U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson on the Cover of Newsweek magazine, December 9, 1963. Members of the Washington Press Corps covering news and events from the White House under the new President, Lyndon Johnson. Members of the Press pick up news releases and attend a news briefing in the White House. Views of many members of the press and media in conversation and during setup activities for a press briefing in the White House. Views of motion picture camera crews preparing cameras for the event.
Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba. Fidel Castro makes an appearance before the Pan-American Youth Congress in Havana. He announcers the seizure of three quarters of a billion dollars of U.S. property in Cuba. People hold banners of 'Havana' and 'Venezuela'. The crowd cheers.
Japanese troops parade for Emperor Hirohito, mounted upon a white horse. Italian troops goosestep and German troops goosestep on parade. View of an Austrian town with snow-covered Alps mountains in background as German troops enter Austria on March 13, 1938 during the Anschluss. Local citizens welcome them, displaying swastika flags and giving Nazi straight arm salutes. Troops, military vehicles, tanks, motorcycles, and horse-drawn artillery comprise the German invading force. Shifts to Spain, where war torn buildings reflect effects of German and Italian intervention during the Spanish Civil War. A donkey standing near field artillery piece. Artillery being fired from an urban park in Spain. Artilleryman using a range finder. German gun crew with heavy artillery piece. Soldiers wearing Adrian steel helmets, firing a two-wheeled water-cooled machine gun. Spanish carrying wounded on stretcher. Spanish civilians inadvertently slain during civil war conflict. Starving dog walking in street. Huge poster of Francisco Franco and view of him on reviewing stand saluting marching Nationalist troops. Repeat of Hirohito reviewing troops and Italian and German troops goosestep. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini stand together in open car heading to Fuhrerbau in Munich, Germany, for signing of Agreement between Germany, Italy, Britain, and France in 1938. Neville Chamberlain, and Edouard Daladier riding in car to Fuhrerbau. Views of the principals signing the accords. First is Adolf Hitler, followed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Edouard Daladier. After the signing, the principals, plus Hermann Goering, mingle and converse. Change of scene to nighttime in Rome, Italy, where Benito Mussolini addresses a huge throng gathered near the Victor Emmanuel Memorial to cheer him after his return from Munich. Next, German troops are seen entering Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) greeted by joyous ethnic German inhabitants. Banners are stretched across a street. One gives thanks to the Fuhrer. Several scenes of cheering population. A woman strews flowers in a roadway. Hitler arrives, standing in an open car, and is met with cheers of adulation. A military brass band plays from the open beds of two moving army trucks. Signpost points to Prag (Prague), Eger (Cheb), Joachimstal (Jáchymov), and Komotau (Chomutov) after German annexation. Scene shifts to Prague, where German troops are seen occupying the city. High ranking German officers in a car are seen coming through the gateway from the Court d´honneur of the Prague Castle into the Hradčany Square. The next sequence shows an Italian Freccia-Class destroyer in the Albanian Port of Durrës. An Italian L3/35 Tankette is driven off a large cargo ship. Italian troops on bicycles ride in a city street. A German 88mm antiaircraft (flak) gun is shown, mounted at a fort overlooking a river and city. Final scene shows Adolf Hitler addressing a meeting of the Bundestag in the Kroll Opera House (alternate meeting place after burning of the Reichstag). He reads, contemptuously from an April 14, 1939 letter sent to him by U.S. President Roosevelt, asking him to give "assurance that your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following independent nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iran." As Hitler reads through the litany of nations, the Bundestag erupts in laughter.
Italian ambassador to U.S. Don Ascanio Colonna at the Italian Chancery in Washington DC. Ascanio Colonna seated at desk as he reads documents and answers calls. Portrait of King Victor Emmanuel III on the wall. Don Ascanio Colonna smokes a cigarette and converses with an aide.
U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington D.C. Eight members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee seated at a table as they discuss American aid to Finland. Arthur B Vandenberg; Hiram W Johnson; William E Borah; Key Pittman; Chairman Pat Harrison; Walter F George; Tom Connelly; Alben W Barkley seated at table. They look and documents and converse with each other.
U.S. Governors from different states meet to discuss problems of national security in Duluth, Minnesota. Governors from various states in the United States seen seated at table during the meeting. One of them gives a brief speech at the podium. Young girls present a bouquet of flowers. Governors stand by a river side as a Native American Indian man and two women arrive by canoe and deliver a stringer of fish to the governors.
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