Views of people from various countries of the world and of South America about the Cuban revolution and rule of Fidel Castro in Cuba. Fidel Castro alights from an airplane for the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in September 1960. Officials receive him. An expert talks about Castro during his two visits to New York for General Assembly meetings. Fidel Castro meets with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York City. Castro addresses the UN General Assembly for five continues hours.
Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations, arrives at Idlewild Airport, in New York. He descends from British Overseas Airways Corporation passenger aircraft and is greeted by contingent of New York City police who stand guard as he walks to a waiting Cadillac limousine automobile. The limousine.drives away with police car escort.
Seventh founding anniversary of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund). Thirteen girls from a New York settlement house enter the room and present Madame Pandit, retiring President of the UN, with a flag-bedecked cake. Madame Pandit cuts the cake. Children share the cake pieces.
Britain declares war on Germany. Artillery poised on streets of London with Big Ben clock tower in the background on the grounds of the Palace of Westminster. People gathered outside and near fountain of Trafalgar Square. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declares a state of war in London. Troops mobilize and air raid defenses are manned to prevent bombing attacks. Soldiers firing artillery, building barricades. Battleships underway at sea. Soldiers continue firing at night. Destroyed buildings and wrecked equipment. Thousands of children are evacuated to the countryside.
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.
Following a State Funeral at Westminster Abbey, coffin bearing Nurse Edith Cavell's body is carried out and put on gun carriage. Mourners attend the funeral. Mourners, sailors with wreaths, nurses and other services in procession with horse-drawn carriage move on road. Soldiers lift the coffin. Coffin transferred at a ship for its transport to Norfolk for burial at Norwich Cathedral. (This state funeral followed disinterment of Cavell's body in Belgium, after her execution on October 12, 1915).
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