An American flag flies from an open third story window of an apartment building in Berlin, Germany. It is Winter, with ice visible on the street. An American officer, two French officers, and a civilian man, together with several ladies, stand on the sidewalk and look up at the American flag.
Poor people receive food at a soup kitchen in Prague, Czechoslovakia. People stand in queue. Officers stand besides gate of the kitchen. Children go in line. People queue for soup at the window with cups in hand. A man at window pours soup in cup from a kettle.
Poor people receive soup from soup kitchen in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Children stand with jugs, women stand behind children. A child in the lap of a woman looks into cup and drinks. A man helps an old man. People stand on road besides snow covered ground. They drink from cups with spoons. An old lady stands and drinks soup with spoon.
Doctors examine patients at a clinic in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Snow covered road. People walk past clinic and enter the gate. An old man walks out of the gate. Patients lay on beds. A doctor examines a bedridden patient. Other patients sit on their beds. Nurse and other men stand past beds.
Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard University, special assistant to the Department of State, assigned to the American Commission to negotiate peace after World War 1. He is seen in this sequence, with members of his staff, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, from where they assessed postwar political conditions in Austria-Hungary and neighborhood countries, and made recommendations for the U.S. participants at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The sequence begins with staff members walking from the Hofburg (Hofburg, Michaelerkuppel 1010 Wien). It is January, and snow is on the ground. Professor Coolidge holds gloves in his left hand and warms his right hand inside his coat in Napoleonic manner, as he chats with others. Staff members are predominantly military officers and include both U.S. Army and Navy personnel.
American 137th Infantry troops in France. Troops march through a French town. Two soldiers on a motorcycle pass on the road. Troops carry packs on their backs. Water and mud on road.
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