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.
San Francisco Security conference of representatives of four powers meets in Washington DC prior to the United Nations San Francisco Parley. United States Secretary of States Edward R. Stettinius Jr. meets British ambassador to U.S. Edward Wood (Lord Halifax), Russian ambassador to U.S. Andrei Gromyko, and Chinese ambassador to U.S., Dr. Wei Tao-ming. Assistant Secretary Archibald MacLeish speaks on a microphone. Chinese ambassador speaks. Assistant Secretary of State, Archibald MacLeish, poses and talks on a microphone.
Events during World War I. Russian battle casualties are moved, on stretchers, amongst trains in rail yard. One casualty appears to have died and is rolled from a stretcher onto a wheeled cart. Soldier talks with one casualty who lifts his head and then lies down again. Another wounded soldier converses with attendants, dressed in white clothes, as they bend over his stretcher, lying on the ground. They appear to be reassuring him.
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.
Track and field meet in the United States. In the women's 100 meter race an American athlete wins against a Russian athlete. In the men's high jump Russian Valeri Brumel breaks his own world record. American athlete Jim Betty sets a new record in the 1500 meter run.
German troops advance on Kharkov-Rostov front during World War 2. German Wehrmacht soldier uses binoculars behind a trench. Explosion behind burned trees on a battlefield. German soldiers watch explosion from behind trenches while standing on muddy puddle. A German soldier crouches in the trench. A German soldier uses a field telephone while looking at a map with two colleagues. German troops move an 88mm Flak. German soldier loads shell into a Flak. Artillery fires in the forest, hitting the battlefield. German artillery troops firing artillery, covering their ears. Mushroom clouds form over battlefield. Shirtless German soldier smokes a pipe while firing an artillery. A German soldier observing mushroom cloud in the horizon. German artilleryman pulls the firing lever on a Flak gun. A soldier uses binoculars as his head peers from a tank hatch. A Wehrmacht soldier driving a tank, controls can be seen. Gun barrel of a tank. Soldiers walking on foot. A soldier hides behind the branches with an artillery gun sticking out. Allied aircraft flying. A Flak anti-aircraft gun fires at Allied planes. Explosion on a field after a plane went down. A German tank rolling. Shirtless German troops adjust the position of Flak gun barrel. Flak guns firing at enemy planes. A German soldier looking up the sky. A soldier fires machine gun upwards. A German soldier moves. A German soldier fires with a MG 42 machine gun. Firing in the battlefield. A German soldier firing with a machine gun at Soviet troops. A German soldier aims and fires with a rifle. A German soldier toss a stick hand grenade (Stielhandgranate). German troops briefly run before lying down in prone position. German troops walk past soldiers in trenches.
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