[b]Notable events of Jan-Mar, 1950[/b][indent]
- The State of Israel claims Jerusalem as its capitol, despite the occupation of that city by Jordanian forces.

- Senator Joseph McCarthy claims to know of two hundred and five current and former communist party members working in the United States Department of State in a speech in West Virginia.

- Czechoslovakia announces a bold new plan to promote industry within its borders.

- Soviet military aid pouring into the Korean penninsula.

- Swedish Actress Ingrid Bergman gives birth to child fathered by Roberto Rossellini; both parents are married to others. Many theaters in the United States are refusing to run the film Stromboli in protest.

- French authorities in Indochina have invited Emperor Bao Dai back to Vietnam and given him the titles of premier and emperor, but the Viet Minh communist insurgency under Ho Chi Minh remains strong.

- Chiang Kai-shek is re-elected president of the Republic of China.

- Five simultaneous attacks launched by Hukbalahap rebels in the Philippines; numbers thought to exceed 15,000 fighters.

- Catholic Church property confiscated by Poland.

- People's Liberation Army forces land on Hainan Island in small numbers, apparently probing the Kuomintang garrison.[/indent]