Congo Crisis at New Peak (Universal Newsreel, Feb 1961)

Description

The original release sheet reads: CONGO CRISIS AT NEW PEAK The Soviet seizes upon the slaying of deposed Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba as pretext for its most massive attack in the U.N. Scenes trace the stormy career of Lumumba from his coming to power to his capture by strong-man Mobutu. Following his death, well-organized demonstrations in Moscow, New York, and most of the world's major cities are accompanied by demands that U.N. Secretary General Hammarskjold resign, and that all U.N. troops be pulled out of the Congo. Debate in the Security Council is interrupted by a violent demonstration in the galleries, during U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson's defense against what he calls a Soviet "Declaration of War" against the world organization.g 73 DIE IN BELGIUM AIR TRAGEDY 73 die in the crash of a Belgian Boeing 707 Jet liner while circling to land at Brussels Airport. En route from New York, the plane was carrying the entire U.S. figure skating team, bound for competitions in Prague. All aboard die, together with a farmer struck by wreckage. POODLE WINS AT WESTMINSTER Best in show at the 85th Westminster Kennel Club event, dogdom's top ranking contest, is a toy poodle, Ch. Cappoquin Little Sister. She's the third poodle handled by Anne Rogers to win in the last six years - a record for Miss Rogers - confirming the poodle's position as America's most fashionable breed .

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library