Riots and uneasy conditions in South Africa and Congo during the year 1960. South African natives demonstrate against apartheid racial discrimination and passbook requirements. Protestors at Sharpeville shown burning passbooks. Policemen fire at peaceful demonstrators in what became the Sharpeville massacre of May 31, 1960. Next scene shows attempted assassination of Premier Verwoerd by a white farmer. A photographer takes photos as an aide holds Verwoerd after he is shot. Next scene shows riots in Congo, Africa after elections. Rioters dispersed by local police forces. The United Nations peace keeping forces arrive in Congo. Premiere Patrice Lumumba arrested and policeman ties his hands with ropes. View of Colonel Mobutu Sese Seko in military uniform.
The film division of the United Nations Day Citizens Committee presents a cake to U.S. President Harry S Truman at the White House in Washington DC. Cake presented on the forth coming sixth anniversary of signing the UN Charter. A woman brings the cake and presents it to President Truman. The President and First Lady Bess at the ceremony with the cake. President addresses press reporters and people; laughter breaks out at the ceremony.
Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, being interviewed by Eugene Lyons (unseen). Lyons was United Press International (UPI) correspondent in Moscow, and the first Western correspondent to be granted an interview with Stalin.
Marching troops and Soviet leaders during the May Day parade at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The Egyptian party disembarks from a plane at the Moscow airport and wave at welcoming crowd at the terminal building. President Gamal Abdel Nasser of United Arab Republic shakes hands with Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev and other dignitaries and waves from the reviewing point. Armored self propelled guns and tanks on roads. Marching troops of Russian soldiers and soldiers sit in armored vehicles. Posters and large cutouts of great leaders Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and others. Policemen at alert and people in crowd during parade. Tanks and artillery guns pass on during the parade.
U.S. President Richard Nixon's address to the nation about Watergate case from White House, Washington DC. President Nixon speaks about attitude of the convicts in the Watergate scandal and events that led to Watergate. President Nixon calls for people to unite for the cause of the nation. He adds ideas about gradually changing the existing system for the betterment of society.
China's President Chiang Kai-shek inspects the Chinese troops in Burma during World War II. Soldiers march on a street. An aircraft takes off. China's leader and United Nation's Supreme Commander for South East Asia Chiang Kai-shek along with his wife Soong May-Ling and General Mountbatten inspects Chinese troops in Burma. President Chiang and General Mountbatten looks through binoculars. The President of China Chiang Kai-shek and his wife in an American jeep along with other officials to inspect China's Army mobilizing for attack. The soldiers march. President Chiang addresses the soldiers. An American aircraft supplies the guns and ammunition via parachute to the Chinese soldiers fighting in the jungles of Burma against the Japanese soldiers. Chinese soldiers in jungle with their weapons. The soldiers attack their enemies. The heroes of the Burma's battles receiving medals from U.S. Army General Joseph Warren Stilwell.
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