THE JAPANESE PEACE CONFERENCE Part 21

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POLITICAL NEWS PROGRAM: On the 52-nation conference to sign the U.S.-sponsored Japanese peace treaty at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House. Charles Collingwood and Walter Cronkite narrate. Reel 1: Pres. Harry S. Truman keynotes conference; Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, introduces President. Gov. Earl Warren and Mayor Elmer E. Robinson, San Francisco, appear on podium. Reel 2: Conference business session on adoption of Conference procedure rules. Collingwood explains Conference procedures and background as delegates are seated. Acting Chairperson Acheson convenes plenary session. New Zealand's delegates proposes adoption of U.S.-British Conference procedure rules draft; motion seconded by Cuba's delegate. Russia's delegate, Andrei A. Gromyko, objects to rule's adoption, and proposes admission of Chinese People's Republic delegation. Czechoslovakian delegate Gertude Sekaninova, opposes procedures. Reel 3: Delegates speaks on opposite sides of rules adoption proposal. Gromyko upbraids Chair and restates his Chinese People's Republic proposal. Great Britain's delegate, Kenneth Youth, supports Chair's ruling; procedural ruling put to vote. Poland's delegate, Stefan Wierblowski, objects to adoption of rules and proposes Conference draft its own rules. Reel 4: Russian and Polish delegates oppose Chair's ruling on Russia's proposal. Czechoslovakian delegate raise point of order. Conference sustains Chair. Russian and Polish delegates raises point of order. Chair takes up business of electing Conference officials. Collingwood commentary. Reel 5: Conference elects officers: Acheson is elected permanent President and Australia's U.S. Ambassador, Percy C. Spender, is elected Vice-President. Cronkite introduces third business session and comments on proceedings. Chilean delegate, Felix Nieto, addresses Conference. U.S., Russian and Czechoslovakian delegations shown. Reel 6: Chair updates delegateson proceedings. Japanese delegate, Shigeru Yoshida, addresses Conference on treaty requirements. Ceylonese delegate proposes time limit on addresses; Cuban delegate seconds proposal. Gromyko introduces the Chinese People's Republic delegation proposal. Shows U.S., Russian, Czechoslovakian, and Japanese delegations. Reel 7: Chair makes procedural ruling on Russian proposal; Czechoslovakian delegate raises point of order; and Polish delegate opposes Chair's ruling. Conference adopts Ceylonese time limit proposal. Reel 8: Polish and U.S. delegates, including John F. Dulles, address conference on Chair's ruling on Russia's Chinese People's proposal. Conference upholds Chair. Czechoslovakian delegate raises point of order, and Russian and British delegates address Conference on peace treaty. Reel 9: Polish delegate completes statement off camera. Chair recognizes Argentina's delegate, Hipolito J. Paz. Shots of U.S. and Russian delegations. Cronkite comments. Reel 10: Conference Secretary General reports on status of different language version of treaty. Chair announces treaty signing as next order of business. Robert McCormick interviews British delegate Younger. Reel 11: Cronkite reporting. Bryson Rash interviews Mrs. Dulles, Acheson and Spender as well as Sen. Styles Bridges. Delegates view official treaty prior to signing ceremony. Russian, Czechoslovakian and Polish delegations are not present. Russian cars leave Opera House. British delegate, Herbert Morrison, addresses Conference. Reel 12: Morrison finishes address and treaty signing begins; delegations sign in alphabetical order by country: Argentina (Hipolito J. Paz), Australia (Percy C. Spender), Belgium (Paul Van Zeeland), Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada (Lester B. Pearson), Ceylon, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France (Robert Schuman and George Bonnet), Greece (Jean Politis), Guatemala, Haiti (Edourdo Castillo), Honduras and Indonesia. Reel 13:Delegates sign for: Iran, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon (Charles Malik), Liberia (Gabri

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General Records of the Department of State

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Moving Images Relating to U.S. Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations