Mexican civilians in a crowded street in front of the Central Bank of Mexico (2, 5 de Mayo Ave. Alc. Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City) called 'Banco de Mexico'. People on bank counters in the Central Bank of Mexico. Silver coins heaped on counters. Bags loaded in Bank vehicles.
View of the city of Guadalajara in Mexico. Clouds seen over the mountains and the city. Crowd at the Railroad Station. Shops, Banks and Commercial Agencies in the streets. Pedestrians and cars in street. Homes in tree lined streets.
Tourists in Los Angles, California. Tourists on a sidewalk. Tourists board a sight seeing bus. Exteriors of an industrial plant. Smoke rises from a chimney. View of a village in Guadalajara, Mexico. Natives pose in a street. Skyline of the city with church steeples.
Presidential Election in Mexico City, Mexico. The voters gather outside a building during Presidential Election in Mexico City. Provisional President Emilio Portes Gill arrives in a motor carriage. Portes Gill gets off the car and enters the building. Other officials follow him. The Provisional President casts his ballot. Portes Gill with the officials outside the building.
Thousands of citizens march in Mexico City demonstrating for Mexico to declare war against the Axis powers in World War 2. They converge on the main plaza (Zócalo) where President Manuel Ávila Camacho stands on the balcony of the Presidential Palace, with his wife, Doña Soledad Orozco García de Ávila Camacho, and members of his staff. View from a high point overlooking the plaza, showing thousands massed with the Mexico City Cathedral in the background. Narrator states that citizens protest against axis sinking of unarmed mexican ships. Flags of the United States, and allied flags are displayed. Flags are waved in salute for their dead comrades, by Survors of the SS Potrero del Llano, a Mexican ship torpedoed by the German submarine, U-564, on May 13, 1942. Camera pans over the square filled with people and banners. Next, President Camacho is seen asking the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for a declaration of war. People on the streets (some sitting on street lamps) listen to the broadcast over loudspeakers. Mexican Army soldiers seen in helmets. Uniformed troops line a sidewalk. Deputies applaud after unanimously approving the declaration of war.
Traffic and hustle bustle on the streets in Mexico City, Mexico. Traffic moves around the El Caballito. Buildings around a branch of the National Bank. People walking on a small street between buildings. Business and residential buildings with a few churches around. Dusk view of the Mexico City and vehicles drive past on a road.
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