Events around time of division of India into separate states of India and Pakistan. Lord Mountbatten declares India as a free country in Karachi and New Delhi. Crowd gathers at the India Gate to celebrate the freedom. Lord Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten in jeep. Celebration in the cities. Mohammad Ali Jinnah addresses people. New flag of Pakistan flies on the flag pole. Officers and Mohammad Ali Jinnah salute. People walk on the street of free India. Jawaharlal Nehru addresses people. Indian flag on the flag pole.
Shows government workers in Mexico pasting Government's Oil Company's Posters over American and other foreign oil companies posters, during Mexico's nationalization of oil commerce operations as a state owned activity starting in 1938. Posters of companies such as Sinclair, Ductos,Pierce oil,Aquila,California Std. Oil Co. and several other replaced with government's oil posters 1938.
Anti-communist propaganda: Narrator speaks popping out of his car in the Communist slums of Paris, France. Clothes hang on the balcony of a house. A woman stands on a fire escape balcony. Back alleys of the Communist slums. Men and women do their daily chores. Four kids, arm-in-arm, walk in an alley. A boy sits near a box of firewood. Children play ball near fence plastered with Communist slogans. 'US Go Home' written on a wall. A wall with several anti-Communist posters pasted on it. One poster shows Stalin's cartoon holding a peace sign in one hand and a club in another. Another poster depicts an armor plated dove with its beak symbolizing a gun. A poster shows Stalin's cartoon dancing above the satellite states and his dagger pointing at the heart of France.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower at his White House press conference addresses the nation. He states that Russia's success with the first earth satellite (Sputnik) during the Space Race doesn't indicate a lag in American satellite and ballistic missile research. President Eisenhower further adds that the Vanguard satellite program had not received the same amount of attention as American ballistic missile work, and that speed of progress in satellites cannot be interpreted as a measure of progress in ballistic missile work. He says that American satellite work has never been part of a race with any other nation, and rather has been scheduled as part of the IGY's (International Geophysical Year) scientific work. He praises the American satellite program for being well designed and properly scheduled to achieve the scientific purposes for which it was initiated.
Shows a woman suffering from Dementia Praecox (Schizophrenia) talking to a psychiatrist at the St Elizabeth Hospital mental care facility in Washington DC. She explains to the doctor about her improved state of health after undergoing electro-shock treatment (or shock therapy).
The funeral of Samuel Cardinal Stritch in Rome, Italy. A car drives past the North American College in Rome (Via del Gianicolo, 14, 00165 Roma RM, Italy). Priests in black cassocks enter the North American College to attend the funeral of Cardinal Stritch. Cardinals, priests, and nuns pay their last respects to Samuel Cardinal Stritch. View of Cardinal Stritch's body lying in state in a room.
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