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Pierre Laval speaks and pleads in his defense during his trial for treason, Paris, France.
Trial of Pierre Laval in Paris, France. Interior of the Courtroom. A huge crowd seated in the Courtroom. Judges sit in the Courtroom. Judge Lliontignbeaux presides the trial. Pierre Laval rises. He speaks and pleads in his defense. Papers on desk with name Pierre Laval. Clerks hand out papers. Former President of the Armistice Commission General Dayan takes oath and speaks. Senate Secretary Charles de la Pommeraye speaks for the prosecution. Former French Ambassador Leon Noel. Courtroom shows the empty seat of the accused. Headline in the newspaper 'Stars and Stripes'. Headline reads 'Laval Guilty-Doomed to Die'.
Ukrainians and Belorussians, who fled to France to escape poor treatment under Polish domination, return home after 20 years.
The Soviet ship Vyacheslav Molotov is seen, docked at the French port of Le Havre. A crane raises cargo onto the ship. Ukrainian and Belorussian passengers stand on the pier, ready to board the ship that will take them to their former hometowns. One woman walks up the gangplank with a flag and a carryall displaying the image of Joseph stalin. On the pier, French Army officers process the embarking passengers, as a Soviet Army officer stands nearby. Closeup of documents being stamped. (Narrator states that these refugees fled their homes for France, 20 years earlier, when they were under the domination of Poland.) The Soviet officer encouraging passengers up the gangplank. View from high on the ship, of passengers clustered around the processing station. Camera pans up to the ship's funnel, where Soviet hammer and sicle is displayed. View from behind people waving on the dock, of the passengers lining the railing of the ship, waving goodbye as the ship slowly begins to move forward and then is seen underway. Scene fades to reopen showing the ship in waters of the Black Sea approaching the port of Odessa, Ukraine. Buildings seen upon cliffs overlooking the port. Several views of the passengers assembled on deck looking toward shore. Closeups of passengers and their flags. A Ukrainian woman gives a speech about her joy at homecoming. Other passengers applaud. A man holds up a homemade sign reading (in Russian) "LONG LIVE SOVIET-HOMELAND I-EE-GOVERNMENT." Passengers disembarking down the gangplank, carrying flags and riding in open small trucks away from the ship.
Prosecution witnesses Paul Renaud, Louis Moran, Albert Lebrun and Michel Clemenceau during Petain's trial in Paris.
Trial of Philippe Petain at Palace of Justice (10 Bd du Palais, 75001 Paris, France) in Paris, France. Petain's advocate Fernand Payen speaks. Spectators seated in the Courtroom. Advocate Mornett assails Philippe Petain. Prosecution witnesses Paul Renaud, Louis Moran, Albert Lebrun, and Michel Clemenceau in the Courtroom. Newspaper men report by phone to their newspaper office. Two girls on a telephone switch board. A newspaper journalist or reporter writes and types his report of the events on teleprinter and typewriter. The United States war correspondents.
U.S. Army soldiers attend classes at Army University Study Centers, receiving job and skills training after World War 2.
A post-war film shows U.S. Army soldiers studying in barracks and in foreign universities immediately after World War II. Students at a campus in France as they walk on a pathway. Courses being offered to the soldiers. Several posters with the subject names in the background. The officers seated at a desk. A soldier takes books. Soldiers attend an animal husbandry class and examine livestock in a yard area. Students in an engineering class as they draw different drawings on paper at drafting tables. A chemistry lab. The students perform experiments and are seen working with test tubes and graduated cylinders. A woman works with clay and a U.S. soldier fashions sculpture of a dog out of clay. An officer seated on a desk and the students stand in front of him and make notes during journalism and correspondence classes. U.S. Army students in art classes. A woman holds a ball and poses. The students draw her form. The Geology class. Soldiers walk in trenches and a few stand as they make notes after observing a geologic sample. Group of U.S. Army soldiers play tennis. An officer seated in a chair. They play basketball. Soldiers seated on the field. Soldiers being awarded with diploma certificates after 4 or 8 week courses. They are gathered at a graduation ceremony receiving diplomas that they can use in applying for college credit. Students seated in a class. A French woman teaches them. Two soldiers walk among the buildings of a French campus.
United States President Harry Truman and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri
United States President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The speakers recognize College President Franc L. McCluer and Missouri state Governor Phil M. Donnelly. President Truman praises Churchill. Prime Minister Churchill addresses the assembled intellects and dignitaries at the meeting in his "Sinews of Peace" address. Truman says Churchill "Is a great Englishman. But he's half American." During this famous speech which became known as the "Iron Curtain speech," Churchill thanks the college for giving him an honorary degree. He describes the times as "anxious and baffling." He says the U.S. "stands at the pinnacle of world power" and that it has an "awe-inspiring accountability to the future." With a "sense of dutydom, and anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement... Opportunities here now, clear and shining for both our countries."
Ho Chi Minh at labor rally
French colonials, carrying French tricolor flags, and Vietnamese civilians, carrying North Vietnamese flags, mingle with French and Vietnamese military and officials, outside airport. men carry a huge banner. The banner reads 'Viet Nam Lao Dong Lien Doan', meaning: Vietnam Labor Union. A group of young Vietnamese women, carry flags and chant. Small Vietnamese children wave flags. A DC-3 aircraft, with North Vietnam flags in the windows, taxis to a stop. North Vietnamese leader, Ho Chi Minh, emerges, followed by Jean Sainteny, delegate from the High Commissioner of France. Ho Chi Minh is immediately surrounded by high ranking French officers and officials and press and photographers. A little Vietnamese girl presents him flowers. Ho Chi Minh makes a public statement into two microphones covered by hankerchiefs (to muffle wind?).