Shows the Legal section of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Two men in office. Large ledger removed from shelf and written in. Joseph Avenol speaks to the camera. Shows the Political section. Frank P. Walters speaks to the camera and talks of recent problems of the League. Assembly members arrive and take seats. Anthony Eden speaks. A political agitator on soapbox addresses an outdoor meeting. An African American addresses meeting.
Shows men walking down stairs of the League of Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr de Hallah speaks regarding the mandate system. Shows maps and montage shots of mandated areas. Shows tropical forest, tea picking, rice picking. Interior View of the League in session.
Thanassis Aghnides speaks on disarmament policies at League of Nations meeting in Geneva, Switzerland before outbreak of World War 2. Montage short shows military action (cavalry charge, biplane aircraft overhead, and aerial bombs-away view of bombing of a city) and civilian deaths of woman and child as casualties in World War I. British politician Arthur Henderson speaks at the opening of the 1932 World disarmament conference. League's Year books which give details about world's arms and trade in arms. Shows factories and industrial landscape with smoke pouring from chimney stacks, and loading operations at a dock for the ship named Baradine.
Avenol speaks to camera. Economic section of the League of Nations in Geneva,Switzerland. Man along a corridor. Economic section meeting in small room. Economic Intelligence service. Mr Alexander Loveday speaks. Montage shots of financial districts. Statistical year book 1935 /1936.
Close-up view of wheels of a moving locomotive train (taken from an adjancent fast-moving train). Shots of steam train wheel turning sometimes obstructed by wisps of steam. View of connection area between locomotive and first train car on moving railroad train. Docks and a harbor. 1930s car approaching on a deserted highway; a passport; a small airport.
Film about Social Section of the League of Nations. View of poor British children gathered and playing on cobbled street of England. Baby in a pram is also present and a small dog. Exterior views of prison building and a single prison window in England. View of a British street with shot of hotel sign, '27 Hotel' in England. A solitary woman walks on the street in Britain. Commentary explains the League's work in the abolition of brothels and prostitution. Campaign against dangerous drugs and narcotics. Boats and junks in a harbor, probably Hong Kong Harbor. Old Scotland yard. View of illegal drug heroin, hashish and other illegal drugs and paraphernalia seized and laid out on a table with identifying signs on each.
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