Mix of actor portrayals and actual footage: Church, homes and schools of America. Various United States soldiers. Views of German soldiers. German soldiers marching in a parade ground. Rulers and dictators of Germany: Adolf Hitler (World War II), Kaiser Wilhelm II, Otto Von Bismarck who laid identity of Germany as Nazi, Huns, and Prussians respectively. Historic overview of Germany. Princes and feudalistic rulers of the states. In contrast the US, French and British parliamentary system. King Frederick, the Great of Prussia with his cavalry and in his court. Prussian war against Austria, Russia, Sweden, France. German women wave for victorious troops. Portraits of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Dictums of Clausewitz, crushing of the 1848 revolt in Prussia. Germans emigrate to the U.S. Otto Von Bismarck addresses the ministry his policies of blood and iron.
Goodyear managers observe a model of the globe. George Hinshaw shows Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chairman and CEO of Goodyear, the route taken by a team of Goodyear managers returning from Sweden to the United States. Management from Sweden come to Akron Ohio as the Goodyear rubber plant in Sweden was shutdown due to a wartime shortage of rubber. Various managers from the closed Goodyear operation in Sweden walk down the gangplank from their ship at dock, including Twisty Monk, Bob Wilson, Lee Young, and others. Press interviews Bob Wilson. Mrs. Walter Condon, wife of the Goodyear Australia Superintendent arrives at Akron Airport to visit her ill mother. View of United Airlines DC-3 taxiing to a halt, and Mrs. Condon emerging from the plane.
Trade Fair in Osaka, Japan. Sign in front of an exhibit reads: 'Sweden freezer'. Many Japanese visitors stand near the Sweden Freezer. A woman hands out ice cream cones to the visitors. Woman prepares soft ice cream cones from machine and demonstrates it. She speaks about the company product and its quality. Signs identify 'Sweden Soft Server' and 'Sweden Shake Maker'. Woman makes shake and demonstrate shake making machine. She serves shakes, from a pitcher, to visitors at the Fair.
Italian luxury ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinking off Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Aerial view of the Italian Liner Andrea Doria lying sideways in the North Atlantic Ocean after its collision with SS Stockholm. Damaged prow of SS Stockholm. Passengers of SS Andrea Doria brought to SS Stockholm in life boats. Aerial view of both the ships in the ocean.
Swedish Royal carriage carrying King Gustaf V, and wife the Queen, Victoria of Baden, drives past Swedish Royal Guards. King Gustaf V, wearing a very thick coat and a cocked hat, and Queen Victoria alight from the carriage, with valets assisting the royal couple. The King and Queen of Sweden shakes hands with Royal Guards. The Queen walks with her husband to the port to launch a warship, based on porthole count and arrangement on stern, possibly HSwMS Sverige or HSwMS Drottning Victoria, both of which launched from Gothenburg. These were Swedish Sverige-class coastal defence ship (Pansarskepp) vessels.
Uppsala Cathedral during funeral rites of Dag Hammarskjöld, former Secretary General of United Nations in Uppsala, Sweden. Garlands on Hammarskjöld's casket. King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden honors Hammarskjöld. Other dignitaries are present at the ceremony. Among them is 15-year-old Crown Prince Carl Gustaf, Duke of Jämtland, who later became King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden. Priest performs last rites. United States Vice President Lyndon B Johnson and Ambassador to United Nations, Adlai Stevenson pay homage to Hammarskjöld. The flower-covered casket is carried on streets of Uppsala atop a horse-drawn wagon. A large crowd walks behind the casket. People honor Hammarskjöld by salute. United Nations and national flag are lowered in salute during the burial.
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