Members of United Nations Security Council meet in New York to discuss on Chinese arms invasion on Taiwan and aggression against the Republic of Korea. Meetings agenda is put before the members and discussion takes place as members of various countries listen with their headphones on and take down notes. Representatives of Norway, United States, Britain, Egypt, Yugoslavia and other countries take part in the meeting
Newsreel "East -West Parley: U.S. and Red China confer in Geneva." Chinese delegation headed by Chinese Ambassador to Poland, Wang Bingnan, arrives for discussion with American representatives headed by Alexis Johnson, in Geneva. They discuss measures to ease tensions between the parties. The U.S. group agrees to seek a renunciation of the use of force in the settlement of Formosa (Taiwan), and the repatriation of civilian prisoners. Ambassador Wang announces the release of 11 American fliers. After the meeting, a Chinese interpreter reads out Wang's message to the press in English.
The first scene shows United States Army soldiers conversing with Turkish officers. A sign reads: "Headquarters Joint United States Military Mission For Aid to Turkey." It displays the American and Turkish flags and U.S. Navy and Air Force insignia. Two stars are under the word Headquarters, indicating a Major General's Mission. A different sign reads: Headquarters Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group to the Republic of the Philippines. Closeup of a African Army officer and an American Army Advisor as they inspect a line of African soldiers standing next to their jeeps. A pair of American soldier advisors overseeing two African soldiers examining a jeep engine. Two United States advisors converse with several Filipino soldiers on a porch. An American Army doctor examines a Filipino child as a nurse and aide stand nearby. A United States Navy Hospital Corpsman and a Filipino counterpart treat the foot of child. A Corpsman examines ear of a Filipino child being held by his mother. A United States Army surveyor using a sextant as an Army Sergeant First Class stands nearby, wearing a white hard hat. Glimpses of a road grader and a dump truck being operated by U.S. Army personnel. An American advisor briefing Filipinos in an outdoor class setting and another leading a class indoors. American Army advisor working with Filipino soldiers replacing underground pipes. An advisor sawing a plank as a Asian farmer in a conical hat watch. Closeups of several advisors in one-on-one assistance with Filipinos. U.S. military advisors working with Filipino soldiers in military planning and training, including firearms instruction. American advisor points to a map in Taiwan.
After showing several Russian signal intelligence sites, a map, centered on the North Pole, depicts numerous forms of communications facilities and antennas. An animated map depicts what it calls the world-wide communist communications intelligence (COMINT) threat, comprised of fixed sites, trawlers, airborne, submarine, and satellite platforms. Then several types of facilities are shown. The film narrator, a U.S. Air Force Colonel in short-sleeved summer uniform shirt, is then seen as he mentions diplomatic posts around the world that also serve as intelligence gathering sites. Aerial views, from overflying helicopter, of Washington, DC, and environs, including the Capitol, Federal buildings, and the Pentagon. Map showing Soviet Military Attache Office, Soviet school, Soviet Embassy, and the Pentagon, together with the telephone trunk lines serving them. Another map displays microwave links in the Washington area. View of the residence of the Russian Ambassador, at 1125 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. The radio antenna on the roof of the building. Images of "Krug" signal gathering sites, and map of their locations in the Soviet Union., Map of USSR communications intelligence threat in Asiatic-Alaskan area. Innocent-appearing fishing trawlers used by Soviets to intercept communications. A Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 aircraft, equipped for signal intelligence collection, is seen in flight. Closeup of the aircraft tail. Views from an aircraft flying around the Tu-95. Animated illustration of earth rotating in space and of satellites passing over it. Map of Cuban COMINT threat. Polar-centered map showing Chinese and North Korean communications intercept installations. U.S. intelligence aerial photograph of a site in China, across from Taiwan. Map of COMINT threat sites in Southeast Asia.
A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. News correspondents Larry Leseur and Bill Costello talk with Senator Mike Mansfield, from Montana. Senator Mansfield talks in regard to Foreign Policy in the Pacific and Formosa (Taiwan).
U.S. Army Air Forces XX Bomber Command Operations during World War 2. A Boeing B-29-10-BW Superfortress, number 42-6347, named "King Size," of the 462nd Bombardment Group, 769th Bombardment Squadron. It is seen here, at their forward operating base on Kiunglai Airfield, China. Tents are seen near the flight line. Numerous bombs are lined up on the ground ready to be loaded aboard the bomber. A B-29 taking off at nightfall. A formation of B-29s in flight. Bombs being dropped over Japanese installations at Hatto, Formosa (aka Taiwan). View of B-29 landing after the mission. (Note. Formosa was a Japanese colonial territory from 1895 to 1945.)