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Madrid-Barcelona Express train derailed killing 30 and injuring 60.
View of train wreck site where Express train derailed and plunged down steep embankment in Catalonia, Spain. The event occurred on the Barcelona-Valencia railway line between Mora La Nueva and Els Guiamets. Reportedly, 40 persons were killed and 60 injured in the tragedy. Views of the fallen train and cars. Workmen repair track high above on the railroad bed. Communist sabotage is blamed
The visit of First Lady of Argentina, Eva Peron, to Spain, where she is hosted by Francisco Franco.
The First Lady of Argentina Eva Peron in Spain. Eva Peron with Francisco Franco and other dignitaries in a hall. The dignitaries and official greet Eva Peron. An official decorates the First Lady. Civilians hold flags and crowd on the streets. The First Lady and Francisco Franco stand in a balcony. She waves to the civilians. A large crowd gathered. Men click pictures in the background. The civilians cheer and wave. They hold flags and banners. Policemen control the crowd. Eva Peron sits in a car and leaves. People crowd around the car. The First Lady with other dignitaries and officials seated on a stage. People dressed in traditional costumes dance. Women greet Eva Peron and present her with dresses and jewelry as gifts. People in the hall applaud and cheer. The civilians crowd at an airport. Eva Peron boards an aircraft and waves to the civilians.
Testing of Pescara Number 3 helicopter in a large hangar.
Crowd gathered around viewing early helicopter with multiple tiers of rotating blades. Various VIPs attending the demonstration, including Argentine inventor of the helicopter, Raúl Pateras Pescara. View of people looking at helicopter. Tests in Issy France outside a large hangar shows helicopter rising from ground about six feet and then landing. Action is repeated. View of rotor blades, rotor columns and fuselage section of helicopter.
View of the Alhambra palace and Court of Lions in Granada, Spain.
Various sites in Granada, Spain. Panoramic view of the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain (C. Real de la Alhambra, s/n, 18009 Granada, Spain). The Alhambra fortress shows its Spanish Medieval Islamic architectural style. Views of the city of Granada in Spain. View of the Court of the Myrtles, the central part of the Comares Palace, and the Court of the Lions inside the Alhambra complex.
Communism growing over Central and Eastern Europe after World War 2, and development of Marshall Plan.
Events after World War II. Harvesting in U.S. farms. Closeup view as a tractor plows fields. Men on horseback driving sheep. Woman serves a Thanksgiving turkey dinner to her family gathered at a nice dining room table in the United States. Her children look at the food with smiles. Contrasting scenes show Europeans starving amid post-war ruins. Women and children looking for food. A child in a soup line. Women wait in a line to receive grain that is weighed on a scale (possibly Soviet area). Globe spins. Joseph Stalin and other Soviet officials watch a military parade in Red Square in Russia. Retrospective scenes of the meeting of Russian and U.S. troops at the Elbe River late in World War 2. Communist rally in Paris. A protester holds up a hammer and sickle symbol. A demonstration of protestors in Athens, Greece, and another Communist demonstration in Rome, Italy. Map depicts communist control growing over Central and Eastern Europe early in Cold War. High aerial view of Washington DC with a lower altitude airplane flying over the U.S. Capitol. Exterior view of State Department (Old Executive Office Building) in Washington DC. View of Secretary of State James F Byrnes working at his desk. Byrnes speaks of U.S. role in world affairs while at a conference in Stuttgart, Germany. Scenes from a meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in 1947. Scenes changes to North Portico of White House. Swearing in ceremony of George C. Marshall as Secretary of State. President Harry S Truman shakes hands with Secretary George Marshall. Night view of London landmark buildings. View of door at No. 10 Downing Street in London. View of brutal winter conditions in Europe in February 1947. Citizens try to dig out a train stuck in snow. Women in line in Britain for a rationed good, still saddled with its own postwar reconstruction. Narrator relates that Britain was unable to continue to provide massive military and economic aid to the Greek regime and appealed to the U.S. to handle the situation. Secretary of State Marshall and President Truman seen talking together in front of a fireplace mantle. Marshall boards aircraft for a visit to Moscow. Truman in a White House meeting, seated at oval table with his advisors and cabinet. Truman addressing joint session of congress on March 12, 1947. He asks for funds for Greece and Turkey. Globe highlights USSR. Door sign reads 'Policy Planning Staff - George F Kennan - Director'. Director Kennan seen at his desk. He advocates a long term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. Reconstruction in Europe. Ground level and aerial views of bomb destroyed European cities, and workers cleaning up rubble. Brief scene from the meeting of 16 nations in Paris on July 3, 1947. Scenes from United Nations meeting held in Lake Success New York in September 1947. George Marshall at podium addressing delegates of UN. Russian delegate Andrey Vyshinsky commenting on Marshall Plan. Signing of Marshall Plan agreement by international delegates meeting in Paris in September 1947.
War damaged buildings and Francisco Franco waves to people at the end of war in Madrid, Spain; Dolores Ibárruri flees Spain.
The Spanish civil war ends in Madrid, Spain. Aerial view of the houses in the city. A wrecked building. Damaged window panes of a building. A bombed out building. People on street. Captured ammunition being kept on ground. People carry a basket of bread. Civilian refugees of war in a chow line. A child eats food while wrapped in a blanket. A man eats sitting on a bench. Nationalist Cavalry troops march. Nationalist Head of State of Spain Francisco Franco disembarks from a car. People salute to Francisco Franco. He waves to people from a balcony of a building in Madrid. People gather. Next scene shows a railroad train station in Paris France, as Dolores Ibárruri (Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez or also called "La Pasionaria"), a Communist Party, Spanish Republican heroine, exits the train station to a waiting car. She is in exile from Spain, and on her way to Russia.
