grassroot support from Roman Catholicism and attempted to create a Communism-friendly Church.

* 1947: Explored Tushuk Tash and discovered Shipton's Arch, attempted Muztagh Ata

In 1947 he attempted Rakaposhi, then made his way to Kashgar to join up with Eric Shipton in a lightweight attempt on Muztagh Ata, 7546 metres, which nearly succeeded.

Between 1947 and 1949 Chifley also attempted to nationalise the banking sector, claiming that public control over the finance industry would assist in preventing further depressions.

Arkus-Duntov attempted to qualify a Talbot-Lago for the Indianapolis 500 in 1946 and 1947.

He unsuccessfully attempted to gain the Premiership upon the retirement of William McKell in 1947 ( though McKell had hoped that Heffron would succeed him ), and again at the departure of James McGirr in 1952.

The western part of the duchy, with the towns of Postojna, Ilirska Bistrica, Idrija and Šturje was annexed to Italy in 1920, but was subsequently also included into Yugoslavia in 1947.

Subsequently Polish expatriates from Polish lands annexed by the Soviet Union as well as Ukrainians and Lemkos from southern Poland, expelled throughout Operation Vistula in 1947, were settled in the southern part of East Prussia, now the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

The community was incorporated as in 1947 and annexed another in 1948.

It annexed land in 1937 and 1947 ( when it acquired Huntleigh Woods ) to reach its current size of.

Because of the 1947 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Jacinto City's territory into its city limits, while Houston annexed surrounding areas that were unincorporated.

In 1945, it came under Yugoslav military administration, and in 1947 it was officially annexed to the People's Republic of Slovenia within the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.

The eastern part of the town of Gorizia, together with the upper Isonzo valley and the main part of Carso, were ceded to Yugoslavia in 1947, while Trieste formed the Free Territory of Trieste, only annexed back by Italy in 1954.

In particular, after the creation of Greece in 1830, the following regions were annexed and still are Greek territory: Ionian Islands ( 1864 ), Thessaly ( 1881 ), southern Macedonia, Crete, southern Epirus and the Eastern Aegean Islands ( 1913 ), Western Thrace ( 1920 ), and the Dodecanese ( 1947 ).

It annexed neighboring Komuro Village on August 10, 1947 and became the city of Itō.

In 1947 much of the Lemko population, living in villages southeast of the town, was deported in Action Vistula ( mostly to land recently annexed from Germany ) in reaction to the nationalist Ukrainian activity in the region.

The term Italian Aegean Islands () is sometimes used to refer to the Aegean islands conquered by Italy during the Italo-Turkish War in 1912 and annexed ( through the Treaty of Lausanne ) from 1923 until 1947: the Dodecanese, including Rhodes and Kastelorizo.

In 1948, Käkisalmi was renamed to Priozersk like names all cities and communities annexed from Finland to Leningrad Oblast 1947.

* Sikkim, where the Maharaja had been under a British protectorate ( 1861 – 15 August 1947 ; the crown representative was styled Political Agent ), became immediately afterwards a protectorate of newly independent India ( formally from 5 December 1950 ; in the meantime the Indian representative was again styled Political Agent, the first incumbent actually being the former British Political Agent — India was a dominion, still under the British crown, till 26 January 1950 ) until 16 May 1975, it was annexed as a constituent state of India.

* 1944 to 1947 & 1951 1. 5 million Poles were deported from the eastern territories annexed by the Soviet Union into the western territories, which Soviets transferred from Germany to Poland.

Named for shipbuilder Winslow Hall, the city of Winslow was incorporated on August 23, 1947 ; on February 28, 1991, the City of Winslow annexed the rest of the island, officially becoming the City of Bainbridge Island, Washington.

In late 1947 and early 1948, South Africa, with Britain's agreement, annexed the islands and installed the meteorological station on Transvaal Cove on the north-east coast of Marion Island.

Idrija was a comune of the Province of Gorizia ( as Idria ), except during the period between 1924 and 1927, when the Province of Gorizia was abolished and annexed to the Province of Udine during Italian rule ( 1918 – 1943, nominally lasted to 1947 ).

* Town of Portlock ( 1947 ?- 1952 ) in Norfolk County was annexed by City of South Norfolk in 1952.

In 1951, after a failed 1947 referendum and two other failed attempts, the state legislature passed a " Plan of Improvement " by which Buckhead, but also vast areas of what is today northwest, southwest, and south Atlanta, were annexed into Atlanta on Jan. 1, 1952.

In 1947, it was annexed to Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and included into the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.