United Nation Forces retreat during the Korean War following the Red Chinese aggression. Entrapped United States 1st Marine Division men reach Hamhung, Korea. Soldiers loaded in trucks as they come to Hamhung from Chosin Reservoir. A Chinese prisoners with a solid ice sheet around his feet. United Nation forces being evacuated from Hungnam. Military trucks and vehicles being loaded aboard Landing Ship Tanks and ships. Litter wounded being transferred onto landing crafts. Troops aboard the landing crafts. Troops being transferred onto a ship from the crafts. U.S. Major General Smith and soldiers at a grave yard during a burial as a man blows a bugle. Soldiers lined up as they pay their last respects to the dead.
Korean War and the World politics of the times. United States President Harry S. Truman during an address in Washington D.C. states that United States believes in a peaceful world order. He also hints of nuclear weapons use in Korea if peace is threatened. United States forces in Korea face the Red Chinese armies. Artillery being fired and explosions occur at the front. At the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York representative of Republic of Korea questions the Chinese delegates regarding the Chinese aggression on Korea. United States delegate Warren Austin also expresses worry over the fate of world peace in the light of Korean War.
Greek children being released along the Greek Yugoslavian border. Men at the Greek Yugoslavian border as Greek children captured by the Red guerrillas during the civil war are released under the aegis of the Red Cross. Children and woman loaded onto a vehicle. A girl thanks Colonel De mellow. Children hold apples and oranges and wave after being released from captivity.
Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu being released on parole in Tokyo, Japan. Japan's war time foreign minister being released on parole after completing four years of imprisonment out of seven years. Shigemitsu bids adieu to prison officers at the gates of Tokyo's war criminal penitentiary. He gets aboard a ship and sailors on the ship.
A boxing match in Paris, France between Sugar Ray Robinson from New York and Jean Stock of Paris. The two men battle it out in the boxing ring. Sugar Ray Robinson wins the bout during his first European tour.
A documentary 'Avalanche to Order' about the dangers posed by avalanches in the mountainous regions of the United States. Snow covered mountains as men and women ski along the slopes. A man ski down a slope. An area affected by Avalanche in Alta, Utah. Aftereffects of the avalanche like uprooted trees. Army personnel arrive for rescue work in the area. Machines being used to clear snow from an area. Dozer pushes the snow and rotary blows it up. Men clear the snow with shovels. A wrecked car being recovered from under the snow.
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