A "communist menace" in Europe (early during Cold War). The Local Communist Party demonstrates in Paris. A banner of Frederic Joliot Curie. Joliot Curie participates in the protest. Scene changes to Berlin. In Soviet sector, east German crowd marches in May Day parade celebrating Soviet leaders in the invisible line divided east and west Berlin (before Berlin Wall erected). View of crowd on other side in west Berlin staging its own demonstration against the Soviets and against a divided Germany. Civilians throw stones across the "line" and the police control them. Men form human chains to protest. Scene changes to community in Wisconsin where the effect of a Communist fifth column takeover is dramatized and recorded on film for an anti-communist propaganda effort: The police put the protesters behind bars in Mosinee, Wisconsin. Group of Communists enter newspaper offices, stop the operation of the free press , and put the editor in jail. The Red Star newspaper headlines: 'Official Soviet Proclamation'. A sign: U.S. Post Office, Mosinee. Propaganda posters and banners of Soviet Union are posted. USSA price tag on a bicycle. The Soviet flag raised in the community. Soup line and blankets are distributed to the workers to the 24 hour Communism "experiment" in Mosinee Wisconsin.
Republic of China (Taiwan)'s Prime Minister Tse Ven Soong (T.V. Soong) visits the United States. Mr. Soong arrives at Washington DC airport to meet U.S. President Harry S. Truman. Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express transport plane with nose art "Grandpappy" also bears a seal with an eagle and shield and Russian lettering at the top that is a symbol of good will between the Soviet Union and America, according to the narrator. Mr. T.V. Soong shakes hands with officials.
U.S. and Laos leaders meet for discussions on formation of a coalition government in Laos. Map of Laos. Plane comes cargo being unloaded from the plane. U.S. President John F. Kennedy meets Chairman of the council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev in Vienna, Austria. Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos disembark. He goes away in a car. Communist head of Laos comes and journalists interview him. The Laos Right Wing Military Chief being interviewed in Laos. Officials confer in a meeting.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace journey to China through Soviet union. A animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. Wallace visits Buryat Mongolian Republic. Wallace being greeted by the members of the Ranch Committee. A short man with a Buryat face is the President of the republic. The American visitors see the cattle. They see a horse. A village band. Buryats men and women play loud music for the Vice President. The round cheeked and round eye children listen to the music. A tall man, head of the locomotive work. The American visitors look at the locomotive.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet Union. An animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President visits Kazakhstan. A man on a horseback. Sheep, camel and cattle graze in the field. Kazakh man uses a pole with a running noose on it to lasso a horse. The people cook donuts. The horsemen smoke American king size cigarettes for the first time. Women make tea in the open. The coal mine industry in Karaganda. Open cut coal pits. Bulldozers scoop of the earth to revile of coal. Tracks being laid and the trains moves into the cut coal pits. The equipment being used in the mines. Wallace speaks to the engineers. The machines and trains being operated by women. They then visit a copper mine also known as Soviet anaconda. A crane picks up the copper.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet Union. An animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President visits Tashkent. A building. Turkish people on streets and seated on a bench. Cars on street. People cross the street. The Vice President and U.S. ambassador to Moscow William Averell Harriman arrive for a diplomatic meeting. Mexican ambassador to Moscow. They greet each other. Vice President wears a cap. Vice President and others are seated on a bench as they talk. Wallace talks to a Chinese ambassador. He looks at the cotton field. Two women open the tap and water runs down from the irrigation channel . It flows into the cotton farm. Mexican Ambassador and Wallace look at the wine fruit. The fruits grown by Uzbek farmers. Vice President and others seated as they are entertained by the farmers. The Vice President visits the last city Alma Ata. People, buses and cars on streets. A crew members work on a plane and being introduced. A pilot in a cockpit. The crew turns the propeller. The vice president gets in the plane and U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster takes off.
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