Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visits China. Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong and the Foreign Minister of the Peoples Republic of China Zhou Enlai greet Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Chinese people cheer as they drive through the streets in a cavalcade of cars. Mao Zedong and Jawaharlal Nehru attend a reception. Nehru, Mao Zedong, and other Chinese leaders visit a steel mill in Manchuria. They watch the production process.
Chinese civilian refugees evacuate war affected places as Mao Zedong's Communist forces advance in mainland China. Masses of Chinese refugees loyal to Nationalist China (Republic of China) flee war torn areas and move with their belongings. Men haul carts loaded with luggage. A camp site. Children eat at the camp.
Brief view of the Great Wall of China near Beijing. A stone bridge in the imperial Forbidden City (4 Jingshan Front St, Dongcheng, Beijing, China, 100886) in Beijing. Graphics full screen show dates "1913" , "1924", "1925", "1927" , "1931" and "1936." Montage covers Chinese civil war, Soviet invasion, Kuomintang fight with British forces, dispute in Hankow, and Manchurian outbreak. A hand flips a page on a document titled “The Report of the Commission of Enquiry of the League of Nations to the Sino-Japanese Dispute 1912”. Highlighted section reads, “Banditry has always existed in China and the administration has never been able to suppress it thoroughly...."
Japanese soldiers with bugles lead a procession of troops in Northern China. Chinese children hold Japanese flags. Occupied North China under Japanese control. Chinese men in suit and tie bow to a saluting Japanese general. Cheering Chinese women. A Chinese woman smiles while holding her baby. Chinese men and women crowd a marketplace. A woman wrapping her vegetables. Rickshaw drivers napping. Children attend school under Japanese guard. A boy holds his sister’s hand while going to school. Boy removes cap and bows to Japanese soldier as he enters school. Northern Chinese children attend class. Northern Chinese residents stroll parks, fine Western and Chinese buildings and shrines. A Chinese pagoda. A Tibetan Stupa in China.
U.S. Navy carrier planes hit oil fields in the China Sea. A storm in the China Sea. U.S. Navy 3rd fleet carriers on a ship. A diagram shows an arrow on the South China Sea. The fleet moves forward towards Japanese bases. U.S. airplanes bomb Japanese targets. Carrier planes return back to the ship. A plane crash lands on the ship. The pilot of ship is hurt and stuck in the cockpit. The crew runs toward the plane and gets him down. A diagram shows an arrow from the South China sea to IndoChina, Saigon. A tanker is torpedoed by U.S. planes. Bombing on Saigon. An oil reserve on fire. (World War II period).
Meeting of a committee in the United States. Officials seated inside a building. U.S. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley addressing the officials. He talks about the United States policy towards China during World War II. Discussion about the mutual aid pact with China. He states that the U.S. always want the unity and democracy of the Chinese people. He declares support for a democratic China under the national government of the Republic of China, and Chiang Kai-shek.