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People seen demonstrating in the United States as Red China is denied admission to the UN General Assembly.
United Nations General Assembly bars the People's Republic of China, aka 'Red China' from the UN during a General Assembly meeting in the New York. A taxi passes in front of UN headquarters. Demonstrators, mostly Americans of Chinese descent march in protest on the street. They hold signs in Chinese and English. Phrases seen on signs include, 'Don't let Chinese Reds shoot their way into the UN,' 'Chinese Reds must be punished by UN,' and 'Down with Red China.' Officials entering the UN building. Interior of the UN General Assembly. Duchess of Kent Katharine, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge present among the dignitaries.
United States Army aircraft airlift supplies to China over The Hump air route during WW2
Airlift of supplies from India to China through “The Hump” during World War 2. Barrels of oil in Allied airfield in Assam, India. Sikh Indian laborers, wearing Dastar turbans, load supplies on a plane as an American soldier watches. Man welding. Dismantled airplane equipment. Shirtless American soldiers inspect equipment before boarding plane. A Curtiss C-46 Commando takes off. Three planes of the American Transport Command fly over “The Hump”. Map showing flight route change from Dibrugarh, India to Kunming, China. A C-47 Skytrain flies over mountainous jungle, misty fog, and high mountains of the Himalayas. Various views of the Eastern Himalayan Uplift. A Curtiss C-46 Commando lands in Kunming, China.
Japanese expedition to travel across Chinese desert to Yellow River.
The traveling route of a Japanese expedition in Northern China. Animated map shows Japan and China and route across Ordos Desert in Northwest China to the Yellow River, taken by expedition. Steamer plies the ice-laden river. Automobile travels through several city gates in China. Landmarks and monuments in Ordos City, China.
Construction and completion of the Ledo Road from India to China during World War II
Film opens showing road sign reading: "LEDO Mile 00.00." Scene shifts to rail lines at terminus of the Assam-Bengal railroad in the Indian Province of Assam. Surveyors are seen working in jungles. Engineers use machetes and construction machinery, like caterpillar tractors, to cut through the dense growth. Others saw and chop down trees and use explosives to clear the land. Explosives are seen detonating and tractors clearing the debris. Earth moving equipment and jack hammers being used to form a roadbed. View of two engineers setting and detonating a charge in a rock. A steam shovel loads earth into a dump truck. Road scrapers work in parallel to smooth the dirt roadbed. View of road after monsoon rains reduced one roadbed to a sea of mud and another inundated by water. To avoid these problems, rebuilding efforts begin by construction of causeways and bridges. Teams of workers lay planks for this. Closeup of worker tightening a clamp on a pontoon bridge under construction. Work gangs rolling and placing heavy logs as part of a bridge. Workers use a crane to lift segment onto a steel bridge under construction. Men bulding wooden and steel truss bridges. Aerial views from an airplane flying over various sections of the finished Ledo Road. A truck covered by a painted canvas reading: First Convoy over the Ledo Road, Pick's Pike Lifeline from India to China." Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick, Chief Engineer for the project, is seen, next, shaking hands with Lieutenant General Daniel Isom Sultan, Commander India-Burma theater, as he prepares to lead the convoy. View of the convoy starting out, led by the decorated truck. (Narrator states the road was now called, "The Stillwell Road." Views of the trucks proceeding and crossing causeways and bridges. Aerial view of the road twisting and turning across the high mountains. The convoy arriving in Kunming China greeted by Chinese troops and flags. Later, the convoy drives through the city streets of Kunming, with General Pick standing in a jeep, leading the way, and crowds of Chinese people cheering from the sidelines. In final scene, General Sultan states that the next project is a pipeline along the road.
Senator J. William Fulbright in TV interview about China in United States.
Senator J William Fulbright in United States. Television interviewer asks Fulbright about Communism and China. He asks whether he equates them with Adolf Hitler. Fulbright denies saying China has a totally different history. He says that after Opium War Chinese have reason to hate west and people of west must try to rectify the wrong beliefs about them. He says that we (senators) give advice to the President about what a common man thinks and feel about President's decisions. Fulbright talks about Russian decisions in Cuban War and other wars.
United Nations acts to free 11 American airmen held by China.
United Nations acts to free American airmen held by China (Arnold-Baumer espionage case). U.S. delegate Cabot Lodge speaks before United Nations General Assembly regarding censure of communist China for holding 11 on board the aircraft on spying charges. Members of the General Assembly seen.