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March 6, 1948 - Cold War And Filibuster.

March 6, 1948 - The Cold War and The Filibuster. Reports of communists infiltrating West German labor unions. Coup in Czechoslovakia. Palestine Partition left up to U.S. and USSR. Filibuster heating up on Capitol Hill, being led by Dixiecrats against Civil Rights legislation. Three Power Conference on Germany held in London without Soviet Union. Harry Bridges ousted as CIO President.

Communist rally in East Berlin - and a lot more in the future.

Harry Bridges was ousted as President of the CIO with calls for his deportation back to Australia. Such was the love in that room.

All this, and it was only the morning news via John Cameron Swayze and The NBC News Of The World.

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