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Life under Soviet domination in Eastern Europe following World War II
Legislators entering a hall in Czechoslovakia, in 1948. Inside,an image of the Small Coat of Arms of the Republic of Czechoslovakia (1920) dominates the scene. New scene shows Gustav Husak, acting Prime Minister, delivering an address urging support for the Communist Party. The next sequence shows violent Communist-led demonstrations, as armed trade unionists riot in the Prague streets, attacking the offices of the political opposition. Police attempt to restore order. On February 25, 1948, the communists achieve a Czechoslovak coup d'état. On February 27th, Czech President, Edvard Benes, receives a delegation including communist Premier Klement Gottwald and the 12 new members of the cabinet, at the Presidential Palace. He is seen signing documents accepting the communist cabinet. Change of scene shows Czech Foreign Minister, Jan Masaryk, giving a speech rejecting the change. (He remained in office, but died under suspicious circumstances on On March 10, 1948.) View of Masaryk in his casket. Mourners at his funeral.The Czech Parliament Building with flag at half staff. President Benes seen strolling, using a cane, accompanied by his wife, Hana Benes, in the garden of their summer home, Benesova vila, in Sezimovo Usti. Narrator notes that he refused to sign a new constitution drawn up by the communists. He died of natural causes at his villa on September 3, 1948. Scenes of his funeral and of him in his casket. Views of Benes' state funeral, with mourners lining the streets. View of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Narrator describes circumstances using Churchill's term "Iron Curtain." A communist parade in an Eastern European city. A person who was roughed up on the street. View of East German uprising in 1953, being suppressed with Soviet tanks. Uprising in Poland in 1955 being put down by local police and Russian soldiers. Polish musicians playing and examples of Polish political cartoons permitted under relaxed communist rule.
Earthquake causes heavy toll in Western Turkey
Earthquake causes heavy toll in Western Turkey. Rubble seen on the streets due to earth quake in Western Turkey. Rescue workers probe wreckage for dead bodies. Hospital beds are fully occupied. Beds are laid outside the hospitals.
American military mission camp and native carvans near Devegechid River in Turkey.
Automobiles, of the American Military Mission to Armenia, pass through the gateway of a city in Turkey. View of local people moving goods on pack animals and in carts, across a bridge over the Devegechid River in Turkey. Members of the Mission encamped on a plain. Smoke rising from their cooking fires near wagons. View from above of the mission vehicles and campsite, in background,near the river and bridge. Pack animals seem grazing near their burdens, removed and stacked in the foreground. A mission automobile moves past other elements of the expedition, as they break camp and get underway. Camera pans the barren hills and village houses atop a cliff.
Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol at United States Embassy in Turkey and sailors visit the city.
Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol at United States embassy in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey. Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, other officials, sailors, and women pose for a group photograph at United States Embassy. The Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol in Istanbul. United States sailors visit a city in Turkey. They visit marketplaces and see street vendors. Shop keepers stand at the shops. Street vendor carries goods basket on his head.
Men gather at ceremony in Turkey during Greco-Turkish war
Houses and trees in Turkey. Huge crowd of men gathered in a courtyard. A man reverently lays the flag of Turkey over a grave or other object of veneration. The crowd is gathered in front of a large palace with enormous portico several stories high above the throng. Many persons are on the portico.
People working and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk visits a girls classroom in Turkey
An old man smoking while speaking to another man in Turkey. Men selling newspaper in the market. Women working in a printing press. Man stands in a field. People walk on the street. Founder of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk visits a girls’ classroom. Girls learn cooking, flower arranging, and dressmaking. School girls do synchronized exercises in a field over which the Turkish flag flies. People vote and cast their ballots in various locations. A young Turkish woman casts her vote.
