Distinguished visitors to Washington DC, United States during World War II. President-elect of Cuba Dr. Grau San Martin deplanes in Washington DC and is greeted by officials. U.S. troops lined up. Martin is greeted by U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. China's Ambassador to Great Britain Dr. Wellington Koo deplanes and is met by U.S. under secretary of state Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's 175th press conference in Washington DC, United States. One of the pressmen asks the President that a note delivered to the Cuban Government had a discussion on the menace of communism. He asked the President as to why it was included in the note. The President says that he thinks Communism to be a very obvious subject to bring up whenever there is a troubled area where it might take hold. Everybody knows that the Communists like to fish in troubled waters and there are certainly troubled waters in Cuba. He says that he thinks it wouldn't have been right if anything had not been mentioned to call attention to the seriousness of the Communist menace.
Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. A sign reads 'Shooter'. Seattle fair closes. A poster regarding the sale of elephants. A girl walks with a baby elephant. U.S. President John F. Kennedy resumes pre-election touring. He boards an aircraft. President Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko talk to each other. President Kennedy in the back of a limousine with advisors. Reconnaissance photographs showing Russian Beagle bombers and missiles in Cuba. A map depicts the range of Russian missiles.
Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. United Nations building in New York. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson asks Soviet representative to the UN Valerian Zorin if his country was installing missiles in Cuba. Following Zorin's refusal to answer the abrupt question, Stevenson retorts, 'I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over'.
Miguel Mariano Gomez visits U.S. President-elect of Cuba, Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias receives welcome from United States Secretary of States, Cordell Hull as he arrives in nation's capital on a good will tour. Large crowd of civilians standing to welcome Miguel Mariano Gomez.
A chalkboard sketch showing anticipated course of a hurricane moving across Western part of Cuba and thence across the tip of Florida and into the Atlantic ocean. Animated schematic diagram shows colliding air masses generating counterclockwise rotation of air forming a low pressure condition-- the birth of a Hurricane.