War Scare Grips World Truman Hints Use of A-Bomb in Korea Crisis (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1950)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. WAR SCARE GRIPS WORLD TRUMAN HINTS USE OF A-BOMB IN KOREA CRISIS - Fears that World War III may be near grip the world, as Red Chinese hordes threaten to engulf U.N. forces fighting in Korea. In Washington, Pres. Truman calls a press conference and announces that the U.S. is considering the use of its prime weapon, the atom bomb, in the Korean crisis. At the United Nations, historic meeting hears Red China branded as aggressors, and Western Allies marshal their forces for a definite stand against appeasement and further encroachment of communism. 2A/B. GREEK CHILDREN RELEASED: GREECE - At the Yugo border, thousands of Greek children kidnapped by Red guerillas during the civil war in Greece are released under the aegis of the Internat'l Red Cross. Heartwarming scenes of reunion. / JAP WAR LEADER FREED: TOKYO - Japan's wartime Foreign Minister, who signed the surrender on the "Big Mo," is released from Tokyo's war criminal penitentiary after serving four years of a seven-year term. Gen. MacArthur paroled Mamoru Shigemitsu despite Russian objections. 3. SLAM-BANG BOXING!: PARIS - It's a slam-bang exhibition of boxing at its best when Sugar Ray Robinson of New York gets the measure of France's Jean Stock in two minutes of the second round. The Frenchman's manager "throws in the towel" after his man had been clubbed to the canvas three times in the savage bout.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library