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U.S. President Eisenhower and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge speak about U.S. intervention in the Lebanon Crisis.
United States intervention in the Lebanon Crisis. U.S. Marines reaching the coastline of Lebanon. The Marines climb out of rafts. People watching the Marines. U.S. bomber aircraft in flight. Lebanese people on a beach. U.S. Marines unloading ammunition from the rafts. The Marines holding guns moving into the city of Beirut. The Marines guarding Beirut International Airport. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower during a speech says that U.S. intervention could have serious effects. He says that the United States is neither looking for any material gain nor has it any emotional hostility against any government. The sole aim is the preservation of independence of every state. Several aircraft on an airfield. U.S. 2nd Marine Division enplaning at Cherry Point in North Carolina, U.S. Soldiers holding equipment beside the aircraft. The soldiers walking in columns. Several aircraft on the airfield. U.S. Army airborne troops beside the aircraft. The troops getting into the aircraft. Airborne troops from Germany at Adena air base in Turkey. British paratroops from Cyprus boarding aircraft bound for Jordan. A Royal Air Force aircraft takes off. U.S. aircraft carrier USS Leyte in a harbor. Supplies carried on cranes. U.S. sailors speaking over telephones in phone boxes. Sailors holding cartons moving on a ramp to a vessel. Officials at the United Nations building during a meeting. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Henry Cabot Lodge speaking into a microphone. Officials beside the Ambassador. The Ambassador calls for decisive action by the UN and says U.S. Marines will be withdrawn in accordance with the UN action.
Jews flee to Israel; formation of Israel; Egyptian aircraft raid the town of Tel Aviv.
The state of Israel is formed. Refugee settlement tents in an area and people behind a barbed wire fence (possibly Jewish refugee camp in Cyprus where immigrants to Israel awaited political negotiations). A ship in a harbor. Jews board the ship. The Israeli flag hoisted aboard the ship. People get onto the ship. A man and a woman aboard the ship while it is underway towards Israel. Men load cargo onto a ship. Jews aboard a ship as they wave. Two men shake hands. Traffic on a street in a city in Israel. Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion arrives and enters a building. A flag of Israel on the top of a building. An Egyptian aircraft in flight over Tel Aviv. A damaged building after an air raid. Dead bodies of Israeli people in streets after a bombing. Soldiers find a cache of ammunition and hand grenades in crates. Also found is a Nazi German book with a swastika symbol. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers on the observation deck of a watch tower of what appears to be a liberated prison or detention area. Israeli soldiers in formation on a street.
Iranian students work in laboratory, professor teaches anatomy, Muslim woman in medical consultation, rural road in Greece
Various landscapes showing rugged mountain terrain, Ancient Greek ruins and fortifications in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Iran. Iranian students, including one woman, measure chemicals inside laboratory. A professor teaches anatomy using a 4d model during a lecture. Professor points to lungs of model. A Muslim woman in medical consultation with a young female doctor and nurse. Donkeys carry bales of hay in Greece. A farmer leads donkeys to side of the road as a transport truck drives near. View of rural road in a mountainous village in Greece as seen from driver’s seat. Cars and pedestrian crossing new bridge. View of a small mountain village in Greece.
Jewish refugees from the Haganah immigration ship Haim Arlozorov disembark in Palestine.
Jewish refugees the Haim Arlozorov are transferred to a transport ship for eventual processing in Cyprus. Jews from Europe attempting to enter Palestine on the refugee ship Haim Arlozorov stand on the deck of a transport ship while others wait to disembark. A young Jewish man looks at the camera as he waits to disembark. A British soldier holds back a refugee to allow others to disembark. Jewish refugees, some bandaged due to injuries sustained while fighting the British, walk up the gangplank onto the dock. British soldiers on the dock while refugees stand behind barbed wire.
Demonstrations against the Communist government in Poznan and civilians celebrate as Soviets yield to Gomulka in Poland
A Mercedes auto exhibition in Poznan Poland in June 1956 before unrest took hold during Polish uprising of 1956. Flags of various nations at the show and Mercedes cars on display. A rebellion leader arrives and addresses demonstrators gathered in Poznan to protest the Soviet-led Communist government in Poland. Aerial view of Poznan Poland in 1956. Tanks of Soviet military arrive and are seen among the demonstrators. A court room during trial of the demonstrators' leaders. Workers and demonstrators gathering and meeting. Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Poland. His plane is seen landing and he walks down the steps from the plane to the tarmac. Wladyslaw Gomulka is tapped to lead the Communist party in Poland. He is seen speaking to a group assembled. Image of Konstantin Rokossovsky who Gomulka had removed from power after he had led military actions against the reform demonstrators in Poznan. Citizens in Poland celebrate Gomulka's ascension as Communist party leader and his anti-Stalinist reforms. Soviet tanks depart from Poland. English Newspaper headline "Poles sweep Stalinists from Power, Gomulka heads Freedeom Setup." A priest accepts flowers and gifts from people celebrating the return of freedom of religion in Poland.
Communist demonstrations in Budapest and Russian invade Hungary at time of Hungarian Revolution.
In 1956, crowds of Hungarians walk peaceably in their Capital, Budapest, calling for establishment of their own style of communist rule. A woman waves a Hungarian flag from a window. A communist star is pulled down from atop a building. On October 24, 1956 Hungarian authorities crack down, with police supported by Russian troops from local garrison. Russian soldiers in T-34 tanks seen on city street. View of Russian soldiers leaving the area aboard a T-34 tank. Hungarians battling their police. View of Prime Minister,Imry Nagy, ascending steps of a government building. Narrator states that Nagy declares Hungary neutral in conflict between Soviet Union and the West. Soviet books and documents being burned. The next sequence shows Soviet T-34 tanks entering Hungary in force, on November 4, 1956. One is seen firing from a city street. Picture of Imre Nagy shown as Narrator says his execution was announced on June 17, 1958.
