Large crowd gather during the event to honor Eric Johnston in New York. The Award of Merit. A woman honors Eric Johnston with Award of Merit. Eric addresses after taking the award.
A car on snowy road at Sherridon, Manitoba in Canada. Whole town moves on trailers, 167 miles north to Lynn Lake. Snow on trailers. Houses settled.
People throw oranges on each other during Orange throwing festival at Ivrea in Turin, Italy. Large crowd gather to celebrate the traditional festival.
Two men on armchair bicycles as they are going for round the world tour, in Italy. They ride bicycles. People on road watch them.
Athletes running on track during K. of C. Athletics meet in New York City. Don Gehrman fails in a try for a double victory in the half mile. Large crowd gather. Gehrman makes a try in second race but loses to Fred Wilt.
General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, in uniform, salutes as a band plays the U.S. National Anthem. He is standing before a battery of microphones, on the steps of the State Legislature in Jackson, Mississippi, next to U.S. Senator, James O. Easland. Scene shifts forward to Senator Eastland delivering a speech of introduction for MacArthur (who had been relieved of his commands, 11 months earlier, by President Harry S. Truman). MacArthur places his notes on the podium and the crowd gives him sustained applause. MacArthur begins by thanking Eastland for the introduction, and addresses the members of the State legislature and citizens of Mississippi. He praises the traditions and contributions of the South to the Country. Film stops momentarily and picks up again as MacArthur says America stands at a crossroads, where one path follows to the principals and ideals upon which rested our country's past grandeur. He says on the other lies the arbitrary rule of men leading to the ultimate loss of constitutional liberty. View of crowd applauding. MacArthur criticizes weakness and vacillation as undermining America's moral leadership of the world. He criticizes U.S. Government domestic spending and reckless dissipation of America's national assets. Intermittent views of crowd receptive to his remarks. He remarks about U.S. Government "propaganda," and quotes Benjamin Franklin, saying "A half truth is often a great lie."