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Prosecution talks about sending of Japanese troops in China during World War II at a war crimes trial in Tokyo, Japan.
The war crimes trial in Tokyo, Japan after World War II. Prosecuting attorney, Mr Joseph B. Keenan questions Japanese former Minister of Education Koichi Kido. Officials seated in the court room. Keenan trying to establish that a Minister of Education in Japan was more than the title. It implies that he was a leading member of the government in formulating policy. He talks about the sending of a large number of Japanese troops in China by Kido serving under Prince Klanoe's cabinet. Officials discuss amongst themselves.
French Forces in Indo China continue stubborn mopping up operation against entrenched Vietnam rebels in Indochina.
The Indo China War in Indochina. Army trucks move in rebel held towns. French soldiers carry wounded men on litters. Troops fire artillery. Dead people on the ground. Natives sitting. Huts and houses of a town on fire. French soldiers move in the streets. The troops are in action for mopping up entrenched Vietnamese. Vietnamese are being transferred onto a truck.
French Overseas Minister, Marius Moutet, with staff and military officers aboard a transport aircraft over French Indo China
French military officers seated in a transport aircraft in flight over Indochina. Marius Moutet, French Overseas minister, seated at a table with associate. They read newspaper and book and look out the window. Minister Moutet waves symbolically, out the window. Low level aerial views out airplane cockpit window of several buildings, including Angkor Wat, in Cambodia and a Cathedral. View of many small boats in and on the shore of a river.
China's problems of industry, famine, agriculture, and excess population under the Communist rule of Mao Zedong
'Red China' depicts the living conditions in China under the Communist regime of Mao Zedong. A Chinese man dances with another performing a Dragon dance on stage in China. Traditional Chinese pavilions and structures, including the Forbidden City in Beijing. Chinese citizens of various ethnicities in the People’s Republic of China. Modern Chinese buildings and structures. A map of Asia shows China. Monuments including the Great Wall in China. Farmland of the North of China. Crowded streets in China, men pull rickshaws on the streets. People dance and march during the celebration. Narrator speaks of shortage of good farmland and notes that the Chinese people are "on a diet" (during the great famine) of 1600 calories daily per person, compared to the United Nations recommendation of 2100-2300 calories. View of crowded encampments and poor, under fed people in narrow streets. Chinese miner works in a coal mine. Strip mining for iron ore. Chinese oil production including refineries. Dances and celebration during various events. Chinese Young Pioneer girls practice ballet. Chinese youth perform acrobatics and stunts on stage. Chinese women and children laugh and cry. Young girls learn ballet, elderly men greet each other. North China: Herdsmen with sheep. Wheat farmers harvest wheat. South China: Rice farmers in fields. Women sew, farmers pose for the camera. Women work in a factory, people on the road. Chinese Christians attend church. Hui Chinese men pray inside a mosque in China. A large statue of Buddha inside a Buddhist temple. Chinese riding camels. Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong reviews a parade during the "Great Leap Forward" timeframe, preceding the Cultural Revolution.
Events of 1947: Marshall plan aid; Communists demonstrating in Europe; meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers; the Freedom Train touring America
Industrial scenes in America with a factory with smoke from chimneys, a steel factory in operation, views of the tops of railroad train coal cars filled with coal. Secretary of State George Marshall speaks about providing European countries with material and money (Marshall Plan). He is seen speaking to legislators in Washington DC on November 10, 1947, asking for funds for Austria, Italy, and France "to provide the supplies necessary to permit the people of these countries to continue to eat, to work, and to survive the winter." Truman signs an interim aid bill, S 1774 on December 17, 1947. View of Eiffel Tower in Paris and communists marching and demonstrating in France. Communist demonstrations across Europe. Police monitor communist protestors in Italy, and then disperse a crowd of communists. Winston Churchill arrives for peace conference meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in London in December 1947. Vyascheslav Molotov attends the conference. George Marshall talks with Molotov. View of the Friendship Train railroad train in the United States approaching on railway tracks during its tour. Also a view of the 1947 special exhibit Freedom Train traveling. Citizens board the Freedom Train at one of its train station stops, to view artifacts and exhibits about American democracy, including a 1823 facsimile of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Exterior view of U.S. Supreme Court building. Statues at the Supreme Court building. The base is inscribed 'The Heritage of the Past is the Seed that Brings Forth the Harvest of the Future'. A group of American boys and girls are seen reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. A larger group of children reciting the pledge and viewing an American flag fluttering in the wind. View of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, and then another view from the top of the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building looking outward.
French patrol boat sailing off French Indochina Coast.
Islands and shoreline can seen from the rear of French patrol boat sailing off French Indo China Coast. French sailor pulls anchor chain. Officers on barge of French patrol boat. A sailor throws out anchor from the boat. Shows anchored French patrol boat. Passenger ship 'SS Pasteur' pulls toward the patrol boat. Sailors on patrol boat watch as they pass the passenger ship 'Pasteur'. Shows two sailors seated on the bow of patrol ship. 'SS Pasteur' and two native Junks(Chinese sailing boats) move away from the French boat.
