Crewmen load hedgehogs on deck of United States Navy Destroyer Escort Charles E. Brannon (DE-446) in Seattle, Washington. Men pass hedgehogs to a loader. Hedgehogs loaded onto a launcher. An officer looks out from bridge window and points at men working on the deck.
Newsreel "Speed plans for San Francisco security meeting" shows staff working speedily at the State Department Communications Center in Washington D.C., preparing for the upcoming United nations Security Council meeting in San Francisco. United states Secretary of state Edward Stettinius,British delegate Lord Halifax, Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, and Chinese Ambassador Wei Tao-ming in a meeting in Washington D.C. Assistant Secretary of State, Archibald MacLeish, explains the purpose of the new United Nations.
A film titled ' Management labor sign for post war unity' shows William Green,Phillip Murray and Eric Johnston sign a pact at labor-management conference in Washington D.C.,United States for better labor management relations after World War II.
On December 8, 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addresses the Congress, calling for a declaration of War against Japan in World War II. He calls December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in infamy." Roosevelt notes the United States was at peace and in conversation with Japan's government and Emperor Hirohito, about maintaining peace in the Pacific. Japanese ambassador and statesmen are seen visiting State Department offices to meet with the U.S. Secretary of State. Photographers take pictures of the visiting Japanese statesmen. President Roosevelt asks Congress to affirm that a state of War exists between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
Americans express their views about United States entering into World War II after the Pearl Harbor attack. Anti-war isolationist and interventionist views are presented. Senator Gerald P. Nye advocates in favor of an arms embargo. Urging against American involvement in war, Senator Burton K. Wheeler cautions that war mongers and interventioners or intervention advocates control most of the avenues of propaganda. Wendell Willkie speaks advocating unity of purpose in America and importance of assisting the threatened democracies of Europe with war materiel and supplies. Next, Senator Joshua B. Lee of Oklahoma strongly urges support for lend-lease and "setting in motion an industrial blitzkrieg (of war materiel) that will make it possible for England to blast Hitlarism from the face of the earth." View of Congress meeting in the U.S. Capitol chamber. Anti-war college aged students protests against involvement in war and picket at the White House in Washington D.C.,United States. Adjacent to them are other protestors picketing against the peace advocates, with signs like "Americans are against subversive organizations picketing the White House" and "We Americans protest Communists picketing the White House. A women's organization advocating peace or protectionism or isolationism is seen wearing all black. They pull down black veils over their faces in a show of unity against war and the possible loss of American boys to war. An outdoor rally of a fascist organization meeting in America. Also scenes from a German American Bund meeting in 1939 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Speaker at the meeting is Fritz Julius Kuhn who watches as a protestor leaps on the stage and is subdued by guards. Scenes shown from various other protests in the United States during the same era, including labor strikes and lockouts, and a group holding a rally in favor of equal rights or civil rights, with a woman holding a sign "Did Lincoln Free the Slaves?"
A film titled 'Prime Minister Eshkol visits the U.S.' shows Prime Minister of Israel on a visit of United States. Prime Minister Eshkol and others pay a visit to Independence Hall (520 Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A man shows the Liberty Bell to Eshkol.
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