JAPAN - 1945 - Japanese emissaries including Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Umezu, come aboard the USS Missouri to formally surrender WWII.
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JAPAN - 1945 - A Japanese envoy with a wooden leg signs the document of Japan's surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
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JAPAN - 1945 - A Japanese emissary signs the document of Japan's surrender aboard the USS Missouri.
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JAPAN - 1945 - Douglas MacArthur makes a speech on the deck of the USS Missouri before the first member of a Japanese delegation signs the official surrender document.
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NEW YORK CITY - 1957 - International dignitaries shake King Saud's hand after his address to the United Nations, including Dag Hammarskjold and Ambassador Wadsworth.
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1930s - In this Frank Capra documentary narrated by Walter Huston, Lord Lytton and Secretary Stimson oversee a League of Nations investigation of Japan's invasion of Manchuria, ultimately condemning it.
1933 - Maxim Litvinov, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, is invited to the United States by FDR.
1945 - In this documentary directed by Frank Capra, Secretary Cordell Hull reads the memorandum from Japanese envoys given to him before the Pearl Harbor attacks, effectively declaring war on the United States.
1937 - A Japanese dignitary and his wife receive press attention on a visit to the USA.
1941 - Chinese forces fight back against Japanese invaders. Envoys Saburo Kurusu and Kichisaburo Nomura go to Washington DC as the Pearl Harbor attack happens (narrated in 1945).
1954 - General van Fleet and his wife are welcomed to Seoul by President Rhee and the First Lady.
1941 - Envoys Saburo Kurusu and Kichisaburo Nomura leave Washington DC and Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor (narrated in 1963).
1941 - In this documentary directed by Frank Capra, Japanese planes attack US Navy bases at Pearl Harbor while Ambassador Kurusu and Admiral Nomura visit the State Department (narrated by Walter Huston in 1945).
1941 - In this Frank Capra documentary narrated by Walter Huston, Japanese envoy Saburo Kurusu signs the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Germany, and an animated map shows Italy and Japan's plans for global conquest (narrated in 1942).
1940 - Secretary of State Sumner Welles and diplomat Myron Taylor arrive in Italy by ship.