U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill emerge from the White House in the United States. British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden is also seen. Photographers await their arrival and take pictures. The President and Prime Minister descend the steps and shake hands. Prime Minister Churchill and Sir Anthony Eden get into a waiting car. President Eisenhower bids farewell to other officials. The motorcade exits the gates as a large crowd waits outside. The White House.
A U.S. Air Force Boeing XB 52 Stratofortress Bomber at an aerodrome in the United States. Technicians work on the plane. Boeing XB 52 Stratofortress painted on the aircraft. People stand around the plane. Plane taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight over and under clouds. The bomber approaches the runway and lands.
Several foreign dignitaries arrive at Ankara Airport, Turkey, via U.S. Air Force C-47. A few are seen wearing the traditional Fez hat. They are met by an honor guard and escorted by officials. They visit the Anıtkabir or mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Yücetepe, Akdeniz Cd. No:31, 06570 Çankaya/Ankara, Turkey), where they ceremoniously lay a wreath. They visit the Turkish Grand National Assembly (Republic Museum, Doğanbey, Cumhuriyet Cd. No:7, 06050 Altındağ/Ankara, Turkey).
Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, mingle with officials seeing them off from Washington National Airport, Washington DC, on a trip to Asia. Luggage at the airport. 'Dick Nixon Special' sign on the airplane. Well-wishers with posters and banners stand on the observation deck balcony. One sign reads: "We Love Pat." President Dwight D Eisenhower is personally seeing them off. Mrs. Nixon carries a bouquet of flowers. The Nixons wave goodbye as they board the waiting aircraft.
Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police during the Korean War. MPs are active in Operation Big Switch, involving exchange of prisoners of war. A sign on an entrance gate: "Welcome, Gate To Freedom". Military Police (MPs) standing at the entrance gate to Freedom Village. The U.S. and UN flags and Korean flags fly from flag poles. Red Cross vehicles arrive. Wounded are carried on stretchers. Men walk with belongings. Korean prisoners board buses. Red Cross workers transfer the wounded.
Honor Guard of UN troops from various nations stand at entrance to the so-called "Peace Pagoda," where negotiations were conducted to end the Korean conflict. U.S. Military Police Officers escort Major General George G. Finch, USAF, Chief negotiator for the U.S. followed by MP officers escorting Lieutenant General, William K. Harrison, Jr. United States Army, Senior Delegate, United Nations Command Delegation, who would sign the truce documents. Separate sequence shows U.S. Army MPs and U.S. Navy Shore Patrol (SP) patrolling streets in Beirut Lebanon, in 1958. MPs talk with a local policeman and point to a map of the Town of Beirut, posted on a wall
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