Female students from UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles, join boy students in a mud battle when sophomores gain the upper hand over their male classmates in Los Angeles. Groups of college students wrestling in the mud hazing ritual. Girls wearing skirts join tug-of-war in the mud. A boy pushes a girl into the mud. A girl wearing pants covered in mud is also seen. All combatants are covered with mud as they throw mud at each other and wrestle in the mud. A girl wipes the mud off from her face.
Prime Minister of United Kingdom Clement Attlee arrives at the airport in Washington D.C. He is greeted by dignitaries. Prime Minister Attlee arrives at White House for talk with President Truman relating mainly to atomic bomb control. President Truman pays tribute to those who died in World War at the 'Tomb of the unknown soldier'. Prime Minister Attlee and Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King accompany him in the ceremony after which conferences will take place.
German P.O.W.'s (Prisoner of War) freed after living for ten years in Russian jails. They return to Germany. The prisoners on the railroad tracks. Relatives cry and hug them as they reunite. Welcome speeches by the officials.
During the Great Depression, thousands of veteran soldiers, mostly of World War I, gather at the offices of the Wayne County Council in Detroit. The unemployed ex-servicemen rush following Henry Ford's offer to employ residents of the locality who had served in military service. Ford plant seen. Several former soldiers drink beverages while several others smoke.
Refugees scramble for freedom soon after First Indochina War. Children seen in huge crowd. People carry a banner reading 'Long live mutual assistance, Spirit of Western Powers'. People wear local hats. Red troops poise on the outskirts of Haiphong ready to take over the city as the French troops leave Vietnam. Red troops march in the streets.
Animated maps show the conquest of low counties and France. German bombers and Stukas in flight. The German Luftwaffe aircraft blast Dunkirk. Enemy bombers shot down. German Air Force Strafe at the harbor and enemy warships. German pilots seated at the controls in the cockpit. German antiaircraft batteries fire at British ships of Dunkirk. (World War II period).
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