 new Ascender plane. With its elevator controls in the nose and its motor and propeller in the rear, this push-propelled fighter reverses conventional airplane design. Developed experimentally as the XP-55, the new plane gives forward vision for the pilot and a clear path for his gunfight. In action, the darting tail-first Ascender seems to fly backwards. At Santo Tomá prison in Manila, a surprise visit by General MacArthur marks the greatest mass liberation of civilians in the Pacific. 3,700 internees, mostly British and American citizens, are freed. But even as they rejoice, there is a final burst of fire from the retreating enemy. At last, the internees gather for evacuation back home. Pitifully undenourished, they can still chop wood to cook their new army rations. From home, after three long years, the Red Cross distributes letters from loved ones. These internees had thought they might never hear from again. Leaving Santo Tomá is hailed by the liberated prisoners who have found freedom after years of suffering under the Japanese. Secretary of State, Statenia, arrives in Mexico City and joins Assistant Secretary Nelson Rockefeller in detending the Inter-American Conference at Mexico's historic Chapultepec Palace. The heads of the United States delegation are welcomed at the Mexican Chamber of Deputies as this important new world meeting opens. Inter-American economic and cultural relations within the framework of the World Security Organization to be set up in San Francisco take first place in the Mexico City discussion. To the statesman of the Americas is Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho, who arrives to greet the delegates and inaugurate the conference. It's Mexico's Foreign Minister Padilla. The Conference of the Americas is formally open. And now, Sus, our French Army troops, veterans of African warfare. Now, in stiff street fighting, they advance past the dead. The Red Cross women are with them. One is wounded. The first French tank to enter Colmar. Here again is liberation. Here, happy people. Here again, bread. But on the Western Front, American troops fight their way forward. Because of the rough terrain, mules have been brought up from Italy. Here, combat goes on in the heaviest snow in 80 years. While the infantry advances, 4.2 mortars fire over their heads. This is the start of one of the great barrages. The word artillery is called for. The order goes through underground headquarters and back to the guns. Hungry, call to the point of exhaustion. Some drag their wounded in on sleds. For others, there is no need. On the Western Front, through the dragon's teeth of the sick-freed line in an advance which takes them to the Rhine. In Washington, President Roosevelt arrives to report to Congress. Members of the Cabinet and Supreme Court attend the special joint session. The president is seated in the well of the house. Home from the Crimea conference, he asked nonpartisan support for the agreements reached there. We also agree that it has been, so far, a fruitful one. Speaking in all frankness, the question of whether it is entirely fruitful or not lies to a great extent in your hands. For unless you are here, you here in the halls of the American Congress with the support of the American people, concur in the general conclusions reached to the place called a Yalta, and give them your active support, the meeting will not have produced lasting results. There were two main purposes in this Crimea conference. The first was to bring defeat to Germany with the greatest possible speed, with the smallest possible loss of allied man. The second purpose was to continue to build the foundation for an international accord that would bring order and security after the chaos of the war, that would give some assurance of lasting peace among nations of the world. The conference in the Crimea was a turning point. I hope in our history and therefore in the history of the world, it will soon be presented to the Senate and the American people a great decision that it will determine the fate of the United States and I think therefore the fate of the world for generations to come. There can be no middle ground here. We shall have to take the responsibility for world collaboration. Or we shall have to bear the responsibility for another world conflict. And I am confident that the Congress and the American people will accept the results of this conference as the beginnings of a permanent structure of peace, upon which we can begin to build under God that better world in which our children and grandchildren, yours and mine, the children and grandchildren of the whole world must live and can live.