Achievements of Lithuania since the Soviet liberation in 1939 and during World War II. Sign reads 'Fabrikas Metalas'. Workers leave the textile factory after work. Female workers walk. A man pulls his bicycle as he walks with another man, who is smoking a cigarette, after work. A woman opens a window. Various building in Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Achievements of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic during World War II. Fishermen uses net to catch fish at a Baltic seaport. Waves crash over rocks. Boats and ships at seaport. Two Soviet Navy officers talk together on dock.
United States President John F Kennedy speaks on the Cold War nuclear test ban at the American University (4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016) in Washington DC. Graduates of the American University sit and clap. Professors sit on podium. President announces that the U.S. and Britain will send high level negotiators to Moscow in July for conference on a nuclear test ban. He says that the U.S. will discontinue nuclear tests unless some other country resumes them. “Confident and unafraid, we must labor on, not towards a strategy of annihilation, but towards a strategy of peace. Thanks.” President Kennedy concluded his speech.
Students in Italy demonstrate in support of Hungary's fight against Soviet domination (during the Hungarian Uprising or Hungarian Revolution of 1956). A crowd of more than ten thousand students carries posters to against communist rule. Riot and violence follows as efforts of the crowd are controlled by police. People fighting and beating. A policeman tries to stop the rallying students from entering the Communist Party headquarters office in Rome.
Lend lease activities at American outposts in Iran. Traces routes of American shipments from United States to Iran. Cargo unloaded from ships at ports in Basra, Iraq and Khoremshar, Iran. Exterior views of U.S. military base building complex in Iran. Group of local civilians crouched and breaking a pile of rocks into smaller pieces. Aerial view of harbor area. Dock-side view of ships harbor offloading supplies. Boxes including a food box labeled "Pork Luncheon Meat" from the American company Armour and Company, and many others are unloaded and stacked at port by African American personnel. Line of African American soldiers or sailors on dock receiving food in a chow line. Railroad engines and train cars being unloaded at port. A Soviet military officer walks with a checklist and checks the shipments. Massive piles of supplies including food, tires, trucks received from America. Soviet officer reviewing supplies with an American officer.
International Peace Campaign demonstration at Czechoslovakian Legation, Grosvenor Place, London, England. Demonstrators march on street. Four men stand in front of the Legation, holding, respectively, British flag, Czechoslovakian flag, United States flag, and Russian flag. Buses and cars pass by. Policemen control traffic, and the crowds, on Grosvenor Place. Some demonstrators carry banners. A banner reads 'stop German aggression, act to save peace'. A group of women, and two men watch from the Czechoslovakian Legation balcony. Huge numbers of Londoners participate in the demonstrations.
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