Records of the U.S. Information Agency. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities . 1982 - 1999. THE UNITED NATIONS AND WORLD DISPUTES

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Records of the U.S. Information Agency. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities . 1982 - 1999. THE UNITED NATIONS AND WORLD DISPUTES

1950

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Documentary: Shows how the United Nations attempted to resolve disputes in four countries which have threatened world peace since 1945. R.1. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin agree in Yalta to establish the U.N. Harry Truman, and Vyacheslav Molotov sign the U.N. charter in San Francisco. The U.N. mediates Indonesian independence from the Netherlands. Queen Juliana signs the agreement in the Hague. Mohandas Gandhi, Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Pandit Nehru agree on the partition of India and Pakistan; fighting erupts in the Junagadh and Kashmir states; Nehru and Liaquat Ali Kahn of Pakistan discuss the Kashmir problem. R.2. Count Folke Bernadotte, U.N. mediator on the Palestine truce talks, is assassinated and replaced by Ralph Bunche who negotiates an Israeli-Trans Jordan armistice; Israel is admitted to the U.N. Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads U.N. forces in Korea; Jacob Malik, Soviet chairman of the Security Council, stalls all actions on Korea. American Amb. Warren Austin denounces Soviet intervention and manipulation of North Korea.

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