 Center in Washington, preparations are in full swing for the World Security Conference at San Francisco. Through this center flows a steady stream of plans and messages to and from the participating nations of the world. Secretary of State Statenius, Soviet Ambassador Gromyko and British Ambassador Earl Halifax represent their countries in preliminary arrangements. Foundations for the San Francisco meeting were laid last year at Dumbarton Oaks by these three nations and China, represented here by Ambassador Tao Ming Wei. Assistant Secretary of State Archibald McLeish explains the basic purpose of the World Security Organization. It is not simple but dare to stop wars and improve the lot of men by bringing nations together around the table to discuss their common problems, to remove the causes of war and to stop wars by every means, peaceful and forcible from starting. First of United States Admiral of the Fleet, Chester Nimitz on the island of Guam. Under his five-star flag, Admiral Nimitz orders the opening of another smashing Pacific offensive, this time against the Ryukyu Islands stretching in a long chain directly southwest of Japan. First, combined forces attack the Karamareto group off the Ryukyu. Then the large island of Okinawa, great Japanese sea and air base. The mighty fifth fleet puts to sea. General Simon Bolliver Buckner directs operations of the amphibious force, one of the largest in history. Off Karamareto, heavy bombardment begins. The defense is on shore. Light opposition, pillage is taken. The island's civilians are assembled under the direction of the American military government. Islands are one. So Okinawa, largest and most important in the strategic Ryukyu Islands, comes under final attack. These garrison puts up almost no resistance on the beaches, Formosa, the China coast or Japan itself only 365 miles away. After yielding vital ground, the enemy here has now begun to fight back, but he will be destroyed and Okinawa will be Eric Johnston and Philip Murray meet to sign an agreement to promote cooperative post-war industrial relations in the United States. Jim Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, signs for his union. For the Council of Industrial Organizations, Philip Murray, president. And representing business management, Eric Johnston, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Through this new charter, labor and management agree to preserve in peacetime the harmony which has been a solid base for the vast American war production achievement. The continent and in England, thousands of airborne troops prepare to strike in support of the Allied ground armies which are raging through central Germany. Veteran American and British parachute and glider-borne veterans of the first allied airborne army form the assault force. Many groups on the Montgomery, Bradley and Evers, 1500 troop carrying planes are off. From both sides of their big transports, American paratroops spill out and land swiftly down safely, but some crack up on landing. As for the offensive, they advance on enemy positions and jeeps which landed with them, striking to help complete the annihilation of the German armies.