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Senator Mansfield talks in regard to Foreign Policy in the Pacific and Formosa in a television interview.

A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. News correspondents Larry Leseur and Bill Costello talk with Senator Mike Mansfield, from Montana. Senator Mansfield talks in regard to Foreign Policy in the Pacific and Formosa (Taiwan).

Date: 1953
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040247
Senator Mansfield talks about Chinese Communists and allied forces in South East Asia.

A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. News correspondents Larry LeSueur and Bill Costello talk with Senator Mike Mansfield, from Montana. Senator Mansfield talks in regard to Formosa (Taiwan) and Chinese Communists. He states that if the Communist Chinese launch attack on islands off the mainland then there will be war. Allied forces talk in South East Asia. He also says that the United States has given recognition to Red China by asking UN to help obtain ceasefire in Taiwan.

Date: 1953
Duration: 6 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040248
Formosan girls sit around a table during a tea ceremony and passengers in a parlor car look at countryside in Taiwan.

An express train in Formosa, Taiwan. Formosan girls sit around a table during a tea ceremony. The girls walk over a bridge and through a garden. A Formosan girl stands holding a flower. She puts the flower in a running stream. A close up of the Formosan girl. The girls on the bridge look at a boat in the stream. An express train moves on tracks. People seated inside the train. A parlor car of the train. Passengers look at countryside. The train moves past a railroad station and Formosan countryside. Animated map of train route from Taihoku to Taichou.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Taiwanese
Clip: 65675069164
Seventh fleet stands guard in the straits between Formosa and Red China, China Sea.

American troops aboard ships of Seventh Fleet underway in China Sea. Fleet stand guard in the straits between Taiwan (ROC) and the communist People's Republic of China. Planes take off from the carrier Essex for daily patrols and practice. Aircraft in flight over water. Planes make landings on carrier's deck.

Date: 1955, May 30
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052563
A group of school children on mountain expedition and campers across footbridge to further ascend mountain in Taiwan.

A film shows the geographical features of Taiwan. A view of the mountainous area. A camper with a bag on his back looks at the mountains. A house in between the mountains. The houses surrounded by the mountains. A view of clouds over the mountains. A group of campers wake in morning and look at cloud formations below them. The campers with bags hanged on their back climb steps on the mountains and set off across footbridge to further ascend mountain. A camper heading towards the footbridge. Flowers that grow in mountainous ranges of Formosa. A group of school children on mountain expedition. The children climb up the mountain. They walk on a footbridge. A view of the mountainous area. A house surrounded by the mountains.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675069927
Demonstration of Communist China against United States peace bids in Taiwan Strait, China.

Supply convoy reaches Quemoy in China despite the communist Chinese blockade, during Cold War. Ships carry the supplies at sea. Men on landing craft at the sea. Men on deck. President Chiang Kai Shek arrives at a press conference in Formosa. He opposes reduction of garrisons on the off-shore islands. Mainland China rebuffs United States peace bids with an enormous Chinese propaganda demonstration in Peiping (Beijing) on the grounds of the old Imperial Palace. Communist Chinese demonstrate with boards, placards and flags in hand. A huge crowd gathers at the palace grounds and decries what it calls American aggression in the Taiwan strait. President Zhou Enlai addresses the massive crowd.

Date: 1958, October 2
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027976