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After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.

Horror over the Pacific in the form of Japanese perfidy is the theme of this special two reel. The amazing story of the Jap double-cross from the naval conference in 1921-22 to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the present war in the Pacific.

From 1889 to 1949, General Ishiwara's military, ideological and political career took in the key moments of Japanese History, in a most spectacular way: the forced opening to the West, Hiroshima, the China war and Pearl Harbour.

Huie and Burt interview Norman Thomas, six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. topics include criticism of the Eisenhower administration's foreign policy regarding the Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan, discussion of communism, the bombing of Chinese supply bases in Manchuria, political recognition of the People's Republic of China, the Korean War truce, and the possibility of World War III or world peace.

Larry Lesueur and Lou Cioffi, CBS news correspondents, interview General James A. Van Fleet, the former commander of the U.S. Eighth Army stationed in Korea. Topics include ways that the United States might have won the Korean War, military lessons learned in that conflict and Van Fleet's analysis of the cold war with the Soviet Union, the state of Chiang Kai-shek's military forces and the current situation in Indochina and Iran.

Lesueur and Heckscher interview Daniel A. Poling, the editor of the Christian Herald and president of the Armed Services Chaplains Association. Topics include Poling's observations after visiting Formosa and the People's Republic of China, his impressions of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, his support for the American commitment to defend the National Chinese government on Formosa, Sino-Soviet relations and communism's self-destructive tendencies

The Armchair Historian traces the reasons for the communist party to defeat the forces of Chiang Kai Shek following World War II.