Britain's Lord Mountbatten offers Indian leaders an unconditional plan for freedom in New Delhi, India. Members of All-India Congress headed by Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru hear British offer of dominion status.
Events around time of division of India into separate states of India and Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten declares India as a free country in Karachi and New Delhi. Crowd gathers at the India Gate to celebrate the freedom. Lord Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten in jeep. Celebration in the cities. Mohammad Ali Jinnah addresses people. New flag of Pakistan flies on the flag pole. Officers and Mohammad Ali Jinnah salute. People walk on the street of free India. Jawaharlal Nehru addresses people. Indian flag on the flag pole.
North Korean officials along with their families arrive at the railway station in North Korea.Several people gather to meet and bid farewell. Officials and their families receive bouquets of flowers and farewell from relatives and friends as they depart for czechoslovakia for 5 years.
Shows awarded officials and workers seated in the Transportation Workers Meeting in North Korea.Officials take up the podium and make their speech.Pictures of Joseph Stalin and Prime Minister Kim II Sung can be seen in the background. PM Kim II Sung along with other dignitaries arrives and takes the dais on the stage.PM Kim II Sung addresses the assemblage.Attendees applaud at the speeches.Dignitaries present a flag to an official. Approximately 1948.
French general De Lattre De Tassigny and Emperor of Vietnam Bao Dai inspect Vietnamese troops and tank units in Nhatrang Vietnam.Troops line up and salute. Vietnamese tank crew at attention. A yacht anchored offshore can be seen. The General, Emperor and other officials raise a toast on the yacht.
The French naval blockade off the French IndoChina coast.French naval soldiers aboard a French vessel, traverse an antiaircraft gun.French sailor armed with gun stands on guard on deck. Vietnamese sailors dock their wooden boats(junks) to the French vessel.French sailors inspect papers and cargo of the junks.The vessel moves on after the inspection.
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