Reel 1 - United Nations Meeting AKA UN Meet On Atlantic Pact (1949)

(REEL.1.) Flushing Meadows, New York, USA. United Nations meeting (General Assembly - 193rd Plenary Session Atlantic Pact discussion). A Press Release is contained in the documentation. . Dr. Joseph Arce (Argentina) on rostrum pouring out glass of water for himself. Pan over the assembly. . C.U. Dr. Arce speaking (in Spanish) precis: Dr Adolf Hoffmeister (Czechoslovakia) speaking says that the Atlantic Pact is in conflict with the principals of the Charter of the U.N. precis: Hector McNeil speaking says that the Hoffmeister and Mr Andrei Gromyko (USSR) had made attacks on British Govt. and used the U.N. for propaganda purposes. He also says that if Gromyko really believed that the Atlantic Pact was contrary to the U.N. principles then he could put it on the Agenda for discussion in the proper way McNeil quotes from the Soviet History of Diplomacy published in 1945. (Comb. B/W.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GR