New episode of the "Battle of Algiers" with the arrest by the paratroopers in the Algiers kasbah of the head of the FLN, Yacef SAADI and his companion Zohra DRIF.
Mr Gaston DEFFERRE, Minister of France of Overseas France, visited the capital of the new state of Cameroon to witness the birth of his first government. Recently, France granted independence to Cameroon. The minister set up the first ministry of the young state there, which includes 15 secretaries of state including one European.
At the Palais du Capitole, in Rome, the representatives of Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the Foreign Minister Christian PINEAU for France, have signed the Treaty establishing the Common Market and Euratom.
As part of the French Football Championship, the AS Saint-Etienne wins (2-1) on the fields of one of its most serious rivals, the Racing Club de Paris, and takes an option on the title of champion. Both Stéphanois goals were scored by young forward-center Eugène N' Jo Lea.
Signed on 21 July 1954, the Geneva Accords put an end to the conflict in Indochina. At the same time, the Trung Gia conference allows the ceasefire to enter into force. Civilians are evacuated for Vietnam, especially the Hmong, who had made a case for the French. Comment on images of the signing of the ceasefire between Colonel Lenneuyeux and General Viêtminh Van Tien Dung and civilians evacuated to Vietnam by truck or boat.
Continuation of the "Seagull" operation in the south of the Tonkinian delta. This involves "cleaning up" the Red River delta of any Vietminh presence. Commentary on images of tanks progressing in the hills, soldiers shooting machine guns and planes dropping napalm bombs.
La Reine Elizabeth II, accompagnée du Duc d'Edimbourg, quittent Buckingham Palace à Londres, dans son carrosse attelé de chevaux blancs. Le carrosse passe à côté de la foule et de la horse-Guards de la Garde Royale pour se rendre à Westminster.
On the occasion of the new school year, a report on the construction of new schools and the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated materials to cope with the increase in the number of pupils in France.
On 18 April 1951, the Foreign Ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Italy and the Netherlands signed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, quai d'Orsay in Paris, the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
Images of an original race contested in the United States, putting at the catch on snow "planes without wings mounted on skis", kind of ancestors of snow scooters.
Presentation of spring-summer fashion 1946, high-cost woman, at Bois de Boulogne: mannequins present dresses and tailors of the houses Jacques Fath, Carven, Madeleine Vramant, Robert Piguet, Lucien Lelong and find themselves around a picnicfuck on the grass.
Report dedicated to the winter assistance of the Secours National in 1941: departure of the French donations to the disaster areas, preparation and sale of portraits of Marshal PETAIN by the postmen in the French countryside. 12
At the Palace of Blenheim, in England, models from Paris present in front of Princess Margaret and the Duke of Marlborough the collection of Christian Dior characterized by the "H line". Two thousand people attended the parade, donated to the English Red Cross.
The Nobel prizes were awarded in Stockholm in the grand concert hall, in the presence of the royal family. The French François MAURIAC received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Images of the official ceremony.
Pictures of Operation "Brittany" in the Red River Delta, in Nam Dinh: weapons caches were found and prisoners were taken. Commentary on images of a fire, bombing, soldiers walking in line in the rice fieldss and seizing weapons in a village.
Sujet muet. In the aftermath of De GAULLE’s speech on self-determination, the Algerians of Bab El Oued switch to the Front for French Algeria. Images of Algerians signing their membership in this new party.