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A Communist parade in Paris,France.
Anti-communist propaganda piece in the 1950s: A Communist parade in Paris,France. Communist demonstrators chant slogans like 'Stop the War in Indo-China', Down with warfare',' Unite with Russia for world peace'. People carry signs and banners reading 'France', 'US Go Home' and many more. A mock attack by a boy on another boy dressed up as an American Miltary Police. A union of French women with banners reading phony title for a communist front organization. Big replica of Stalin's party line novel. Main body of procession includes parade by Communist-led trade unions. A parade of French military might in an other part of Paris. Thousands of French soldiers armed with rifles march on a tree-lined street. People gather in great numbers to witness the parade. A parade of French trucks,artillery and tanks.
South Korean President Syngman Rhee addresses a Joint Session of the Congress in Washington DC.
South Korean President Syngman Rhee in the United States. He addresses a Joint Session of the Congress in Washington DC. Officials gather in a large number in a hall. They give a standing ovation to the South Korean President. The officials seated in the hall. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon seated with the officials. Rhee stands at a podium and addresses the officials. He urges for U.S. air and naval support for an attack on Red China.
Representatives of different nations arrive to discuss Korea and Indochina problem at a peace conference in Geneva.
Geneva Peace Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Venue of the Geneva Peace Conference. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives for the conference. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden at the conference to discuss Korea and Indo China problem. Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles also arrive to attend the conference. Delegates from different countries seated around a table discussing the issue.
Vietnamese refugees disembark gangway as USS Bayfield arrives in Saigon harbor during Operation Passage to Freedom in Vietnam.
Operation Passage to Freedom in Vietnam. USS Bayfield (APA 33) at anchor. Bayfield at sea. Deck of Bayfield. Sign: "Passage to Freedom". Deck of Bayfield as ship pulls into Saigon, Indo-china. Bayfield with LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) ahead coming into Saigon harbor. Deck of Bayfield with Vietnamese refugees aboard. Sailors carry stretchers with wounded being carried down gangway. Nuns coming down the gangway. Sailors help them with luggage. Refugees come down the gangway. Refugees disembark at "Freedom Pier".
China builds Burma Road to carry war materiel and supplies and creates flood of Yellow River to thwart Westward expansion of Japanese occupied territory
Japanese officials meeting in strategy session. Japanese infantry on mission to cut Chinese supply lines during 2nd Sino-Japanese war. Black smoke rises as they move along a river bank. Chinese prisoner-workers are forced to rebuild railroads destroyed by the Chinese people during their great Westward trek. Japanese soldier closely guards workers. A Japanese army armored train underway on the rebuilt railroad, as Japanese soldiers cheer. Animated map shows China's supply lines by sea, to Tsingtao, Hangchow, and Amoy, cut off by Japanese naval blockade. Japanese Navy launch with officers and crew moving near commercial ships as they take over Chinese river ports. War materiel and other supplies destined for China, including trucks, sit idle, unable to be transported to their destinations. Large oil tanks and drums of gasoline are shown, as well as gun barrels and a flightline filled with parked Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft. The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Asakaze (DD-3) and another, next to it, in a Chinese river port. A Japanese freighter with anchored weighed, secured by long lines to a wharf. Small boats flying Japanese Naval ensigns are next to it. View of map showing china, Burma, Indo-China, and Chungking, with Japanese blockading fleet stationed in the South China Sea. It traces path of narrow gauge rail line from Indo-china to Kumming,China, where it connected to an overland road to Chungking. Next it traced the old Camel Caravan route, across China, from Russia. Narrator notes these were to small to be useful and too close to Japanese-occupied territory. Next, the map traces a railroad that from the port of Rangoon to Lashio, Burma. It is separated from the road to Chungking, by mountains and gorges. Views of the actual mountainous terrain. Animal pack trains moving through the area. Construction engineers in a large drafting room designing a road to transit the area. View of modern road-building caterpillar tractor equipment of the type needed to accomplish this. View of Chinese laborers using manpower instead. They push large rollers and employ pickaxes and other hand-held tools to carve away and dig road beds. Masses of Chinese laborers at work, carving a road along the edge of a mountain. Two-men teams using manual tampers to pound down the roadbed. Children are employed along with adults. A woman with a baby on her back, pounding large rocks into gravel, surrounded by other children doing the same. View from above of the "Burma Road," the product of their labors, winding its way through the mountains and gorges. Many scenes of trucks moving along portions of the Burma Road. P-40 airplanes flying past white cumulus clouds, overhead. Animated map shows continued expansion of Japanese occupied areas to encompass two thirds of the rail lines in China with goal of controlling the remainder, starting at Chengchow, in Summer, 1938. View of Chengchow region, on banks of the Yellow River. Map illustrates flow pattern of the Yellow River. View from past of the Yellow River's Spring floods toward the Sea, with Chinese people throwing rocks onto dikes that keep the river flowing in a more Northerly direction than its former course. Illustration shows how with Japanese encrouching on Chengchow, the Chinese decided to destroy those dikes and allow the river to flood over its former more Southerly course. Japanese soldiers being inundated by the flooding river. Japanese infantry and tanks regrouping on their occupied side of the new (old) path of the Yellow River. Local Chinese residents of Chengchow, wade with belongings as they leave their flooded homes.
Public Hearing, Senate permanent subcommittee on Investigations. Army-McCarthy hearing April 22, 1954.
April 22, 1954. First open session of Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations in response to charges filed by the U.S. Army on April 13, 1954, concerning improper actions by Senator McCarthy and staff to obtain special treatment for Private G. David Schine, U.S. Army. Seen before start of session are Army Generals Lucius Clay and Alfred Gruenther. Senator Karl Mundt presiding, calls the session to order. Among those seen are Senator Edward Dirksen, second person to the Chairman's right, and Senator Charles E. Potter to Dirksen's right. Senator John L. McClelland sits to Chairman Mundt's left. Senator Joseph McCarthy and his counsel, Roy Cohn, are at the end of the table. At end of clip McCarthy states for the record that "there is no contest between Senator McCarthy and the Department of the Army, and that all that Senator McCarthy has been trying to do is to expose the Communists who have infiltrated the Department of the Army -- a very small percentage."
