WORLD AT U N PLAZA, THE

Duration: 29 min

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Department of State

Color: Color

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Provides an inside look at the work of the United States 'Embassy' to the U S and the United Nations itself. Its highlights include glimpses of behind-the-scenes United Nations diplomacy, recollections of the Security Council debates during the 1967 Middle East crisis, and a U S mission reception for General Assembly delegates on a boat circling Manhattan. Its purpose is to suggest, through a series of impressions of life at United Nations Plaza, how the principal U S representative to the United Nations and his colleagues go about the task of representing our country at the U N.