Description: I. "Aktuelles in Kuerze." a. Dedication of a memorial to those killed in the Berlin airlift, at Fassberg airfield in the British Zone. b. 2 Czech tennis stars, Drobny and Cernik, use opportunity of Swiss tennis tournament, to seek political asylum in the West (film of them playing in the tournament). c. "Election campaign begins in England": Churchill speaks to mass crowd in Wolverhampton football ground, explaining his view on difference between English socialism and international Communism ("not of theory, but one of method").
II. German canoe championships on Starnbergersee near Munich.
III. "Berliner Streiflichter." a. Dealings at the one market (at Wannsee in West Berlin) open to both East and West residents and currencies; different values of E and D Marks provide useful propaganda. b. Berlin children improvise holiday 'resorts', swimming in a large bomb/excavation site, 'rock climbing' on a demolished bunker in Tiergarten.
IV. Yale University choir on European tour; film of a performance of a yodelling song.
V. American scientific expedition ship launching rockets for upper-atmosphere research experiments.
VI. Summer fashions and beachwear 'informally' shown on island resort of Westerland.
