Summing Up No. 06 - Reel 2 (1947)

A Quarterly Chronicle of Current Events. Produced by the Pathe Documentary Unit. Fourth Quarter 1947. Continued from Previous Reel. France: Demonstrations in General Charles de Gaulle calls for support for the Marshall Plan. Maurice Thorez - leader of the Communist Party - calls for rejection of the Plan and stronger links with Soviet Russia. Trouble in Paris streets. Strikes in Europe. Paris: rubbish mounts in street. Sabotage - wreckage of train. French Assembly. President summons a new Premier - Robert Schuman. Washington DC, United States of America (USA): anti-Communist enquiry investigates motion picture / film industry - UnAmerican activities. Chairman Parnell Thomas opens proceedings. Adolphe Menjou attacks communism. Robert Taylor does likewise. Richard Nixon is in attendance. Screen-writer John Howard Lawson refuses to answer the question “Are you a member of the Communist Party?“ and is charged with contempt of Congress. Unidentified speaker (possibly Eric Johnston, Film