Hungarian revolution. Men walk on streets of a wrecked city. Bodies of dead men. Various views of wreckage after war. Soviet soldiers on military tank. A political building. Various streets and wrecked houses.
Various parts of Allied-occupied Berlin under repair by German women workers after World War 2. Women workers clearing rubble in the British Sector of Berlin. Sign near the women reads “British Sector”. The ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin, Germany) is seen on the background. The Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus building, housing the German Ministry of Aviation (Reichsluftfahrtministerium RLM) under repair on Wilhelmstraße, in the Soviet section of Berlin. German men and women making bricks and working on repair of the old German Ministry of Aviation building. An empty wagon automatically rolls down a rail track. German women passing pails to each other.
Hotel Riviera in Havana. The staff at the hotel entrance. Hotel Capri. The deserted reception. Prime Minister Fidel Castro hosts his own television program called 'The Television World Asks'. Castro looks at a passport. He speaks over a microphone, points to a paper, makes long speeches. Evidence of sabotage on the table. The audience. Castro seated at the table. He responds to people's questions. He launches an attack on the Spanish ambassador. The ambassador reaches the studio and accuses Castro of slandering. Castro's men try to control him. Castro orders the ambassador out of Cuba. Castro's supporters follow the ambassador and shout slogans against him. People demonstrate with banners and boards. The Government takes control of all media and implements censorship. Workers inside a printing press. The Radio Continental building. The Ministry of Labor takes over the nation's tobacco and cigarette industry. The Cuban flag hung from a building. Cuba's Farm Minister arrives at an airport to meet Communist leaders. A large crowd gathered. Reporters take down notes. A man and a woman look at a fruit. A photographer clicks pictures. Women in a market. Women pack cartons. Sergei Kudryatsev chosen as the new Soviet Ambassador to Cuba. Czechoslovakian, Polish, Chinese and other Communist delegations in Cuba. They survey a housing complex under construction, and visit factories and industries.
Che Guevara talks with his fellows. The United Nations office at New York. Brief shot of Fidel Castro greeting Soviet leader Khrushchev in New York City in 1960. Cuban man holds rifle. Cubans receive Red Chinese arms including Chinese submachine guns. Cuban soldiers receiving instruction in use of the submachine gun. Fidel Castro talks with his men. Cuban rebels soldiers on the alert by an Anti Aircraft gun (AA Gun). Cuban soldier traverse AA gun. Cuban women in a line with weapons, including one carrying a sub machine gun with a round ammunition drum mounted beneath it. Fidel Castro speaking.
The United Nations Conference opens in San Francisco, California near the end of World War 2. Flags of the participating nations. U.S. President Truman speaks to the UN delegates from Washington DC. Cars outside the venue of the conference. Personage at the conference include South Arabian delegates, North African Prime Minister and Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, China's Foreign Minister TV Soong, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, U.S. Secretary of State Stettinius, Andrei Gromyko, Jan Masaryk, Lord Halifax, Molotov and delegates from India, Mexico, Lebanon, Greece, Chezoslovakia, Egypt and Netherlands. Photographers take pictures. Typists work at typewriters in Associated Press Headquarters room. Telephone operators at switchboards. China's Foreign Minister TV Soong, Soviet Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden each address the conference.
Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, addresses people at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. In an excerpt from his famous "Sinews of Peace" address, Churchill talks about the situation in Europe and the Soviet influence. He makes his famous statement that, "...an iron curtain has descended..." President Harry S. Truman and other dignitaries seated on the stage behind him.
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