Summing Up No. 13 (1949)

Reel 1. Associated British-Pathe presents a Quarterly Review of Current Affairs. Summing Up. Summer to Autumn 1949. Women welcome returning soldiers. Strasbourg: Parliament of Nations. Bevin and Churchill. Aircraft taking off. Field Marshal Montgomery. Combined fleets of Western Union. Naval officers. Battleship flotilla. United States Service Chiefs meet. Paris: Communists protest in streets. British Labour Party Conference. Bevin defends the Atlantic Pact. Bonn: Parliament of Western Germany. Democratic constitution signed. American High Commissioner John McCloy makes a speech. Shots of bomb damaged buildings and food queues. Hamburg: Field Marshal von Manstein on trial in War Crimes Court. Ruhr: industrial revival in mines and foundries. A lorry bedecked with flowers rolls off a production line. War plants scheduled for dismantling. German trade fair. A car, photographic lenses, precision instruments and a piece of furniture are displayed. People staring through shop windows ful
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