A special VE Day anniversary program which includes many actualities from VE Day, May 8, 1945, and goes on to give a brief history of the cold war. The VE Day items are:~The bells of Westminster Abbey ringinging in victory.~"Round and Round Hitler's Grave" sung first in English then in Croatian, Danish and Greek.~The bells of the Kremlin ring and 2,000 guns in Moscow proclaim victory.~Joseph Stalin speaks in Russian with English voice-over.~Mrs. Churchill speaks from Moscow, "It is my firm belief that on friendship and understanding between the British and Russian people depends the future of mankind".~Russians singing "Long Way to Tippearary".~American reporter, Howard K. Smith speaks from Berlin. He describes Hitler's garden.~A unidentified BBC announcer describes the scene at the Belsen concentration camp and prisoners in the SS canteen play "God Save the King" on a rickety piano.~A British chaplain conducts a Jewish religious service. People singing in in Hebrew. A BBC announcer describes the grisly scene at Belsen.~Dutch children from the Belsen camp sing in Dutch, "Long Live the English".~An unidentified BBC annuncer speaks from Belsen of the evils of war.~People sing in the streets of Paris on VE night.~Westminster Abbey bells.~King George VI speaks from London, "There is great comfort in the thought that the years of darkness and danger in which the children of our country have grown up are over. And, please God, forever. We shall have failed and the blood of our dearest will have flowed in vain if the victory which they died to win does not lead to a lasting peace founded on justice and good will".~Sound of ship's horns at Liverpool.~An unidentified BBC announcer describes Churchill emerging from Whitehall to the sound of a cheering crowd. Churchill speaks of the great contribution to victory made by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.~From Paris, British Air Marshall Cunningham praises the U.S. Air Force and speaks of the future for all nations.~Crowd sounds from Times Square, New York.~The "city's best loved voice" (?) reminds people that they are still at war.~President Harry Truman speaks from the White House.~Strokes of the Liberty Bell from Independence Hall, Philadelphia.~Father Gannon at Fordham University, New York, offers prayer and the choir sings "Te Deum".~An unidentified announcer describes people in the street in Cleveland, Ohio.~The Cold War items are:~General Jan Smuts of South Africa speaks from the United Nations conference in San Francisco, June 1945.~Military Police guard at the conference hall in San Francisco offers suggestion for making peace, [June 1945].~An unidentified news reporter in Guam is not jubilant about the peace in Europe. He hopes peace comes to the Pacific soon, (VE Day, 1945 ?).~The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific, General MacArthur, at the signing of the Japanese surrender says "Representatives of the major warring powers ... to conclude a solemn agreement whereby peace may be restored".~President Truman on VE night: "Peace has a mind of its own and doesn't follow victory around".~[Arthur Gaith], who witnessed the hanging of Nazi Foreign Minister war criminal Joachim von Ribbentrop, reports von Ribbentrop's last remarks.~Winston Churchill speaks at Fulton, Missouri, ("300 days after the war ended"), "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an Iron Curtain had descended across the continent..."~Stalin speaks to Truman (in English) on the death of F.D. Roosevelt.~CBC announcer, [Robert Magadov], speaks from Moscow.~Bernard Baruch speaks against nuclear weapons to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.~A woman on a collective farm in Russia speaks, through an interpreter, into an "American microphone". She says, "All the people in the world must be good friends". A Russian girl sings a song she learned from an American movie.~Sergei Eisenstein, Russian filmmaker, speaks of the tension between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.~Stalin speaks in [1946], "We must not forget for a single minute the intrigues of international reaction which is hatching plans for a new war. The armed forces of the Soviet Union must daily improve their military art".~American Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, in August 1946 speaks, "After every great war, the victim find the making of peace difficult and disappointing ... As war breeds war, so peace can be made to breed peace".~American overseas broadcast in Russian.~President Truman, March 1947, says, "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures ... In helping free and independent nations to maintain their freedom, the United States will be giving effect to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations".~Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky speaks out at the UN against "war mongering" (in Russian with English voice-over).~Secretary General of the UN, Trygve Lie, speaks (date not known), "People are afraid in America. They are afraid in Russia. There should be an end to war talk. I do not believe any government anywhere in the world is so utterly mad as to contemplate starting another war".~A typical broadcast from Berlin during the era of the airlift with Allan Jackson reporting.~The remarks of Russian Consul General [Lamakin] to reporters at the dockside when he is expelled from the United States.~Truman, at the signing of the North Atlantic Pact, says, "In this treaty we seek to establish freedom from aggression and from the use of force in the North Atlantic community ... There are those who claim that this treaty is an aggressive act on the part of the nations which ring the North Atlantic. That is absolutely untrue".~[Henry Lacossat] of Mutual Broadcasting describes the city when the blockages end in West Berlin.~Brian MacMahon, chairman of the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, announces that the Kremlin has the atomic bomb.~Congressman [Battle] of the House Foreign Affairs Committee comments on the Russian atomic bomb.~General Carlos Romulo of the Phillipines, President of the General Assembly of the UN, in a special address for this program, "I see in the press and hear on the radio statements sometimes about winning the cold war ... the choice is rapidly becoming either peaceful negotiation through the United Nations or the unimaginably horrible negotiation of mass murder on the battle grounds of an atomic war".~Alfred Einstein (date unknown) says, "Annihilation of any life on earth has been brought within the rage of technical possibilities".~Dr. V. Bush says, "There is no defense against an airborne A-bomb. It is almost impossible to design an atom bomb proof building".~Trygve Lie speaks from Paris, May 1950, "When the United Nations was established in San Francisco, it was created as an organization for the entire world. Now it is proposed to split the world permanently into two camps. There is only one possible end to that road, sooner or later, a third world war. The other road is the United Nations. That road leads away from a third world war instead of towards it". <1h>
