Bibliograph

Prospects of mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt, challenge to the United Nations, WGBH-TV Boston production in cooperation with Brandeis University for National Educational Television and Radio Center ; producer-director, Paul Noble ; producer-writer, Diana Tead-Michaelis

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Prospects of mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt, challenge to the United Nations, WGBH-TV Boston production in cooperation with Brandeis University for National Educational Television and Radio Center ; producer-director, Paul Noble ; producer-writer, Diana Tead-Michaelis

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Prospects of mankind with Eleanor Roosevelt

Oclc number

950268121

Responsibility statement

WGBH-TV Boston production in cooperation with Brandeis University for National Educational Television and Radio Center ; producer-director, Paul Noble ; producer-writer, Diana Tead-Michaelis

Runtime

Sub title

challenge to the United Nations

Summary

Includes a roundtable discussion hosted in 1960 by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Tackles critical issues concerning the United Nations intervention in the Belgian Congo after their independence and the struggle to establish sovereignty. Guests in the roundtable included Ambassador Adlai Stevenson (Governor of Illinois from 1949-53 and American representative to the United Nations), G. Mennen Williams (Governor of Michigan from 1949-61), Jana Wachuku (chairman of the United Nations appointed Congo Conciliation Commission), Rajeshawar Dayal (representative in the Congo), William Frye (United Nations correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor)

Target audience

adult

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