People release their homing birds in Jackson Heights, Long Island, New York. People gather at a place. They release their pigeons. The pigeons fly in the sky. People watch the pigeons. The pigeons fly over buildings and towers.
UN delegates are seen gathering for a meeting of the Security Council at the temporary United Nations headquarters in Lake success, Long Island, New York. One of the first to be seated is Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union. Another delegate stops to converse with him. Camera pans across delegates settling into their respective places at large curved table. Their nations are identified by placards at each place. Attention is focused on French Delegate Alexandre Parodi, who has apparently just been elected President of the Council for the month of May, 1948. At TC: 00:54, He is seen standing with Secretary General Trygve Lie. And at TC:01:19 he gently uses a gavel. At TC:01:28, another delegate holds the gavel with him as they laugh. After a while, the delegates settle down and begin to conduct business.
United Nations meeting in Flushing Meadows, New York. U.S. ambassador to the UN , Edward Stettinius, is seen at conference table, seated next to Sir Alexander Catogan, of the United Kingdom. Meeting adjourns and members prepare to depart.
Remains of the Lockheed XP-38 that crashed at Mitchel Field, New York, the day before, after a cross-continental flight from March Field, California. The airplane was flown by Lieutenant Ben Kelsey, who escaped without injury. But the airplane was totally destroyed.
Count Basie and his orchestra members participate in a celebration of Paul Robeson’s 46th birthday and on the anniversary of the Council on African Affairs. The event is held at the 17th Regiment Armory, at 34th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan. Basie's jazz and swing band plays and he leads his orchestra from the piano. The audience fills the hall to capacity.
Mayor F. H. La Guardia gives a speech in the Mayor's Office in City Hall. He says that any peace talk by Hitler is a sheer nonsense and there should be a complete assurance of permanent peace in all the countries including U.S. Various views of newspaper reporters as they listen and note down the speech. The cover of a Program Booklet reads 'US Civilian Defense - F. H. LaGuardia.'
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