Australia is the third-largest contributor, after the US and South Korea, to the Korean War effort.

New Zealanders also fight in Korea.

CIA agents surnamed Downey and Fecteau are captured in 1952 while on a spy mission in China.

Japan regains full sovereignty in 1952.

Gheorghiu-Dej has held several key posts in Romanian government economic planning between 1946 and 1952; strictly adhering to the goals of socialization laid down by Moscow, he has promoted the development of industry.

The Muscovite party leaders, who have been closely identified with Soviet leaders and policies, fall next.

Pauker and Luca had in 1951 celebrated Gheorghiu-Dej as the party's sole leader, but in May 1952 Pauker, Luca, and Georgescu lose their party and government positions.

A month later, Gheorghiu-Dej shunts Groza into a ceremonial position and assumes both the state and party leadership.

The government soon promulgates a new constitution that incorporates complete paragraphs of the Soviet constitution and designates for the PMR a role analogous to that of the CPSU in the Soviet Union—the "leading political force" in the state and society.

The Bulgarian armed forces are officially named the Bulgarian People's Army (BPA) in 1952.

One year after the reconnaissance trip by Grivas, a secret meeting is arranged in Athens to bring together like-minded people in a Cyprus liberation committee.

Makarios chairs the meeting.

Grivas, who sees himself as the sole leader of the movement, once again is disappointed by the more moderate views of the archbishop.

The feelings of uneasiness that arise between the soldier and the cleric will never dissipate.

In the end, the two will become bitter enemies.

Al-Fujayrah becomes the seventh sheikdom of Trucial Oman in 1952; the area is formally under the suzerainty of ash-Shariqah.

In this year, a council of the Trucial States begins to meet semiannually to discuss administrative issues.

The Saudi Arabia-Abu Dhabi border dispute over ownership of the Al-Buraimi oasis,  with no bilateral agreement in place, reaches a peak 1949-52.

Saudi Arabia occupies the oasis of Al-Buraymi in 1952, since the frontier between Saudi Arabia and Oman had never been demarcated and there is the possibility of discovering oil in the area; ...

An Islamist movement in Pakistan, regarded in some quarters as fundamentalist, provides another interpretation of Islam.

Its most significant organization is the Jamaat-i-Islami, which gradually builds up support among the refugees, the urban lower middle-class, and students.

Unlike the traditional ulama, the Islamist movement is the outcome of modern Islamic idealism.

Crucial in the constitutional and political development of Pakistan, it forces politicians to face the question of Islamic identity.

In 1952, the Security of Pakistan Act expands the powers of the government in the interests of public order.