Delegates arriving and speaking at the first meeting of the United Nations' Preparatory Commission in London

Exterior Church House, Westminster / Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain Wellington Koo and party arriving / Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko and party arriving / Dr. O. Benjamin Gerig, United States principal adviser and alternate delegate, arrives with party / Philip Noel-Baker, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs for Great Britain, arrives / delegates and staff in meeting hall / Koo is seated at table / Gromyko sitting next to Noel-Baker at table / France's delegate Rene Massigli seated at table / SOT Koo stands and speaks (speaking English ) on the commission's purpose / SOT interpreter seated at table speaking French