July 1960: Russian oil tanker “Peking” at dock in Havana, Cuba. Sailors stand on deck of the ship. Man looks at the Soviet ship through binocular. Car arrives and dignitaries get off. Delegation of People’s Republic of China Federation of Trade Union meet dignitaries of Cuba including President Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado. President Osvaldo and Chinese Foreign Minister Lu Jung sit with other dignitaries and discuss about sugar trade and steel import.
26th July 1960: Fidel Castro Prime Minster of Cuba calls for celebrating 7th anniversary of 26th July movement. Castro watches the rally with Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado and other dignitaries. Girls carry a star and walk in rally, holding their hands. Crowd gathers in celebration. Poster of Fidel Castro. He arrives in 1st Latin American youth conference, waves his hat and greets people. Castro addresses conference and pronounces death sentence to American business, crowd claps. Card of 'Cuba Siempre, Yankees No' pasted on wall. Cuban people at rally with symbolic coffins of American business. Crowd carries bouquets, Wreaths, banners and flags in rally.
September 1960: Fidel Castro disembarks from an airplane at New York airport, surrounded with people. He gets into car and departs. A small group of people greets him from behind the fences. Castro stops to meet them but New York police men stop him for security reasons and he goes. Prime communist leader of Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev arrives at a hotel to meet Castro. Castro welcomes Nikita as his car arrives down town, at hotel, on street. The United Nation's meeting spot building. Castro arrives at the 15th meeting of the United Nation's General Assembly. He comes forward for speech. He gives the longest speech in general assembly of the United Nations meeting, 4 hour long speech. Fredrick Henry Boland, President of the General Assembly interrupts him when he attacks the United States Presidential Candidates. Castro supports soviet ideology and Chinese admission to the UN. Fidel Castro meets Nikita Khrushchev. Nikita embraces Castro.
Riots break out in Algeria after Charles de Gaulle returns to power in France, and after De Gaulle dismissed from command the French paratrooper General Jacques Émile Massu for his opposition to DeGaulle's self determination plan for Muslim North Africa. French soldiers with rifles patrol at their posts and keep a vigil in Algiers during the crisis. Next scene is a flashback to May 1958: A crowd of supporters is seen around General Jacques Massu. A group of angry protestors is seen amassing, scaling a building and using a truck to break through fences onto the grounds of an official building. These scenes, the narrator indicates, are from May 5, 1958, during the May 1958 crisis, also called the Algiers putsch or the Coup of 13 May, when paratroopers under General Massu and civilians together succeeded in a coup and establishment of a "Committee of Public Safety". The narrator indicates that thus far in the 1960 crisis, the Army has remained loyal.
Views of people from various countries of the world and of South America about the Cuban revolution and rule of Fidel Castro in Cuba. Fidel Castro alights from an airplane for the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in September 1960. Officials receive him. An expert talks about Castro during his two visits to New York for General Assembly meetings. Fidel Castro meets with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York City. Castro addresses the UN General Assembly for five continues hours.
Shows the progress of the 1960 Kapoho eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, and the damage it caused. After eruption lava spills out in the middle of the farm just above Kapoho Village. Shows the main flow of lava flowing into ocean but a slow moving offshoot crept towards the town. Many houses and resorts are destroyed.