March 21, 1952
-A tornado ripping across Arkansas and parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, and Missouri took the lives of at least 233 and injured over 1100 persons.
-Ending his twelfth and last day of testimony before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee, Professor Owen Lattimore was accused of having given "significant untruths" during cross-examination.

March 23, 1952
-The Communists bitterly reiterated their accusations against the Allies of using germ warfare and subjecting prisoners of war to germ warfare tests.
-President Truman allotted $4,300,000 for the program of aid to persons escaping from behind the Iron Curtain.

March 24, 1952
-Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson declared that the Wage Stabilization Board's recommendations for pay increases in the steel industry would pose a "serious threat" to efforts to stabilize the economy.
-President Truman urged Congress to approve a program to admit 300,000 European refugees into this country in the next three years.
-Mass rallies in Johannesburg, South Africa, demanded the resignation of Prime minister Malan.

March 25, 1952
-United Nations and Communist truce negotiators in Korea commenced secret talks on the problems of prisoner exchange.
-The United States, Britain, and France turned down Soviet proposals for a German peace treaty based on Germany's armed neutrality, giving as their conditions for a treaty the unification of Germany after free elections, rejection of a "national" army, and the freedom of Germany to join NATO and conduct its own foreign affairs.
-John Foster Dulles resigned as advisor to the State Department in order to be free to engage in Republican politics.
-Anti-American riots in Rome, Naples, and other Italian cities broke out over the Trieste issue.

March 26, 1952
-The French arrested Premier Chenik of Tunisia and three Nationalist ministers and declared martial law in Tunisia.
the Federal Reserve Board, by a vote of 3 to 3, ordered the dissolution of -Giannini's banking empire.
-Sen. McCarthy of Wisconsin filed a libel suit for $2,000,000 against Sen. William Benton of Connecticut.
-Governor Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois said he had informed President Truman he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination.

March 27, 1952
-The Office of Price Stabilization ordered all eating and drinking places to post ceiling prices for meals and beverages.

March 28, 1952
-The Bey of Tunis, bowing to French pressure, disavowed his Nationalist advisers and named a new pro-French premier.