Children from Foreign Embassies express Christman good wishes in Washington DC. Children stand on stage. Allied flags on stage. Young children dressed in traditional costumes. Children from China, Canada greets the people of America. They wish Happy New Year and Merry Christmas.
Newspapers being printed in Japan soon after end of World War 2. Newspaper printing press machines running. People gathered on streets, where some rubble and destruction from war is still seen. People assembling and speaking freely in public. Japanese work at Press office and publish the news about democracy. Newspapers published. People buy newspapers and read. People read the posters. Postwar land reform program redistributes land to Japanese farmers, most of whom, were formally only tenants They shovel, dig the soil and sow the seeds. They harvest the crops.
Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg Germany. Nazi war leaders with earphones sit in the prisoner's dock. Voice of Justice William Norman Birkket is heard in background accounting historical events in the second half of the 1930s as Nazi power grew. View of prisoner's dock, prosecutors and judges sitting in tribunal. Justice Birkket speaks on issues like the Violation of defense law by Hitler, German economy for war, rebuilding of German Armed forces, violations of the Treaty of Versailles, and construction of new submarine arms.
Exterior of an Irish Government Building in Dublin. Prime MInister Eamon de Valera addresses officials. Views of country side in Ireland. Irish ham and bacon and care and raising of pigs and cows on farms. Farmers plowing in fields, and peat is mined with large harvesting machines and cut into briquettes. Activities in beer brewing (Guiness wooden barrels seen lined up at a brewery) and auto industry with a Ford assembly line in Cork Ireland. New cars on the assembly line being assembled by Irish workers. A Dunlop rubber processing plant in Cork Ireland. Rubber boots being manufactured at the Dunlop plant. The Shannon hydroelectic scheme power project in Limerick region of Ireland; views of the power plant and the river Shannon from which it draws power. View of the hydroelectric dam. Men working atop a large electric transmission tower. Women examine an electric table top mixer for the kitchen. A woman using an electric iron on clothes, and a view of an electric waffle maker and toaster. Streets of Dublin busy with activity. Clocks, shirts, ties, and cutlery in shop windows of Dublin, along with blankets and other goods all made in Ireland. Physicians and nurses gather in a surgical theater of a hospital. Newborn baby being washed in a maternity ward. Public housing construction efforts shown transforming older thatched cottages into modern homes. Signs in ancient Gaelic are shown, recently restored as the national language of the independent Eire. Irish schoolboys enter a school building. Many have no shoes and enter the school house barefoot. A teacher instructs the school boys in the classroom.
News from Middle-East. A ship arrives at a harbor in Palestine. European Jewish refugee men, women and children step out of the ship from Europe and board a bus. Security guards stand all around the place, monitoring the incoming refugees. Narrator comments that only 1500 Jewish refugees per month are being accepted in Palestine. Scene shifts to Amman the capital city of Transjordan. The streets, houses and buildings. Citizens enjoy their forthcoming independence from Britain. Palace of King Amir Abdullah of Transjordan. Dignitaries arrive for a ceremony. King Abdullah and other officials review a cavalier parade of soldiers and armed troops on camels.
British forces in Japan celebrating British Empire Day after conclusion of World War II. Marching troops of Commonwealth forces at British Empire Day ceremony in Tokyo. Marching troops and bands of Cameroon Highlanders, Indian Troops, Royal Air Force from England, troops from New Zealand, Australian troops. Commander in Chief Lieutenant General John Northcutt and other officers review the marching troops.
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