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In Defense Of Peace Part 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221102-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940s-1951

Country: France,Germany,Japan,Pacific,United Kingdom,USA

Location: Berlin,Elbe River,IWO JIMA,London,New York City,Nuremburg,Paris,Potsdam,RHEIMS,San Francisco,Tokyo,Yalta

TC Begins: 07:00:05

TC Ends: 07:11:10

Duration: 00:11:05

In Defense Of Peace Part 1 of 2 Rolling title re International Information & Exchange Program & exposing ‘obstructionist’ tactics of USSR. WWII flashback montage: Russian troops advancing; Germans surrendering; Allied forces landing in France on D-Day; Allied leaders at Yalta; meeting of US & Russian troops at Elbe River; aerial views ruins of Berlin & Nazi symbol dynamited from Nuremburg Stadium; Germans surrendering at Rheims; President Truman & Joseph Stalin at Potsdam Conference; US Marines battling on beaches of Pacific islands; flag raising on Iwo Jima; aerial views ruins of Tokyo; & Japanese surrender to MacArthur aboard battleship Missouri - brief MacArthur soundbite “...pray that peace will now be restored to the world...”. Victory celebration shots. 07:06:03 San Francisco - delegates of 50 nations sign documents for creation of United Nations - Truman, Molotov & Gromyko seen arriving. 07:07:05 Returning US troops disembark at US ports & are discharged - some wave or kiss demob papers. Diagram showing reduction in US Armed Forces 1945-47. US bombers destroyed w/ explosives - piles of scrapped vehicles - factories converted to peacetime production. 07:09:27 Gromyko walks out of UN Security Council debate on the Iranian question. US proclaims Marshall Plan in Paris - Churchill et al present. Animated map of Europe w/ Soviet border nations cut off. WWII - Pacific War. Post-WWII Europe. Reconstruction. Economics. Anti-Communism. Cold War.

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