Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 4]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 4]

1949

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/99401

Part 1, delegates Acheson, Dulles, and Jessup of the U.S., Vichinsky of Russia, and Bevin of Great Britain arrive at Paris Rose Palace for a foreign ministers' conference. Part 2, flashbacks show James Forrestal as Sec. of the Navy and of Defense, and being decorated by Pres. Truman. Part 3, Laredo, Texas, celebrates its anniversary. Mexican troops cross the Rio Grande to assist. A Texas Ranger demonstrates his six-gun. Celebrities ride in a parade. Bill Demarest and Adolph Zukor receive awards at a luncheon in Dallas, Texas. Part 4 shows the "Mr. America" contest in Cleveland, Ohio. Part 5 shows a running race in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Part 6, Jack Dempsey referees a wrestling match in Montreal, Can.

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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976

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Vyshinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich, 1883-1954

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Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951

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Bevin was a British labor leader and politician. He served as the British Minister of Labour (1940-1945) and as Foreign Secretary (1945-1951). Rosita Forbes (1893?-1967) was the consumate traveler in and writer on north Africa, the Middle East and western Asia. From the description of [Letter] 1945 Nov. 27, Foreign Office, S.W. 1 [to] Rosita Forbes / Ernest Bevin. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 166268415 1892-1894 farm labourer, Chaffcombe farm, then Beers...

Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959

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John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), was the fifty-third Secretary of State of the United States for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He had a long and distinguished public career with significant impact upon the formulation of United States foreign policies. He was especially involved with efforts to establish world peace after World War I, the role of the United States in world governance, and Cold War relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Dulles was born on February 25, 1888 ...