SMALL WORLD {MAYOR WILLY BRANDT, JAMES B. CONANT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH FOOTE} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of informal and topical conversations with guests speaking from different geographical locations. Host Edward R. Murrow speaks with Willy Brandt, the mayor of West Berlin, James B. Conant, former U.S. High Commissioner to Germany and President Emeritus of Harvard, and Michael Mackintosh Foote, former British Labor Minister and newspaperman. Participants discuss the problems of East and West Germany and the crisis in Berlin. The program opens with the subjects of negotiations with Russia over the two Berlins, free elections, and nuclear arms in Europe. Edward R. Murrow talks about the position of Western leaders on Berlin. The program closes with an exchange on the problem of compromise and preconditions in negotiations between democratic and communist nations. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: January 25, 1959 6:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:29:22
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T78:0460
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: Germany - Officials - Talk/Interviews; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Great Britain - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Communism - 1959; Berlin Question, 1945-
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1958-1960
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Fred W. Friendly … Producer
- Edward R. Murrow … Producer, Host, Moderator
- Palmer Williams … Associate Producer
- Natalie Foster … Associate Producer
- James B. Conant … Guest
- Willy Brandt … Guest
- Michael Mackintosh Foote … Guest