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U.S. president Truman greets heads of state, signs Marshall Plan, and speaks at 1948 Democratic campaign convention.
A car arrives at the White House in Washington DC. President Harry S. Truman greets President of Mexico, Miguel Aleman, during state visit of Mexican President to Washington DC on April 29, 1947. Next scene shows President Truman being presented a Jewish Torah by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first President of the newly declared State of Israel. Exterior view of south side of White House. Truman with Secretary of State, George Marshall, by the fireplace inside the White House. They discuss world affairs looking at a globe. An animated map shows the increasing Soviet Communist influence in Europe. April 3, 1948, President Truman signs the European Recovery Program (ERP), better know as the Marshall Plan, as members of Congressional leadership look on. Sacks of grain being off loaded at a dock in Italy, as part of Marshall Plan aid. Scene shifts to October 6, 1948 with crowd gathered outside the Democratic Convention at Convention Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Convention delegates applaud during President Truman's address. Officials on stage. Truman talks about his sincere desire to promote peace throughout the world. Pictures of Franklin Roosevelt and Alben Barkley on stage. Exterior view of north side of the White House. Truman seated at a table.
Children in various countries play military training games and earthquake relief fund is collected for Japanese children
Contrasts innocent play of children in America with military play and training in Axis countries during World War 2. View of children playing games and on jungle gym in United States. Scene changes to Germany, with German boys climbing over and around artillery pieces under watchful eye of a uniformed German official. Next shows children in Japan staging military training and a charge across a mock battlefield. Next scene shows boys in Italy in uniform engaged in a mock battle charge and putting on gas masks between advances. Also seen during the clip: The Japanese flag is raised, as well as the Nazi flag and an Italian flag. Slogan of the Japanese Army: ' To die for Emperor is to live forever'. Back in the United States, a woman collects funds to help Japanese children affected by an earthquake. Children pass by the collection bin and place money in the jar.
The civilians on the streets of Paris welcome Allied soldiers in Paris,France.
Allied soldiers are greeted in Paris, France. The streets of Paris lined with civilians eager to welcome the Allied soldiers. A street sign "Paris,Pied-Italie." Soldiers in a jeep. The soldiers are welcomed by the French civilians. Still photographers shoot picture if French woman kissing an American soldier. A French cinematographer stands on hood of car. His motion picture camera is on tripod on car roof. A sign on car roof reads (in English) : "Please don't kill the French cameramen." A French woman with two men in the rumble seat of a car. One man holds rifle. Back of car has "FFI" (for French Forces of the Interior) and the Free French, Cross of Lorraine, symbol painted on its back. (World War II period).
The 10th anniversary of the NATO forces celebrated in various countries of Europe.
The 10th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Europe. Germany: Allied troops standing at attention. Various flags are raised. Officers review the troops. Airplanes in formation flight showing aerial demonstrations. A band plays musical instruments and parades. The troops march. Naples, Italy: U.S. Navy Admiral Charles R. Brown reviews a parade. Color guard march with flags. Spectators watch the demonstrations depicting allied unity. Army tanks move past the streets of the city. A U.S. Army aircraft is carried. A beach with ships in the background.
Navy film about amphibious assaults. German films about the building of the German coastal defenses known as the "Atlantic Wall."
U.S. Navy film entitled, "the Battle for the Beaches." Several Higgins boat landing craft arrive at a shore and U.S. soldiers leave them to run ashore. Scene is then overlayed by the title slate. View of the White Cliffs of Dover, England. British civilians preparing defenses during World War 2. Civil Youth loading sand bags and erecting sand bag parapets around buildings. Home guard troops march up a road carrying rifles. British defenders occupying fortified positions They stand along a coastline looking out at sea. Street scene in an English village. Guards walking up along a barbed wire fence erected on the outskirts of the village. Film shifts to the German coastal Atlantic Wall defenses. German troops march along sandy shores containing all manner of obstacles at the water's edge. German officers stand on an overlooking cliff, and peer through binoculars. German sentry and large coastal gun barrel under camouflage net are silhouetted against light sky. Three German officers confer over plans for coastal defenses. View from above of slave laborers working and shoveling sand as they build defenses. German soldiers dismantling wooden forms around completed concrete fortifications. Glimpse of a huge German coastal gun being raised by a crane with heavy steel cables, as it is steadied by dozens of workers with hands on its barrel. German troops manning a machine gun in coastal defense position where a twin mounted antiaircraft gun is also seen. Momentary view of two German soldiers walk past rotating barrel of a huge coastal defense gun under a camouflage net. Workers, with shovels, placing fresh concrete to build up a section of concrete barriers along the coast. Allied troops storming a sandy shore from landing craft, as shells explode near them; possibly related to 1944 D-Day. One contingent are British soldiers. American troops landing at a beach from landing craft. Dead allied soldiers lying in the surf. Film shifts abruptly to U.S. Lieutenant General Mark Clark with some officers in Italy. In another switch of war theaters, General Douglas MacArthur is seen congratulating crew of a B-25 named "Smiling Jack." U.S. troops, in a training exercise, storming ashore from Higgins boats directly and closeup at the camera. They take up defensive positions in the sand, and move a jeep towing a field artillery piece.
Women's Army Corps visit The Sphinx and Pyramids in Giza and the Mosque of Muhammed Ali in Cairo, Egypt
Women of United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) visit Egypt during World War 2. After leaving Italy, a group of WACs pose for a camera beside The Sphinx in Giza, Egypt. They ride camels. Pyramids in the background. After sandals are tied to their feet, they visit The Mosque of Muhammed Ali in Cairo. They walk the streets of Cairo; one of them touches a donkey as they walk. WACs seen sitting in a row.
