International Zone: 18th Year Part 1 of 2

International Zone: 18th Year Part 1 of 2 United Nations lighted at night w/ traffic past. Story of the 18th year since San Francisco and end of WWII. tilt down lighted building. 22:00:34 title. International Zone w/ Alistair Cooke. Cooke sitting in office by globe talking about UN embroiled in Congo. 22:01:23 UN soldiers in Katanga; rebels destroyed river bridge and supplies carried across. Tshombe meeting UN reps in Elisabethville in mid January & signed agreement to allow UN in. 22:02:20 Cooke speaks of cost to UN financially & militarily. U-Thant talks to General Assembly on possibility of bankrupt UN. USSR & France said they wouldn’t pay as it was authorized by General Assembly rather than Security Council. U Thant explains. 22:04:51 February, Geneva exterior & interior, scientists meeting to discuss how to break poverty problem & beginning of 10 year attack on poverty. Italian President of UN Scientific Conference speaks. 22:06:17 Starving & poor children & farmers. Grain loading into ships. Enormous large warehouse of sacks of grain. 1963 Washington DC World Food Conference in Washington w/ Krishnan of India speaking. 22:07:46 Cooke explains pricing of food commodities & UN attempts to stabilize. 22:08:45 Phillip ?? chief economist of UN explains problems to be addressed in UN conference. Trade of manufactured goods to be important in future. 22:10:24 Delegates standing in honor of Pope John at time of his death. Cardinal speaking a few weeks earlier at presentation to UN of 11Apr63 Encyclical Pacem in Terris from Pope John. 22:11:18 U Thant responding. Fate of mankind hangs in balance of nuclear devastation. Continued... Peace Keeping Mission; 1963; International Organizations;