News of the Day No 5

Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Iceland to the USSR P. Torsteinsson presents his credentials to KE Voroshilov in the Kremlin. Finland, Helsinki. The signing at the USSR embassy of the final protocol on the transfer of the territory of Porkkala-Udd by the Soviet Union to Finland and the property located on it. The protocol is signed by: M.G. Pervukhin, Lebedev, U. Kekkonen, I. Virolainen. Workshop of the Ural Heavy Engineering Plant. Plant director Glebovsky talks about the plant's production plans. Workshop of the Yaroslavl textile plant "Krasny Perekop". The weaver VF Usova is working. Repair of tractors in the workshops of the Vladimir machine-tractor station. Repaired tractors leave the station territory. The ceremonial meeting at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Austrian composer W.A.Mozart. The composer Yu. A. Shaporin is performing. Present: Nikita Khrushchev, AI Mikoyan, KE Voroshilov, Austrian Ambassador to the USSR N. Bischoff. Scene from the opera "The Marriage of Figaro" performed by artists of the Bolshoi Theater. Shoe department of the Central Department Store in Moscow. Buyers choose shoes. The department inspectors identify defective shoes produced by the Parizhskaya Kommuna factory. Concert of amateur performances of workers and employees in Moscow and the Moscow region at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR.

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