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keywords: united nations, new world disarmament, president dwight d. eisenhower, dictator benito mussolini
Synopsis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower Proposes New World Disarmament, 25 Years Ago: Events From 1935...(read more)
- Date: 1960
- Duration: 00:06:13
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Italy, Ethiopia

































President Dwight D. Eisenhower Proposes New World Disarmament
Scenes of the "Summit Session" of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in which nearly every one of the 96 Member Nations is represented by a Head Of Government or Foreign Minister including new nations recently admitted. Shows Nikita Khrushchev Of Russia and Fidel Castro of Cuba entering the UN building. Shows Czechoslovakia President and Communist Party Boss Antonin Novotny and Marshall Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia, seated in General Assembly. Shows President Eisenhower arriving at the UN standing and waving to a cheering crowd from an open automobile. Various shots of the UN General Assembly.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking at the historic 'Summit Session' of the United Nations General Assembly at which time the President calls for a hands off Africa policy by all Nations, a pledge for peaceful development of outer space and a comprehensive disarmament and International inspection program.
25 Years Ago: Events From 1935
Italy, under the leadership of Dictator Benito Mussolini in 1935, prepared to invade Ethiopia. Shows Benito Mussolini looking down from his Palace balcony on a huge crowd as he delivers a speech while gesturing wildly (no audio except crowd cheering). Mussolini on Palace balcony in Rome.
In Geneva, The League Of Nations meet to consider the challenge to world peace of Italy's aggression in Africa by invading Ethiopia. Dictator Benito Mussolini scorned the sanctions imposed by The League Of Nations which proved to be ineffective. Image of Pierre Laval of France.
Defying League sanctions Italian Forces invade the rural little kingdom of Ethiopia without a formal declaration of war.