The battle for democracy in El Salvador. Roberto Escobar Garcia, Authentic Institutional Salvadorian party, speaks about democracy when he is interviewed. He says that election parties were not fighting for control and getting power but were fighting for democracy in America. The voting campaign of Popular Salvadorian Party. Francisco Quinonez Avila during the voting campaign. A sign: Partido Popular Salvadorian. Celia Campos de Tovar, Popular Salvadorian Party speaks when she is interviewed. Views of the voting campaign of National Conciliation Party and Christian Democratic Party. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fidel Chavez Mena speaks. Activities of civilians: people in a market. A man reads a newspaper. Civilians are asked their opinions on democracy. People cast vote. 25th March 1984: A date with democracy.
View of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. A motorcade arrives at the monument. A large crowd gathers for a ceremony. Officials and dignitaries including French Prime Minister Joseph Laniel and French Defense Minister René Pleven stand by during the ceremony commemorating the sacrifices of French soldiers killed in the war in Indochina. View of wreaths at the site. Following the ceremony, Laniel and Pleven are escorted to separate waiting cars through a hostile crowd of angry French citizens and war veterans, upset by the recent removal of Marshal Juin from the Council of War, and opposed to the Pleven Plan for the European Defense Community or EDC. The officials finally reach their cars through the angry crowd and are driven away.
A meeting preliminary to the annual NATO sessions in Paris, France. Foreign Ministers of France Maurice Couve de Murville and British Foreign Secretary Lord Selwyn-Lloyd, confer with West Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Heinrich von Brentano. They come out of their cars and walk upstairs. They discuss with West Germany's Brentano in the conference hall.
Personnel classification and orientation as morale features. Shows and recommends films of Nazi German bombings, burning towns and dead civilians, in World War II. Stresses the need for esprit de corps. Officer addresses soldiers in a hall and discusses about the need to understand that why they fight. Depicts that the Commanding Officers should show war films of Nazi German attacks on people, to motivate the soldiers to fight for their Nation. The film shows the German planes in flight. The planes bombard on the land where the civilians reside. High altitude view of the city. People run to save themselves from the air attack. Dead bodies lay on the field. Fire and smoke due to bombarding. German flag on the flag pole. Soldiers march. The British soldiers prepare to fight the Germans. The British soldiers in airplanes. High altitude view of the wrecked city.
Film outlines process of U.S. military and War Department to estimate the German military manpower losses from 1939-1943 during World War II. Scenes of German military forces in battle. German tank on the battlefront smashes down a tree and German soldiers follow, running behind it. Dead bodies of soldiers lay on the battlefield. Airplane falling from sky to ground after being hit. German Soldiers fire rifles during battle. German soldiers carry wounded on litters and German medical staff treat the wounded soldiers. A wounded soldier on a hospital bed. Nurse leans over hospital bed and talks to a wounded soldier. A study made to find out the number of soldiers returning to their jobs after being injured. A man reads a magazine which reads: 'Estimate of non battle causalities'. German soldiers march through Arc de Triomphe in Paris during occupation of Paris by Nazi Germany. Headline of a newspaper reads: 'Germans silent on Russian gain'. Brief scene of Soviet leader Stalin speaking at a microphone. Cavalry soldiers, likely Soviet, crossing a battlefield. Scenes of World War I German troops being reviewed by officers. Civilian or OSS men lean over a German map and discuss among themselves. They study the map. Scene of men and women at a German news stand buying German newspapers in order to obtain obituary information. OSS personnel translate casualty reports from German newspapers to help estimate deaths of German soldiers and determine force strength. An operations room with American staff analyzing German newspapers. View of a Boeing 314 Clipper Flying Boat aicraft taking off from water. The reports from World War I and II, allied forces, chart, graphs and NARS computers used to estimate German Army's manpower loss. African American women workers operate keypunch machines recording battle casualty statistics which yield punch cards for further data analysis. Punch cards being created and being loaded in sorting and reading machines bearing brand "International" (for International Business Machines or IBM). A document entitled "analysis of obituaries." Man in an office studying a map and a document. A woman helps him as she enters numbers into a Remington Rand adding machine. They estimate the officers killed in war and the number of the killed enlisted men, in order to estimate the total battle loss. They compare the data of soldiers missing, killed, wounded, and unfit for duty from 1939 to 1943.
Opening slate refers to King George V visiting the British "contemptible little army," at the front in France. This refers to German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm, who ostensibly issued an order in August 1914 referring to General French's "contemptible little army." (General French refers to Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, who commanded the British Expeditionary Force following the outbreak of World War 1.) The King with his Aide de Camp, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, and others, steps from an official car. One officer, in an overcoat, walks away, rapidly,heading towards a road where British troops are moving. He is standing there with two officers wearing white arm bands, as King George V and his party reach the spot.Cavalry horses are grazing in a field nearby. British Expeditionary Force (BEF) units are moving along the road. The King greets and shakes hands with an officer standing near the moving troops. The road is crowded with horse-drawn wagons moving war materiel. Infantry are seen in the far background. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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