Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS. [SEPT. 27]

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS. [SEPT. 27]

1947

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/99227

Part 1, Russian delegate Vichinsky, speaking to the U.N. Gen. Assembly, accuses the U.S. of warmongering. Sen. McMahon and George H. Earle (former Amb. to Bulgaria) answer the charges. Part 2, funeral services are held for ex-Mayor LaGuardia in New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Flashbacks show events in his career. Part 3, Pres. Truman and his wife and daughter debark from the yacht Williamsburg in Washington, D.C. Shows the Truman family aboard the battleship Missouri. The Pres. leads newsmen in calisthenics. Part 4, shows rioting crowds and corpses near Delhi and Punjab, India. Gov. Gen. Mountbatten and Mahatma Gandhi urge Moslems and Hindus to end the violence.

eng, Latn

National Archives at College Park

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6514998

National Archives at College Park

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6776605 (person)

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ch0ffm (person)

Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia; December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives and served as the 99th Mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945. Known for his irascible, energetic, and charismatic personality and diminutive stature, La Guardia is acclaimed as one of the greatest mayors in American history. Though a Republican, La Guardia was frequently cross-endorsed by other part...

Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten, Earl, 1900-1979

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60297cr (person)

1916 midshipman; 1918 1st lieutenant; 1932 commander; 1942 chief of combined operations; 1942 acting vice-admiral; 1943 acting admiral and supreme commander designate, south east Asia; 1946 rear-admiral; 1947 Viceroy of India; 1947-1948 Govenor-general of India; 1949 vice-admiral; 1950 4th sea lord of the Admiralty; 1954 1st sea lord of the Admiralty; 1956 admiral of the fleet; 1959-1965 chief of defense staff; 1965 Governor of the Isle of Wight. Honours: 1920 MVO; 1922...

Vyshinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich, 1883-1954

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bc5cr1 (person)