Joint Allied Control Commission Conference in Berlin,Germany. Joint Allied Control Commission Conference in session to resolve the conflicting economic and political policy. Members of board and representatives of four nations General of the United States Air Force Joseph T. McNarney,Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov and Marshal of France Alphonse Pierre Juin attend conference. United States Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes addresses German civilians on Vital policy at Stuttgart in 1946. U.S. Ambassador Robert P. Murphy,Senators Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg,Matthew Connelly and General Joseph T. McNarney seated at speaker's stand.
Animated map shows the four different zones of Germany after World War II.: British, Soviet, French and American Zone. Animated map focuses on the Soviet zone and shows the Iron Curtain rising along the Soviet Border. Russian troops march through streets in Berlin. Civilians board trains on streets. Russian woman directs traffic. Damaged buildings in the background. Russian officers enter and leave Headquarter in Berlin. East German men and women workers on farms. Russian soldiers and East German civilians pull heavy machinery for shipment to Russia. Interior of the Dresden China Works. Civilians mold and paint china articles.
French officers in Germany after World War II. Animated map focuses on French Zone of Germany. German countryside: Potsdam streets. Marshal of France Alphonse Pierre Juin and staff at a conference. German prisoners march out of courtyard and stand alongside their cells. French officers inspect the area.
Coal strike ends in Washington DC. President of the United Mine Workers (UMW) of America, John Llewellyn Lewis arrives at the UMW building. U.S. Senator Henry Styles Bridges also arrives. Photographers take photographs. Lewis and coal operators remain seated at office after the agreement. Lewis addresses the gathering. Bridges meets with Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Joseph William Martin for the settlement. Railroad loaded with coal moves on track.
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO). Activities of members of the United Nations guard force supervising the Truce in the former British Mandate in Palestine during timeframe of Arab-Israeli War. Several uniformed personnel arrive in jeeps at the scene of a destroyed automobile. One of them has UN painted on his helmet and shoulder insignia identifying him from Denmark. They examine the wrecked car and the road where a mine or some kind of explosive created a crater. Several armed soldiers arrive on the scene. Two pairs of soldiers greet each other and shake hands.
General strike in Rome Italy. Strikers marching into Rome, carrying signs. The Reparto Celere, a special jeep-riding riot squad of the Italian police, disperse rioters using jeeps, clubs, and a light tank. A Reparto Celere Autoblindo AB41 armored car in Via delle Mantellate. Several views of rioters being beaten with clubs. Some are apprehended.