Summary: A review of the year's events, in film extracted from previous issues.
Description: US 'Friendship Train' scheme (137,148); school meals in British Zone (103?); death of Gandhi (141,143); winter Olympics (143); Prague political crisis (147); Brussels Treaty (149); marriage of ex-King Mihail of Rumania to Spanish 'Princess' in Athens (new)(?); Marshall Plan (140, 152, 182); Italian elections: anti-Communist victory, de Gasperi speaks (new)(153); Frankfurt Centenary celebrations (157); Palestine crisis (159); currency reform (161, 162); Berlin Blockade (various); Tito's split with Moscow (163); London Olympiad (167-9); Parliamentary Council meeting in Bonn (172); 700th anniversary celebrations at Cologne Cathedral (new)(169); reviving exports (174); jet plane progress (stock Meteor film); coal production (178); coronation of Queen Juliana (175); UNO session in Paris (176, 181); high prices protest and Jedermann Programme (172, 183); Commonwealth Conference (179); death of Franz Lehar (179); US Presidential election (180, with new material); Chinese Civil War (? 86, with new material); winter in Berlin (various) and west; sector elections (new)(185); announcement and official celebrations of birth of Prince Charles (new)(185). The seven items identified as 'new' are not held by the archive in the original issues.