Japanese Go to Polls in First Free Election - 1946

Part 1 shows campaigning, voting (Apr. 10), and tabulation in Japan. A Communist incites a riot on Premier Shidehara's home. Part 2, MacArthur deplores war before the Allied Council for Japan. Part 3 shows the annual marathon in Boston. Part 4, Brit. and Indian representatives confer at New Delhi on Indian independence. Shows Gandhi, Nehru, and Richard Cripps. Part 5, old cars parade in Detroit, celebrating the automobile golden jubilee. Part 6, Truman, Sec. Anderson, and UNRRA Director La Guardia confer on Europe's food crisis. Truman asks Americans to eat less. UNRRA shipments are loaded aboard ships.
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Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 - 09/15/1945)
SUBJECT
Automobiles
Communism
Parades
Riots
Running
Voting
Anderson, Clinton Presba, 1895-1975
Cripps, Richard Stafford, Sir, 1889-1952.
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Boston (Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America) inhabited place
Detroit (Wayne, Michigan, United States, North and Central America) inhabited place
India (Asia) nation
Japan (Asia) nation
New Delhi (Delhi metropolitan area) inhabited place
United Kingdom (Europe) nation
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