1951: Year of Stalemate.
1951: Year of Stalemate.
1951: Year of Stalemate. (1951 Highlights - most or all of these exist in longer form within our library)
1951: Year of Stalemate.
"On the international scene the Korean War took the spotlight with United Nations casualties mounting to more than 100,000 and on the Red side to more than a million. Truce talks appeared stalemated at year's end as were those on disarmament in the United Nations assembly. Under General Eisenhower, Western Europe rearmed at a rapid pace." Title card reads, "World Struggles for Road to Peace." VS tanks firing in Korea. Two Korean soldiers come out with their hands up in surrender. General Douglas Macarthur walks; newspaper headlines about his removal. Close shot General Matthew Ridgway (Ridgeway). Murdered prisoners of war. Representatives meet to discuss truce. Scenes in San Francisco of signing of peace treaty with Japan, Soviet rep Andrei Gromyko walking out. Fairly casual scenes of Eisenhower walking with other military men. "Arms Race. With the world in turmoil the arms continued with emphasis on atomic weapons and guided missiles." Exterior US Capitol Building, winter (bare tree branches fg). Interior, President Truman signs a bill into law. VS Matador (?) missile, which launches. 28.42 "Nationalization of the huge oil refinery at Abadan precipitated a stalemate between Britain and Iran, with Premier Mossadegh of Iran taking the case to the United Nations, without result. Egypt also sought the ouster of Britain from the Suez Canal area and the Sudan." Map of Europe, Asia, Africa, with Iran labeled, zoom in on Iran. VS oil refinery. VS rioting, demonstrations. CU Mossadegh; VS of him at UN. Exterior, low angle shot of United Nations building.
1951: Year of Stalemate.
29.34 "Disasters. The worst railroad wreck in 33 years carried eighty-five to their deaths in New Jersey and in Kansas and Missouri, swollen rivers took forty lives and caused damage estimated at a billion dollars." VS wreckage after train crash, at least one dead body (corpse) seen. VS flooding, victims evacuating, flood damage. "Probes. Nineteen-fifty-one was the year of probes, with the Kefauver committee investigating the links between the underworld and politics leading the parade. The Internal Revenue department also came in for scrutiny and a shakeup." VS people at investigations in the US Capitol. Ex-Mayor O'Dwyer of New York testifies. Frank Costello smokes a cigarette. "Politics. Britain went to the polls and returned its wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill, and his conservatives to power. In America, Senator Robert Taft and Governor Earl Warren tossed their hats in the ring for the top Republican spot, while General Eisenhower and President Truman remained silent (about the upcoming election in 1952)." VS British elections, Churchill. Taft, Warren. Sign, "Republicans for Eisenhower Club." Truman speaks at podium at a dinner event. VS outdoors, racially integrated crowd stands as if listening to a speaker.