President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower boosts the Cancer Crusade in Washington D.C. President Eisenhower welcomes Joyce De Zeller, a cancer victim. She holds the Sword of Hope. She presents the sword to the President as the signal to start the campaign for Cancer research funds. At the White House members of the National Press Photographers clicks photos of the President. President greets the guests.
French postal worker from the village of LaFayette, France, personally delivers post cards in New York City, attesting to friendship between the French and American people, on 200th anniversary of the birth of the Marquis de Lafayette. He arrives on an Air France DC-6. The postcards are sent in response to a broadcast over Radio Europe about Franco-American relations. Men load sacks of postcards on a cart. The French Postman rides the cart with the mail. He meets Mr. A.N. Spanel (Abraham Nathaniel Spanel), founder and chairman of the International Latex Corporation, who made the radio broadcast.
Warship flying Greek Royal Navy Ensign arrives at pier in France. King Paul I, Queen Frederika and daughter, Princess Sophia, come down gangway. A full military guard of honor is in formation on the dock. King Paul I in Paris, reviews guard of honor and salutes. He lays memorial wreath on tomb of the unknown at Arc de Triomphe, and pays homage, saluting with phalanx of French military officers. King Paul I arrives at Chateau, where Queen Frederika and Princess Sophia are already standing on steps, holding bouquets of flowers. The royal family enters the building for a reception inside. saluting with phalanx of French military officers. King Paul I arrives at Chateau, where Queen Frederika and Princess Sophia are already standing on steps, holding bouquets of flowers. The royal family enters the building for a reception inside.
Merchant Marine officers who need to join their ship, leave dock on a Egyptian launch that takes them out to their ship, in Port Said, Egypt. (The launch flies an Egyptian flag design in use from 1922 through 1953.) When the officers arrive at their ship, deckhands lower a rope ladder and the officers climb aboard. View of steamship, SS Aeolia, underway. (This ship, launched as the Stuyvesant 1918, was acquired in 1950 and named, Aeolia, by Cia Naviera del Atlantica of Panama. It was managed for them by the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, Piraeus.) Back of a sailor as boat he is on passes a statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps at the Port Said entrance to the Suez Canal.. Views waters around Port Said with palm trees along shore and commercial shipping traffic in the waters.
A large crowd of Algerians and Colonials gather at airport to witness arrival of Resident Minister of Algeria, Robert Lacoste. He arrives on a DC-3 aircraft and is met by local officials, military officers, and Algerians holding Algerian tricolor flags. He rides through the streets in a motorcade. Spectators applaud as the motorcade passes. Robert Lacoste ascends a reviewing stand and watches a military parade of French forces. A band plays and soldiers march past during the ceremony. Tanks and trucks loaded with soldiers drive past Buildings seen in the background. A large crowd of civilians gathered on the streets to greet the Resident Minister. Girls stand outside the "College Moderne De Jeunes Filles" building to greet the Resident Minister
Ministry of Interior compound in Algeria. Aerial view of buildings. Trees in the foreground. A car enters a building gateway. Policemen stand on either side of the gateway. Soldiers move across a field. A board on a building reads "Ministere De L'Interieur". Cars parked outside the building. FLN leaders, have been arrested after the French Military forced down a Moroccan aircraft carrying them from Morocco to Tunis. FLN leader,Hocine Ait Ahmed, passes between policemen in a hall and then climbs a stairway inside the building. FLN leader, Mohamed Khider, comes out of the hallway and also ascends the stairway. Mohamed Boudiaf, and then, Professor Mustafa Lacheref follow the other FLN leaders, out of the hall and up the stairs. Professor Lacheref is seen shaving himself at a lavatory sink, and then dressing in good clothes. Luggage of the FLN leaders is seen stacked in corner of a room.
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