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13167_8912_japanese_election

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1955
B&W

Newsreel clips: Chicago Council of Foreign Relations talks to press, close-up of Vladimir Matskevich, Minister of Agriculture making joke. The “Big Four” meet in Geneva. Close ups of U.S. Secretary of State John Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillian, Meta(?) Stonewall of France and Vyacheslav Molotov of the Soviet Union. Clips of Japanese standing in crowd on road listening to man give speech, on bikes and passing store. Shot of what may be a locked box of voting ballets. Shot of Ichiro Hatoyama after beating Shigeru Yoshida in election for Prime Minister of Japan. Announcement that Panama's president, Jose Ramon, was murdered. Vice President Jose Guizado is escorted to, then sits in, a court room because of charges that he conspired to murder Ramon. RAF Captain Peter Townsend rides on horse, then Princess Margaret of Britain walks through crowd—they were courting each other until the Princess declined to marry Townsend. Shot of Miss Universe poster, then shot of winner, Miss Sweden Hillevi Rombin, in crown. Miss America contestants walk along stage in gowns and then in bathing suits. Close up of the pageant winner, Sharon Kay Ritchie from Colorado.