Vice President Barkley and Speaker Rayburn welcome Prime Minister Churchill as he arrives
to address a joint session of Congress.
He emphasizes that Britain seeks help only to play her part in the common defense of
liberty.
I have not come here to ask you for money.
To ask you for money to make life more comfortable or easier for us in Britain.
Our standards of life are our own business and we can only keep our self-respect and
independence by looking after them ourselves.
It is the policy of the United States to help forward in many countries the process of rearmament.
That is why I have come here to ask not for gold but for steel not for favors but equipment.
That is why many of our requests have been so well and generously met.
The vast process of American rearmament in which the British Commonwealth and Empire
and the growing power of united Europe will play their part to the utmost of their strength.
This vast process has already altered the balance of the world and may well if we all
persevere steadfastly and loyally together avert the danger of a third world war or the
horror and of defeat and subjugation should one come upon us.
Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt pays a sentimental visit to the French town of Lanois near the
Belgian border.
Here is situated the ancestral home of the Delano branch of the Roosevelt family.
As part of the welcoming ceremony the mayor of Lanois presents the document making the
widow of our late president an honorary citizen of this small community.
He also congratulated her on her efforts for peace and social justice.
Eleanor Roosevelt's goal is Lanois Castle home of the Delano family.
It was from here in the year 1624 that an ancestor of the Delano family left Lanois
to settle on Manhattan Island.
Police can be really rugged in the city of Berlin whose split personality is controlled
on the east by the Russians and on the west by the allied command.
Police of western Berlin check incoming vehicles for contraband.
Such measures are necessary to protect the western zone's economy and its German mark.
It looks like this crew bagged a smuggler.
Yep here's the contraband, parts of furniture in this false compartment and in the double
roof stockings and bales of textile fabrics.
The smuggled goods are confiscated and added to a mountain collection in the warehouse.
A strange sidelight on a city divided between two currencies and two controls.
My name is Humphrey Bogart in case those of you in the audience who are either too young
or too old know who I am.
I've been asked by the Treasury Department to tell you about the improved E-bond.
In a way I suppose I'm a sort of a salesman.
Although I personally don't think that E-bonds need selling.
You want to be knocking at Uncle Sam's door to buy them.
You see I'm not selling you used cars, television sets, sewing machines, etc., etc.
I'm selling you a stake in the future of America and the safety and security of all
of us.
When the Treasury Department called me I asked them what's the difference between E-bond
and any other kind of defense bond.
Now if you listen to me for a moment I'll let you in on something.
This new improved E-bond pays you 3 percent.
If you hold it full time 10 years after maturity you get back twice as much money or almost
twice as much money as you put into it.
In other words you almost double your dough.
I think that's a pretty fair proposition.
The United States government stands squarely behind these bonds.
Now even better.
Iraq's 17 year old King Faisal II arrives in New York aboard the Queen Mary for a five
week official visit to the U.S.
The young monarch told reporters his visit is educational.
He's particularly interested in seeing irrigation projects.
But the British educated King is interested in other things American.
And one of the first things on his Royal Highness' agenda is a giant Dodgers game.
And who does he root for?
Brooklyn, naturally.
Korea President Syngman Rhee arrives at Eighth Army headquarters in Seoul.
The occasion and expression of his nation's gratitude for the U.S. forces defense of our
Asian ally.
Just returned to office by an overwhelming majority five million out of seven million
cast in Korea's first popular presidential election Dr. Rhee reads a citation of honor.
Then as Mrs. Rhee looks on Korea's chief of state bestows a high award on General James
Van Fleet, Eighth Army commander.
A token of his country's gratitude to America and the U.N.
Hollywood pays tribute to bright new stars of tomorrow chosen by film fans throughout
the world in photo play magazine's annual Choose Your Stars poll.
Top winners in the poll are honored at a luncheon with Terrone Power as emcee.
Fans go to lovely Universal starlet Laurie Nelson and to Tab Hunter.
Blue eyed and blonde Laurie triumphed over the second ranking actress in the poll by
a three to one margin.
Joining all of film land in congratulating the lucky pair is William Goetz, production
chief at Universal International.
A floral fantasia of horticultural headdresses enchants the eye for the benefit of charity.
Produced by Oakland California's Diablo Country Club with an assist from the Master Forest
Association.
Birds in a gilded cage, more than 500 flowers in 37 hours went into its composition.
This imaginative creation is entitled on wings of fantasy and an appropriate name for the
five foot wide headdress fashioned of carnations.
Here's one that explains itself.
It contains one thousand six hundred chrysanthemums, carnations and orchids.
But every one of these show pieces is stunningly effective.
For instance, this topical flying saucer.
