Shows Information section of the League of Nations, electricity pylons and radio transmitters in Geneva, Switzerland. Radio broadcasts for the League of Nations in different languages such as English, French and Spanish.
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.
Avenol to camera introduces Anthony Eden who speaks of the League of Nations and its future. He sums up purpose of the League, "...we have a consistent principle of action for peace."