Dignitaries arrive at 10 Downing Street in London, England. A sign board reads 'Downing Street'. People walking down the Downing Street. British Home Secretary Samuel John Gurney Hoare arrives the 10 Downing Street in staff car. Secretary Hoare gets into the building. Photographers take pictures. French Premier Edouard Daladier and Georges Bonnet arrive at 10 Downing Street.
Foreign Minister for the National Committee for Liberation Rene Massigli (French Diplomat) in London, England. French Diplomat Rene Massigli gets into a car and leaves. British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Anthony Eden comes out of a building and leaves in the staff car. A guard walks in front of the building with rifle in hand. Plaque, on the wall, of Viscount Gray of Falloden.
British people prepare for war in London, England during World War II. Group of workers dig trenches and fill sandbags. Tents in the background. Crowd watches from fenced area. Workers make a sandbag wall. Young boy watches through the fence.
Legislators entering a hall in Czechoslovakia, in 1948. Inside,an image of the Small Coat of Arms of the Republic of Czechoslovakia (1920) dominates the scene. New scene shows Gustav Husak, acting Prime Minister, delivering an address urging support for the Communist Party. The next sequence shows violent Communist-led demonstrations, as armed trade unionists riot in the Prague streets, attacking the offices of the political opposition. Police attempt to restore order. On February 25, 1948, the communists achieve a Czechoslovak coup d'état. On February 27th, Czech President, Edvard Benes, receives a delegation including communist Premier Klement Gottwald and the 12 new members of the cabinet, at the Presidential Palace. He is seen signing documents accepting the communist cabinet. Change of scene shows Czech Foreign Minister, Jan Masaryk, giving a speech rejecting the change. (He remained in office, but died under suspicious circumstances on On March 10, 1948.) View of Masaryk in his casket. Mourners at his funeral.The Czech Parliament Building with flag at half staff. President Benes seen strolling, using a cane, accompanied by his wife, Hana Benes, in the garden of their summer home, Benesova vila, in Sezimovo Usti. Narrator notes that he refused to sign a new constitution drawn up by the communists. He died of natural causes at his villa on September 3, 1948. Scenes of his funeral and of him in his casket. Views of Benes' state funeral, with mourners lining the streets. View of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Narrator describes circumstances using Churchill's term "Iron Curtain." A communist parade in an Eastern European city. A person who was roughed up on the street. View of East German uprising in 1953, being suppressed with Soviet tanks. Uprising in Poland in 1955 being put down by local police and Russian soldiers. Polish musicians playing and examples of Polish political cartoons permitted under relaxed communist rule.
The 14th Monaco Grand Prix race in Monte Carlo. Top Formula One car racing drivers of Europe drive their race cars at great speed on the streets of Monte Carlo. French, British and Italian F1 drivers compete in the race. Britain's Stirling Moss wins the race in his Maserati.
Arabs back Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser on seizure of Suez Canal, in Cairo. President Gamal Abdel Nasser speaks over the microphone. Indian Diplomat Krishna Menon disembarks from an Air India flight. Russian delegates disembark from the aircraft. Representatives of 22 Nations attend the London Conference. British troops at airport ready to use force if the Conference fails.
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