U.S. propaganda piece about threats by communists against various European countries. The Czechoslovak coup and demonstrations. Czech citizens moving on a street in Czechoslovakia during a strike forcing conservative elements to resign from the cabinet. Scenes of police brutality and beatings against strikers. Communists take over the police. Czech President Edvard Benes with conservative politicians in a government building. Huge crowd on a street. Police clashing with crowd. Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald with officials. President Edvard Benes, facing possible civil war or invasion by the Soviet Union, accepts a Communist cabinet. He is seen signing documents to that effect on February 25, 1948. Other officials beside President Benes during the signing. View of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk's son, Jan Masaryk, who remained the Foreign Minister, and did not agree to the new government. Two days later Jan Masaryk is discovered dead. The body of Jan Masaryk in a coffin. Edvard Benes, who resigned in June 1948 after refusing to sign the communist constitution, is seen walking slowly outside the Parliament using a cane. A guard saluting Benes. View of the body of Edvard Benes, who died in September 1948, laying in a coffin. Mourning citizens offering flowers and cry. Officials bearing the coffin. Shift several years later to street strikes in East Germany in 1953. People during a strike and riot in Poland in 1956. Russian tanks moving on a street and Soviet soldiers are seen. Elevated view of panic and Polish citizens fleeing soldiers. October 1956: Student demonstrators on street in Budapest Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Soviet Russian red star is toppled by crowds from a building roof in a sign of defiance. Russian troops respond with tanks on the streets in Hungary. Crowd fights back. Russians retreat. Crowd overwhelms local police. Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, ascends steps. Hungarian crowd on streets burn communist books and papers. Russian tanks invade Hungary to crush revolt. Tanks fire guns on Hungarian street. Imre Nagy's execution announced June 17, 1958.
A Communist party meeting held in Prague, Czechoslovakia after the parliamentary elections. Views in the lobby of the Communist Party headquarters shows people looking at photos of Vladimir Lenin and Czech personalities including Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Bedrich Smetana and others. A meeting of the Communist party after the elections. Members at long tables stand up and applaud. Party officials seated at a long table in the front beneath large hanging pictures of Stalin and Gottwald. Communist Interior minister Václav Nosek proposes Chairman of the meeting Klement Gottwald as their new Prime Minister. Closer view of the photos of Klement Gottwald and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin with two sentences written in Czech: 'With Gottwald we won' and 'With Gottwald we must achieve our plan'.
The inauguration of General Andrews Airport Dominican Army (presently known as the Las Américas International Airport) in Santo Domingo by President Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. soldiers marching and holding flags of the Dominican Republic and the United States. President Trujillo stands beside Jeannette Johnston “Johnnie” Andrews, the widow of the late Lieutenant General Frank Maxwell Andrews, one of the founders of the United States Army Air Forces. Mrs. Andrews is seen wearing the Dominican Republic Order Of Trujillo medal. The Santo Domingo Obelisk (Av. George Washington, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic). Dominican soldiers marching seen from rear view. President Trujillo awarding Mrs. Andrews the Dominican Republic Order Of Trujillo medal. President Trujillo embraces Mrs. Andrews. Mrs. Andrews cuts the ribbon at the opening ceremony of Andrews Airport. Trujillo and Mrs. Andrews unveil a plaque dedicating General Andrews Airport. They pull away the flags of the Dominican Republic and the United States to unveil the plaque. Closer view of the plaque in Spanish and English. Flags of different countries in the Americas stand outside a building. A poster commemorating the centenary of the Dominican Republic. Mrs. Andrews stands beside President Trujillo as they watch Dominican soldiers marching with flags.
U.S. Torpedo Bombers TBF Avenger in flight over Espiritu Santo Island. The TBF Avenger bombers in various formations over clouds.
Ramfis Trujillo, son of the assassinated Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, seated, and surrounded by dignitaries and the Press in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Among those with him is playboy, Porfirio Rubirosa, whom he assigns as an envoy to seek support from the United States. Reporters take notes and photographers click his pictures. Cathedral in San Cristobal, the scene of Trujillo's funeral. People cry as car with Rafael Trujillo's body passes by on street. Change of scene as next newsreel shows sweeping wide view of buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, and then scenes of a parade in Pretoria during holiday declared to mark its withdrawal from the British Commonwealth of Nations and establishment as an independent Republic. The parade includes Soldiers on horses. The new Coat of Arms of the South African Republic is shown. Former Governor General, now shifting to his role as the first President of South Africa, Charles Swart, addresses the public. Narrator indicates that Swart's comment include support for continued apartheid racial segregation in South Africa.
Location looks like Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands, during World War 2. Palm trees in background. The weather is clear and sunny. Plane captain, in shorts, climbs into cockpit of an F4U corsair airplane of Marine Aircraft Group 11 (Number 525 on fuselage). Marine pilot hands him his seat pack parachute, which the plane captain places into the seat. The pilot climbs into cockpit, as plane captain stands on right wing and gives thumbs up for engine start. The engine does not start, so he walks along wing to check the engine. The scene is repeated, with plane captain scrambling over the fuselage again to a position on the wing for engine start. This time the engine starts. He clambers back to cockpit and helps pilot with his shoulder harness. Another view of this shown in closeup from left wing of the aircraft. View from in front of the aircraft, as engine starts, and plane captain steps up to help pilot with shoulder harness.