Bid for Peace: Truman Proposal Laid Before U.N. Assembly
Bid for Peace: Truman Proposal Laid Before U.N. Assembly
Bid for Peace: Truman Proposal Laid Before U.N. Assembly "In a dramatic bid for world peace, President Truman offers the world a new disarmament proposal based on inspection of all countries. The President's proposals are laid before the United Nations assembly meeting in Paris, where Secretary Dean Acheson and other members of the western block try again to solve the differences between east and west." First, Truman sits at a desk speaking to cameras. Truman says the key to this plan is accurate tallies of what each country has in the way of weapons, and that atomic weapons would ultimately be prohibited (!). "We are of course always ready to consider any better plan..." The President urges the Kremlin to accept the plan, says the people of the Soviet Union long for peace. Now, VS at the United Nations meeting. Dean Acheson, Anthony Eden, Andrei Vichinski (?) are present. Delegate casts a ballot. Luis Padilla Nervo steps up to rostrum and shakes hands with various people (Nervo apparently the new president of the sixth session of the U.N. General Assembly).