Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 21]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 21]

1948

Part 1, shows ice skating events in Madison Square Garden. Part 2, Communist-led mobs riot around the Pantheon in Rome protesting memorial services for the late King Victor Emmanuel. Part 3, Margaret Truman and the "poster baby" contribute to the March of Dimes Campaign; the little polio victim visits Pres. Truman in the White House. Part 4, shows a closeup of Gen. Claire Chennault and his Chinese bride in Shanghai. Part 5, Gen. Montgomery visits Emperor Haile Selassie In Addis Ababa and joins him in reviewing Ethiopian Army units. Part 6, Thomas K. Finletter, chairman of the Air Policy commission, reads a report to Pres. Truman on U.S. air defenses and aircraft industries.

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