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UN Charter signed in San Francisco Conference; President Harry S. Truman addressing General Assembly; Franklin Roosevelt speech about peace

Delegates arrive in San Francisco for United Nations Conference for World Organization in San Francisco, California. U.S. President Truman arrives by airplane at the conference and is met by representatives from U.S. delegation including Stettinius. Delegates from other countries are also present and greet the President including Jan Smuts of South Africa and William Lloyd Mackenzie King of Canada. Views of presidential motorcade traveling through streets of San Francisco in a parade-like environment, with crowds lining the sidewalks and cheering. Delegates sign the United Nations Charter during the conference. First to sign is Dr. Wellington Koo from China, signing with a traditional Chinese brush. Also shown signing is Gromyko from the Soviet Union, Lord Halifax from Great Britain, and the delegation from France led by acting delegation chairman Joseph Paul-Boncour. Next is Edward Stettinius and Senator Tom Connally, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Commander Harold Stassen, from the United States. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses the general assembly. Representatives of different nations like Lord Halifax of Great Britain, Mackenzie King of Canada, Jan Christian Smuts of South Africa, Andrei Gromyko of Russia and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru of India can be seen. Flashback to President Franklin D Roosevelt, shortly before his death, addressing Congress about the coming San Francisco Conference. Roosevelt speaks, expressing his hope that Congress and the American People would "accept the results of this conference as the beginning of a permanent structure of peace, upon which we can begin to build, under God, that better world in which our children and grandchildren -- yours and mine - children and grandchildren of the whole world -- must live and can live."

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1945, June 26
Duration: 8 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032540
Displaced Russian people awaits transportation to homeland from Grimma, Germany

World War 2 displaced Russian people gets off of railroad trains which are decorated with greenery and large pictures of Stalin. Russian men, women with their children and luggage waiting and relaxing on railway station. Two United States Army soldiers in conversation with a Russian woman holding an infant in her lap. Russians in an open field, relaxing and waiting for transportation to homeland. Soviet soldiers are also among the group.

Location: Grimma Germany
Date: 1945, June 21
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032575
Displaced Russian people washing clothes and bathing in river Mulde in Grimma, Germany.

Displaced Russian people around the river Mulde in Grimma, Germany. Russians wash clothes while waiting for transportation to their homeland. Some men and women swim.

Location: Grimma Germany
Date: 1945, June 21
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032576
Field Marshall Sir Bernard L Montgomery presents British awards to U.S. Army personnels in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Soldiers of 56th Armored Infantry Battalion in a ground in Wiesbaden, Germany. Some soldiers sitting, some marching, army band playing instruments. Field Marshal Montgomery and General Omar N Bradly troop the line of soldiers and presents awards. Motion picture photographers taking pictures. (World War II period).

Location: Wiesbaden Germany
Date: 1945, June 26
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032577
President Harry S. Truman announces the surrender of Germany, ending World War II hostilities in Europe.

President Harry S. Truman broadcasts to the nation from a desk in the White House, Washington, DC. on V-E (Victory in Europe) Day, announcing that Germany has surrendered to end World War 2, in Europe. He expresses his regret that the late President Franklin Roosevelt had not lived to see the day. Truman calls it a "solemn but glorious hour" and offers thanks to the "providence that has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity and into light."

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032950
Scenes of destruction and death, the aftermath of World War II in Germany.

Scenes of utter destruction from World War 2, in Germany. Wreckage and debris, destroyed neighborhoods, and fallen German soldiers. Surrendered German prisoners of war seen closeup and assembled in large group within confines of fenced field.

Location: Germany
Date: 1945
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032952
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