Events after World War II. Harvesting in U.S. farms. Closeup view as a tractor plows fields. Men on horseback driving sheep. Woman serves a Thanksgiving turkey dinner to her family gathered at a nice dining room table in the United States. Her children look at the food with smiles. Contrasting scenes show Europeans starving and living in poverty amid post-war ruins. Hungry women and children looking for food. A child in a soup line. Women wait in a line to receive grain that is weighed on a scale (possibly Soviet area). Globe spins. Joseph Stalin and other Soviet officials watch a military parade in Red Square in Russia. Retrospective scenes of the meeting of Russian and U.S. troops at the Elbe River late in World War 2. Communist rally in Paris. A protester holds up a hammer and sickle symbol. A demonstration of protestors in Athens, Greece, around time of Greek Civil War, and another Communist demonstration in Rome, Italy. Map depicts communist control growing over Central and Eastern Europe early in Cold War. High aerial view of Washington DC with a lower altitude airplane flying over the U.S. Capitol. Exterior view of State Department (Old Executive Office Building) in Washington DC. View of Secretary of State James F Byrnes working at his desk. Byrnes speaks of U.S. role in world affairs while at a conference in Stuttgart, Germany. Scenes from a meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in 1947. Scenes changes to North Portico of White House. Swearing in ceremony of George C. Marshall as Secretary of State. President Harry S Truman shakes hands with Secretary George Marshall. Night view of London landmark buildings. View of door at No. 10 Downing Street in London. View of brutal winter conditions in Europe in February 1947. Citizens try to dig out a train stuck in snow. Women in line in Britain for a rationed good, still saddled with its own postwar reconstruction. Narrator relates that Britain was unable to continue to provide massive military and economic aid to the Greek regime and appealed to the U.S. to handle the situation. Secretary of State Marshall and President Truman seen talking together in front of a fireplace mantle. Marshall boards aircraft for a visit to Moscow. Truman in a White House meeting, seated at oval table with his advisors and cabinet. Truman addressing joint session of congress unveiling Truman Doctrine on March 12, 1947. He asks for funds for Greece and Turkey. Globe highlights USSR. Door sign reads 'Policy Planning Staff - George F Kennan - Director'. Director Kennan seen at his desk. He advocates a long term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. Reconstruction in Europe. Ground level and aerial views of bomb destroyed European cities, and workers cleaning up rubble from bombing in World War 2. Brief scene from the meeting of 16 nations in Paris on July 3, 1947. Scenes from United Nations meeting held in Lake Success New York in September 1947. George Marshall at podium addressing delegates of UN. Russian delegate Andrey Vyshinsky commenting on Marshall Plan. Signing of Marshall Plan agreement by international delegates meeting in Paris in September 1947.
The first Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate in Chicago, Illinois. Sander Vanocur from NBC News asks Republican candidate Vice President Richard M. Nixon about executive leadership and his governmental executive decision-making experience. Nixon answers and states that the President of the United States does not disclose instances where official family members have made recommendations. He states that he has given advice to the President whenever he has asked. He has been a part of the National Security Council, the cabinet and has met legislative leaders. He compares his experience in the executive branch with that of Kennedy's in the legislative branch. Democratic candidate Senator John F. Kennedy presents his views and states that there is no certain road to the presidency. He tells that he have met decisions on matters which affect not only the domestic security of the United States, but as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Aerial views of snow-covered Camp Ashigawa Hokkaido, Japan, home of the 2nd Division, Japanese Ground Defense Forces Northern Corps. Japanese self defense force engineers assemble a Bailey Bridge. Defense Force personnel cross the new bridge in a half-track armed with antiaircraft guns Officers of 2nd signal unit, surrounded by snow banks, work on map reading exercise. Members of 2nd artillery regiment do practical exercises in setting up and operating a 155mm howitzer, in the snow. Members of the Aviation section practice emergency receiving and sending messages from ground to air. A light airplane (PA-18?) snags a message capsule suspended between two poles. The Japanese flag. A new unit of Japanese self defense forces in Northern Honshu. Local townspeople visit the camp in motorcade of jeeps. Japanese Defense force units parade in a ceremony. High ranking Japanese Officers, along with United States Generals Orlando Troxel and Herbert J. Vander, seated during ceremony. Officer, on Japanese Defense Force Sherman tank, salutes. Squadron of L-5 Sentinal Airplanes in flight.
Doctors and nurses prepare for an operation at the Lenox Hill Hospital Hospital (100 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, United States) in New York. Sign on door reads: 'Operating Room'. Nurses prepare sterilized instruments and towels. Nurses wearing surgical masks arrange sterilized towels. They handle sterilized instruments wearing gloves. A nurse carries a tray of sterilized instruments from the sterile room. Chief Surgeon Dr. Otto Pickhardt dries his hands with a towel. A nurse helps him put on a surgical coat. Doctor powders his hands and puts on rubber gloves. Assistant doctors wash their hands with alcohol.
An anesthetist and a nurse administer blood transfusion at Lenox Hill Hospital (100 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, United States) in New York. Anesthetist and nurses wheel patient from operating room. A nurse carries the drip bottle. The anesthetist and nurse administer blood transfusion on the patient's arm. The doctor watches the pulse and checks the patient's eyes. Bottle of blood and blood dripping. The nurse and the patient.
Pathology Laboratory at the Lenox Hill Hospital (100 E 77th St, New York, NY 10075, United States) in New York. A pathologist and nurse seated at a table. The pathologist begins examination of patient's gall bladder. He cuts open the bladder, picks stones from it and places them onto a tray. The nurse takes notes all the while. A Pathological Examination Request Card for a patient named "E. Conrad".
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