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Delegates at the Eve of League of Nations Seventh Assembly's special session in Geneva, Switzerland.
Delegates pose outside Beau-Rivage Hotel (Quai du Mont-Blanc 13, 1201 Genève, Switzerland) in Geneva, Switzerland at Eve of League of Nations Seventh Assembly's special session. The posing delegates include Chancellor Hans Luther, German Foreign Affairs Minister Gustav Stresemann with German Delegation and Count Aleksander Skrynski, the first delegate for Poland.
7th Assembly of the League of Nations in session at the Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland.
Scenes from the 7th Assembly of the League of Nations in session at Salle de la Reformation or Calvinium (Rue du Rhône 65, 1204 Genève, Switzerland) in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Da Costa presides over the session. Shows session in progress. Viscount Ishii Kikujiro of Japan makes the opening speech. Mr. Da Costa takes the chair. Delegates leave the hall after the meeting. Press, public and photographers gather outside the venue.
Atoms for Peace. UN approves formation of IAEA. Nuclear scientists gather in Geneva Switzerland
UN General Assembly seen meeting in 1954 as it approves an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge II, and French ambassador, Henri Hoppenot, speaking. Finn Moe, of Norway, speaking. View of the city of Kjeller, Norway. Flags of Norway and the Netherlands at joint atomic laboratory. Scientists with various pieces of scientific equipment inside the facility. Indian ambassador, Krishna Menon, speaking at the United Nations. Atomic laboratory and a Government Teachers' Training College, in India. Indian scientists in a laboratory. Indian lecturer speaks to students. Brazil's Professor Ernesto Leme speaks at the UN. The city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The University of Sao Paulo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Center for Physical Research. Clock tower of Brazil Central Station in Rio. Sutan Sjahrir,of Indonesia at the United Nations. An animated map shows nations interested in atomic energy. The UN Headquarters building on the East River in New York. A person looking through a microscope. Foreign scientists attending indoctrination courses at the U.S. Argonne National Laboratory. Diplomats sign agreement between the U.S. and Philippines on July 27, 1955, for the Philippines to lease uranium for a research nuclear reactor, and to receive technical assistance. Views of Geneva Switzerland in August 1955, including street views with pedestrians, and tram or streetcar on city streets. Exterior of Palace of Nations, then interior view with atomic science conference in progress. Indian nuclear physicist, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, presiding over conference of scientists and university representatives from 73 nations, including, inter alia, John Cockcroft, of Great Britain; Otto Hahn, of Germany; Willard Libby, of the U.S.A.; Vladimir Vexler of the Soviet Union; and Niels Bohr of Denmark. Views of exhibit hall at the conference, and displayed models of nuclear reactors, uranium ore refining exhibits, and accelerators. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower views swimming pool reactor, while visiting the exhibit hall. Site work and construction underway in Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland for a research laboratory for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN - Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). Sitework seen for a facility of Euratom in Europe (European Atomic Energy Community). View of early sitework in Manila for an Asian nuclear center in the Philippines under the Colombo plan, for training personnel in nuclear science and technology.
Baby animals play in Ruhr Zoo in Germany and in Basel Zoo in Basel, Switzerland.
Baby animals in zoos in Europe. Two baby goats play at Ruhr Zoo (Bleckstraße 64, 45889 Gelsenkirchen, Germany) in Germany. Two Kodiak bear cubs wrestle playfully. A lizard on a man's palm. A child rides a tortoise. A baby gorilla Goma climbs up the bars of its playpen at Basel Zoo (Binningerstrasse 40, 4054 Basel, Switzerland) in Basel, Switzerland. An Okapi colt licks a man's head.
American flyers repatriated from internment in Switzerland, depart on C-47 aircraft from Annecy France, in World War II
Repatriated American flyers depart Annecy, France, during World War 2. French civilians walking and cycling along a path beside the airfield, at Annecy, France, are blown by the propwash from a taxiing U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft. Image of the Hotel des Alpes, overlooking Lake Annecy, Glion, s/Montreux, Switzerland, and image of the flag of Graubunden Canton, Switzerland. (These are souvenirs from places where American flyers were interned.) Repatriated American flyers climbing aboard a C-47 at the airfield. The C-47 taking off. More repatriated flyers gathered on the airfield grass, waiting to board another airplane. A person chasing a sheep and lamb near the group. German prisoners of war, pause from their task of clearing stones from the airfield, to watch a c-47 taking off. Children,and several adults, on the path beside the airfield, are blown by the propwash from a C-47's propellers, as it taxis. Some of the boys lie down to minimize the effect, while they watch. The German POWs resume work clearing stones, as a C-47 takes off in the background. The German prisoners pause and pose for the camera.
Representatives of many countries attend a UN meeting and interviews of foreign ministers of Thailand, Malaysia and Philippines, Geneva.
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) foreign ministers discuss the refugee crisis in Southeast Asia to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The plight of Southeast Asian and Chinese refugees, with focus on role of international organizations, being discussed by United Nation (UN) members. View of Geneva, Switzerland. United Nation representatives convene for a meeting. The Belgian representative listening. Representatives of 59 countries and Foreign Ministers of Thailand, Malaysia and Philippines attend a meeting. Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen, Foreign Minister of Malaysia is interviewed, detailing possible lack of resources, financial concerns to Malaysia for accommodating refugees. Carlos P. Romulo, Foreign Minister of Philippines speaks about establishment of refugee center. “The President Marcos has announced that we were willing to establish a refugee center for 10,000 refugees. And that’s been carried out. A center has been established. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has visited the facilities. He praised the facilities highly. But then we found out and the president has approved that we should increase the facilities from 10,000 to 15,000. So it is well-organized, well-established refugee center in a place called Morong, near Bataan. And considering our modest means, that is our contribution to this refugee question.” Mr. Romulo said. Siddhi Savetsila, the Foreign Minister of Thailand is interviewed.