Spectators enter into the spirit of things and some ornate creations are to be seen on
the sidelines.
Enthusiasm for the show that helps achieve the real purpose to aid the city's children's
hospital.
As in earlier years, the traditional fundraising ball is truly a spectacular success.
Glamorous, glorious Swanson, well guarded, arrives at the Waldorf wearing the world's
most expensive gown.
The dress is covered with one hundred thousand cultured pearls.
It is worth one hundred thousand dollars and weighs thirty pounds as Miss Swanson can tell
you.
It took fifteen years to gather the pre-war cultured pearls and eight press makers worked
two years to complete the job.
The beautiful stage and screen star of course wears the proper accessories.
The Imperial Pearl Syndicate is donating the gown to the Damon Runyon Fund for cancer research.
This fabulous costume will first be shown at a series of benefits throughout the country.
Fashions come a la carte at this youngster style show in Copenhagen, Denmark.
All the latest models are on parade during the exhibition of junior creations for the
young miss and the young master.
Critical eyes watch approvingly from the sidelines and note that it is not always fair weather
you must prepare for.
Also, every wardrobe must include a cowpoke outfit.
Your formal attire, the girl of your dreams and the new creation you've dreamed about.
And speaking of dreams, it's time to say good night.
Hey, watch your language there young fella.
Hollywood turns out for the Oscar Awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
N.J. Bloomberg, president of Universal International Pictures and Mrs. Bloomberg lead a parade
of celebrities including Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Stewart.
The night is bright with stars.
Julia Adams is here with her husband to witness the presentations.
Shelley Winters and Vittorio Gassman attend the 24th annual awards as do Donald O'Connor
and Mrs. O'Connor and that grand old veteran of the screen, Charles Coburn.
It was a year marked by fine films.
Lovely Greer Garson accepts the award for Vivian Ley and stands by to present an Oscar
to Humphrey Bogart.
Miss Ley's award was for best actress and Mr. Bogart's for best performance by an actor.
The many excellent films produced during the year made a close contest.
At the Political and Security Committee meeting of the seventh session of the United Nations
Assembly the spotlight falls dramatically on Secretary of State Dean Acheson as he prepares
to outline the United States position on the Korean War.
It is a tense assembly that hears America's leader of foreign policy in calm and measured
tones issue an indictment of Russia's role in the present conflict.
During the presentation the Soviet Foreign Minister takes copious notes.
Acheson questions Russia's good faith on the armistice.
His address is warmly greeted by a majority of the assembly and he receives the congratulations
of diplomats of the Western Bloc.
Once again free nations and countries of the Iron Curtain Bloc face each other before the
Parliament of Nations and calm reason prevails.
Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson and his running mate Senator Sparkman of Alabama
arrive at the White House for a strategy conference with President Truman.
A Washington crowd is on hand to view the new standard bearers as they go into a huddle
with the chief executive.
The president has promised his full support to the Illinois governor and has offered to
campaign actively on his behalf.
While the Democratic high command confers General Eisenhower and his political advisors
gather in Denver to map Republican plans.
John Foster Dulles is high in the councils as he helps chart a foreign policy course
for Senator Nixon, vice presidential candidate and General Ike.
On their decisions rests GOP hopes as the curtain rises on one of the most fateful election
years in American history.
Egypt's strongman General Mohammed Naguib appeals to the people to meet the first major challenge
to his reform program.
The powerful anti-British waft party defied Naguib when he ordered that corrupt leaders
be expelled including the popular Nahas Pasha once Farouk's premier.
In reply Naguib toured the congested peasant districts of the Nile Delta to be met with
fanatical enthusiasm, an unmistakable popular verdict in his favor.
A waft capitulated clearing the way for Naguib's much needed reform program to better the lot
of Egypt, one of the world's most poverty stricken nations.
A new bunker hill makes history.
This one's in Korea, in our hands at the moment, and U.S. Marines are busy seeing to it that
bunker hill remains in our hands.
Enemy bunkers on bunker hill get a going over from grenades as the leathernecks close in
for the kill.
A dose of their own medicine slows them down, but only temporarily.
His machine gun is jammed, but his isn't, and he pins down the reds dug in ahead of
the advancing leathernecks.
Things are quiet in the truce tents at Tanmunjom, not far distant, but on this one small sector
of the Korean front, action flares briefly as a Marine detachment carries out its assignment
to blast them out or burn them out at their last remaining foothold on bunker hill.
For the moment, at least, the situation is well in hand.
Cuba once again experiences a revolution.
The regime of President Carlos Prios Xicaras is ended by a combined group of younger elements
of the Army, Navy, and police headed by former President Fulgencio Batista.
The revolution kicked off at 2.43 in the morning, lasted little more than an hour.
In another coup staged in 1933, Batista started a rule of disciplined democracy which lasted
for 11 years.
This time, the overthrow of the government is almost bloodless.
Two palace guards were slain, and shortly after, deposed President Prios and members
of his cabinet took off by plane for Mexico.
The former sergeant, now General Fulgencio Batista, comes to Camp Columbia, Cuba's key
army base, with his supporters to address his troops and present his case to his countrymen.
Batista said he had lost confidence in the Prios government and intends to maintain law
and order as a friend of the people until a free election.
It's in retrospect, a look back on the sporting scene in 1952.
Big news, big crowds, a big year for thrills and excitement.
A slow motion study of a favorite striding to victory in the Kentucky Derby, his name,
Hill Gale, the classic cult of Calumet farms, written by an old hand at Derby Triumphs, Eddie
Arcaro, his fifth coming up.
Man and beast roughing into Turpdom's Hall of Fame in 1952.
A year that saw 37 out of the 47 starters come a-crowder in England's pulse-tingling
steeplechase, the Grand National.
Four and a half miles, 30 grueling obstacles, the road to glory but for one, disaster for
most of the others.
The favorite has fallen, and now 13 is a lucky number for a 10-year-old named Teal, second
choice of the 250,000 racing fans.
Every day at Aintree, England.
Boxing and a new heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano of Brockton, Massachusetts.
Felt in the first round by the aging Jersey Joe Walcott, the 28-year-old XGI came back
strong in a drama-packed 13th.
A right-handed jaw-crusher knocked Jersey Joe loose from his senses and his title.
Ex at Walcott, enter Rocky Marciano.
One punch gained him the richest crown of boxing.
A big year in baseball and the big story in baseball, the Yankees and their winning ways.
They did it again with young stars like Mickey Mantle at the plate and veterans like Ali
Reynolds on the mound.
The American League leaders kept a tight grip on their World Series crown by subduing the
Brooklyn Dodgers, four games to three.
It was their fourth straight World Championship under the managerial genius of Casey Stengel.
Will it be number five for old Case in 53?
Time will tell.
The basketball scandals of 51 were all but forgotten by the end of the 52 season when
the Cinderella team from Philadelphia, the LaSalle Explorers, captured the hearts of
basketball fans in the National Invitation Tournament.
The most underrated quintet of the 12 college teams entered, LaSalle took on the top-seeded
teams and then took the play away from Dayton in the finals.
A big upset and a big story of the year in basketball, invitation to jubilation in New
York.
Memorial Day at Indianapolis, the big day of the year for auto racing and a big feel
down for fame and fortune in the 500-mile Speedway Classic on the famous brick track.
When he started, the pace was telling and some did not finish.
Bill Vukovich was leading with only eight laps to go when this happened.
And then the checkered flag signaled the emergence of a new Speedway king, the youngest driver
and the heftiest, Troy Rutman of Linwood, California.
Big baby of the 500 in 1952.
Big story of the Summer Olympics was the participation of Russian teams.
The boys who did and died for Uncle Joe brought, along with a temporary smile of good fellowship,
their own scoring system.
We won, they told the home folks.
Everybody else knew who won.
But everybody else was busy applauding performers like Ami Ozerevec of Czechoslovakia, winner
of three events in distant racing.
Zatopec's unprecedented triple victory was one of the highlights of the game that saw
Uncle Sam's star-spangled athletes achieve their greatest Olympic triumph ever at Helsinki.
Another standout thriller was the 100-meter dash so close the camera had to pick the winner,
Cindy Romigino of New York.
Moment of glory for winners, where masked flanks on the Olympic torch were backdrops
for the final act of sports' greatest drama in a great year for sports.
50,000 football fans at Cleveland see the Detroit Lions get going against the Cleveland
Browns in the playoffs for the pro title.
Texas Bobby Lane to Bill Swiecki, and the Lions are knocking at the payoff door.
On a quarterback sneak, Lane bangs the door open, and the Lions, though outgained in every
department, are never overtaken.
They took the best Otto Graham and his brother Browns had to offer, stymied several scoring
threats, and rough you bet.
Ooh, that hurt.
Darrell Brewster must think a truck hit him.
The Browns had won five pro titles, and with Harry Gigetti bowling for yardage right now,
Cleveland Rooters take heart that the home team may do it again, but their hopes are
short-lived.
There's nothing like a pass interception to slow the opposition down.
Graham hits his man, but it's deflected, and Jim David intercepts.
The Lions are a big step closer to their first pro title in 17 years.
It's practically clenched when Doak Walker of SMU fame breaks loose for the longest play
of the game.
67 yards for a touchdown.
They can't catch him.
17 years is a long time between titles, and this is the year that the Lions roar.
With new cars getting bigger and parking spaces getting smaller, at Piedmont, California,
an inventor has developed something to soothe the motorist's headache.
By putting the spare tire to work.
He calls this device the park car and says it can be installed on any model.
Watch how it works.
Taking power from the drive shaft, the spare tire swings the rear end into the clear.
Then he just retracts the spare, backs into the street, and away we go.
It's handy for parking in inaccessible garages, too.
Here's a narrow driveway, but with the spare tire put to work, the car can turn a complete
circle in its own radius, and parking is simple indeed.
Even the worst driver can make the garage without denting a fender with the aid of fifth
wheel driving.
High point of an exhibition of watches and jewelry in Geneva, Switzerland, are mechanical
figures rivaling real life in their amazing actions.
The caterpillar was made 200 years ago.
Swiss watchmakers created the intricate miniatures in their spare time.
Here's a tiny music box with animated puppets no bigger than your thumbnail.
Musical mechanics in a merry mood, little gems of artistic precision.
Here are some carved wood automatons created by makers of cuckoo clocks.
A cobbler at his last and his wife gets in the last word, driving him cuckoo, I suppose.
Perhaps he wishes he had wings like a bird.
You'd think they were real.
They certainly sound realistic, but I'll let you in on a secret.
This is an inside job.
Among the exhibits are the world famous new chatelle dolls made in 1774, and the most
famous of these is one called simply the artist.
A perfectionist like the watchmaker who constructed him years ago, the artist is truly a creature
of the machine age, and his steady hand has never faltered down the years.
With care, he and his musically mechanical companions will live forever.
If you stumbled upon these Dutchmen in the woods near Overveen, you might wonder what's
going on.
No, they're not fugitives from a vulgar boatman.
The Russian hop is just part of their training.
If you think they look like skaters, you're absolutely right.
They are skaters getting in shape for the Winter Olympics in Norway.
It's sort of a pre-flight training here.
Since their muscles are in tip-top condition, these Dutch champs will take off for a real
workout on the ice.
They're learning the ground rules first.
Soccer has gone to the dogs in Paris with surprising results.
Using a balloon for a ball, trained boxers stage a sporting free-for-all that brings
down the house.
Keeping the ball in play with a stick, their referee trainer spends a lot of time on his
backfield.
He's a hound for punishment.
Though chained to his post, the goalie saves the day as the foe puts the bite on him.
They're barking up the wrong tree.
All together, lads, hunt diggity dog.
Now that weighs the wolf.
What's a haystack doing in the middle of London?
Why, to hide a needle in and dramatize the old saying.
It's sewing week in old London town, so here we go to find a needle in an ice stack.
The guy or gal who finds it wins a brand new sewing machine.
At home, if mama lost a needle, she wouldn't exert herself like this.
She'd know that when papa sat down, the needle would turn up.
Get the point?
So far, no luck.
Things are only so-so.
But you'll have to admit the search party is giving up with the horsepower.
They just need a little more time.
A magnet availed its owner not.
Luck was enough for Rhoda Selby, who now threads her way through the throng to receive her
coveted award.
Capt, stuck in tree may be an old story to you, but to the good folk who live on the
Rue Paul Feval in Paris, it is new and dramatic.
Seeing what waits for her below makes Kitty all the more keen to stay where she is.
Four days in a tree is no picnic, but keeping tabs on Tabby is a mortal enemy.
And Chateaunette, that's her name, says, not yet.
You want I should go to the dogs?
Closer, closer.
Oops.
Into the net goes Chateaunette, nine lives still to go.
Paris can rest easy, and an army of rescuers can be demobilized.
Now if somebody will hold the dogs, Chateaunette can get a square meal and four square tall
trees from now on.
May we drink hearty, and we will drink with you.
Canada pays tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth with a life-size statue of butter.
Over 2,000 pounds of fresh Grade A farm butter were used by sculptor Owen Butler in his masterpiece,
which depicts the Queen in her uniform as commander in chief of the Grenadier Guards.
Just a final pat or two, and the statue is ready for display at the Canadian National
Exhibition in Toronto.
One might say it looks good enough to eat, and that's its eventual fate.
After the exhibition, it will be washed, sterilized, and eaten, but the work will be preserved
for posterity in a plastic cast.
So far, nobody has churned up any objections in England, where butter, even for the Queen's
table, is strictly rationed.
The statue, in fact, is considered to be in very good taste.
But now, an abrupt change in tempo as the jitterbug jive contingent takes over.
These acrobatic hip cats have the floorboards jumping.
Solid, man.