Secretary of State Department, Cordell Hull at office with his staff. World map. Door sign 'Division of European Affairs. 'Officer with other men at work. Ambassador Hugh Wilson in Berlin and Ambassador William Phillips in Rome. British and French U.S. diplomats, Joseph P. Kennedy in London, England United Kingdom; and W.C. Bullitt at conference in Paris. Consul General George Wadsworth at American consulate in Jerusalem, Palestine; and J.C. Grew in Tokyo, Japan.
A film justifying Japanese fight in mainland China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japanese soldier looks through binoculars. Soldiers on horsebacks advance. Army jeeps move along a field. The Great Wall of China. Japanese troops fire artillery. Aircraft in flight. Japanese soldiers in prone positions. The troops fire from a trench. They load artillery gun with shells on a field. A map of China highlights puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria established by Japan in 1932. Celebrations in Manchukuo showing Japanese troops and a band along the streets. Children march holding flags.
Japanese soldiers in Kiukiang (Jiujiang), Jiangxi, China during the second Sino-Japanese war. They stage mock war exercises. Soldiers fire rifles and machine guns from a trench. The soldiers come down a hill. The quarters of General Shunroku Hata, Commander-in-Chief of Expeditionary Forces in Central China. General Hata talks with General Hamada, Staff Officer of the Press and Propaganda Section. Exterior of the gateway to General Hata's quarters. Japanese Consul Komori and Japanese citizens of Kiukiang gather at Consul's residence to pay respect to the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-0073, Japan) in Tokyo. They bow towards the location of the Imperial Palace, in Tokyo, where the Japanese emperor is "supposedly" bowing.