European Defense (Universal Newsreel, Nov 1951)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. EUROPEAN DEFENSE: ITALY AND HOLLAND - Top ranking ministers of the Atlantic Pact Nations meet in Rome and are welcomed by Premier De Gasperi before they open their strategy conference, and in Holland the Canadian 27th Brigade of specialists arrives to join the international army. 2A/B/C/D/E. DEMONSTRATIONS IN EGYPT: EGYPT - Serried ranks of nationalists march through the streets of Cairo and Alexandria, in an organized protest against continued British occupation of the Suez Canal Zone and the Sudan. / FLOODS HIT FRANCE: FRANCE - The turbulent Rhone River goes on a rampage and floods the famous town of Avignon and its neighboring communities. Boats are used to evacuate the many homeless. / ASIATIC WAR BRIDES: CALIFORNIA - Eleven war brides—ten Korean and one Chinese arrive in the land of their GI husbands and along with them some little GI's. / FOOD FOR PRISONERS - Five thousand packages of food collected by the Red Cross is loaded at San Francisco for shipment to Korea. As soon as contact can be established with the Reds, the food will be delivered to the imprisoned men. / BROWN BOMBER: TOKYO - Joe Louis, touring the armed forces bases in Japan, takes on five sailors in one boxing session and proves that the old punch still has a sting. 3A/B/C. FOOTBALL — LEXINGTON, KY - Tennessee hands Kentucky one of its worst shellackings in years as the Volunteers, bound for the Sugar Bowl take the Kentuckians into camp to the tune of 28 to 0. / PALO ALTO - California Bears score one of the stunning upsets of the West Coast season as they romp over unbeaten Stanford 20 to 7. / LANSING, MI - Michigan State rounds its greatest season in thirty eight years as they roll over Colorado by the lopsided score of 45 to 7.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library