Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 28]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 28]

1948

Part 1, Pres. Gottwald and others watch Czech. women gymnasts in Prague Stadium. Part 2 shows the ruins of Vanport, Ore., after a Columbia R. flood; people salvaging belongings; and a refugee camp near Portland. Part 3, a dog is reunited with its master. Part 4, U.S. planes land supplies in Russ.-blockaded Berlin. Gen. Clay deplanes in Wash., D.C., is greeted by Gen. Bradley and Army Sec. Royall, and confers at the White House with Pres. Truman and Secs. Marshall and Sullivan. Several U.S. Communists are arraigned in N.Y.C.'s Federal Court Bldg. Gen. Hershey explains draft provisions. U.S. B-29 airplanes land in Great Britain.

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