Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 1]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JAN. 1]

1955

Describes and shows leading world events and personalities of the year 1954. Personalities: Vyacheslav Molotov, Pres. Eisenhower, sir Anthony Eden Sir. Winston Churchill, John Foster Dulles, Pierre Mendes-France, and Gen. De Castries Shows trenches and combat scenes in the Indo-Chinese War; refugees fleeing in Indo-China; the Fr. Assembly voting confidence in the administration's actions in Indo-China; Soviet army maneuvers; the signing of the Manila South-east Asian Security Pact; and scenes of the Guatemalan revolution. Describes trouble spots of the world and the agreement to admit West Germany to NATO.

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