CAN THE U.N. SURVIVE? Part 1

Description

TELEVISION DISCUSSION: Examines "the ordeal of the United Nations to see how it has changed" since its founding in 1945; estimates its prospects for survival, its role as a peace keeping organization, its weaknesses, its racism, and the failure of some member nations to pay their financial obligation. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; U.N. Ambassadors Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S.; Nikolai Fedorenko, U.S.S.R.; Alex Quaison-Sackey, Ghana; Dr. Vasco Garin, Portugal; and Walter Loridan, Belgium; Dr. Andrew Cordier, of Columbia University; and Henry Cabot Lodge, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., make statements. Theodore Granik opens and closes the show.

Collection

General Records of the Department of State

Series

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