An honor guard salutes as United States Vice President Richard Nixon arrives in Vietnam. A row of Vietnamese honor guards saluting. United States Vice President Nixon and Vietnamese officials stand as soldiers are introduced. Close view of a Vietnamese soldier saluting to Vice President Nixon. Vietnamese official introduces soldiers to Vice President Nixon as camera flashes from photographers taking pictures.
The Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The British Royal Family moves out of the Buckingham palace. Honor guards in horses during the royal procession to the Westminster Abbey. The golden coach carrying Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip (the Duke of Edinburgh) takes the queen to her coronation in Westminster Abbey. A large procession accompanies the Royal family to the Abbey as people throng by the roadside to cheer the family. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Canadian Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent, also form part of the procession. At the Westminster Abbey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Francis Fisher, administer a solemn oath to Elizabeth II. Dressed in a white garment she sits into a chair under a gold and silk canopy for benediction as she is anointed with holy oil. Elizabeth's four-year-old son, Prince Charles, watches the ceremony as his grandmother Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, explains him the proceedings. Archbishop Fisher places the St. Edwards crown onto Elizabeth's head. Elizabeth II is enthroned as the Queen of Great Britain. Royal Peers vow to the Queen and first among them is her husband and Duke of Edinburgh, Phillip. After the ceremony, the new Queen along with her family moves back to the Buckingham palace. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police escort the royal family back to the Buckingham Palace. A large crowd throng outside the Buckingham Palace as Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Phillip along with their two children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, appear in a Palace gallery.
After the division of Berlin, workers in the eastern part of the city protest against the Communist regime. Workers protest on streets by setting ablaze various parts of the city of East Berlin. Police arrest a number of protesters and Soviet military tanks roll on roads to control the situation. Communist flag torn down from Brandenburg Gate by protestors. With support from Marshall plan the people of West Berlin start rebuilding the city with the aid provided by United States and other countries. Views of the city undergoing transformation and rebuilding following World War II.
Repatriated prisoners arrive at a U.S. camp in Korea where a sign reads 'Welcome: gate to freedom'. They are helped down from military trucks as another American soldier checks their names from a list. After they get off, the trucks move away.
An American helicopter lands in Korea as local people look on. An injured Korean soldier is carried on a stretcher into a truck. A soldier carries another injured soldier on his back to the truck.
United States Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles and Korean Minister, Pyun Young T'ao, sign the US-Korean Mutual Defense Treaty . After signing the papers they shake hands. Dulles is seen as he leaves the building, in the company of U.S. officials, including John Cabot Lodge who accompanies him in his departing car. Others exit the building including the U.S. Commanding General in Korea, Maxewll Taylor.who enters his own car and departs.
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