PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN ADDRESSES 81ST CONGRESS ON "STATE OF UNION" Part 1

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Summary: Title: "The State of the Union is Strong" HSs, as President approaches rostrum. MS & CU, President speaking. He pleads for repeal of Taft-Hartley Bill, reaffirms his stand on Civil Rights Bill, etc, etc. Cut-ins, members applauding. FS, President Truman leaving auditorium. TRUMAN'S SPEECH ON NATIONAL EMERGENCY AND NATIONAL SECURITY RESOURCES BOARD.: 1950: MLS, the White House from side angle. CU, President Truman speaks on the National Emergency "We will keep freedom - with God's help". MLS, MS, office - the meeting of National Security Resources Board. Men around long table. MCUs, men seated at table. MS, MCU, W Stuart Symington addressing board. MS, men listening. MS, MCU John Snyder conferring with Symington. MLS, the group around table. MCU, W Averell Harriman talking with a member. UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON CZECHOSLOVAKIA: GR0MYKO-AUSTIN DEBATE (UNITED NATIONS).: MS, interior United Nations meeting hall. MLS, various delegates behind desks. Pan r to Gromyko, Russian delegate, who begins to speak (in Russian). MLS, MSs, Andrei Gromyko speaking. MLS, MS, Warren Austin, the U S delegate, answers Gromyko, emphasizes with his hand, etc, "The council has charges of the most serious nature against the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia... The main point that interests us is to apply the test to such articles.... Where do you find answers to charges that you have reduced Czechoslovakia to a slave state?

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities