Shanghai Hails Chiang Kai-Shek (1946)
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Channel: Nuclear Vault · 2011 · Education
United News Newsreel. Part 1, Chiang deplanes, is greeted by Gen. Wedemeyer, and cheered in the city. Part 2, Japanese Gen. Homma is tried and sentenced to death by the U.S. Military Commission in Manila. Part 3 shows food conservation leaders: Hoover, Truman, Herbert Lehman, Henry Wallace, Eric Johnston, and Henry Luce. Sec. Anderson asks Americans to help. Part 4, soldiers ski at the 8th Army Enlisted Men's Rest Center on Honshu Island (Japan). Part 5, a concrete house is built by pouring cement into a large mold. Part 6, Hirohito tours Honshu Is. He watches U.S. occupation forces delouse Japanese and visits a hospital. Part 7 shows boxing in the Golden Gloves Tournament in Madison Square Garden.
