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Isolationist versus interventionist sentiments of people in the United States regarding America entering World War 2

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?"

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038552
President Chaim Weizmann of Israel meets President Harry S. Truman in Washington D.C.,United States

President Chaim Weizmann of Israel meets President Harry S. Truman in Washington D.C.,United States. He presents a 'Torah' or a sacred scroll to Truman. While speaking to the press he hopes of lifting arms embargo and then leaves for Israel in a ship from New York.

Date: 1948, May 27
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038584
Various ships being exhibited on Sea Day in Moscow,Soviet Union

Various ships sail as people look at them at Sea Day celebrations in Moscow,Soviet Union. A new ship 'Pstrowski' being launched as it sails away.

Date: 1949, July
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675038605
Production process at Stalin automobile factory and generator plant lamp production company in Moscow,Soviet Union

A film titled ' The men and women behind the fourth five year plant' shows an engineer supervising the production process at Stalin automobile factory in Moscow,Soviet Union. Workers assemble cars at the plant. Generator plant lamp production company workers use new production method.

Date: 1949
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038611
A Russian pilot who rammed a German bomber, tells his family about it. Small children being tended for parents during World War II

Film opens showing a wounded Soviet army aviator lieutenant, at home on leave, surrounded by family members. He holds a microphone with his bandaged right hand. According to narrator, he is telling his sister and a girl he went to school with, about his recent experience. He was at 4 miles altitude intercepting a German bomber on its way to Moscow. He chased and fired at the bomber until he ran out of ammunition and the blast from his machine gun had burned his hand. So he accelerated and rammed the German aircraft, bringing it down. His mother is seen telling that she had heard the news, on the radio, of her son ramming a German airplane. She kisses her son. Change of scene shows small children in a play ground under the care of several women Next, children are seen seated at tables for a meal, as Girl Scouts attend them. Later, the children are tucked into bed for the night, and Two Girl Scouts make soft toys for them.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038623
Kharkov locomotive in soviet Union

Kharkov locomotive,a new type diesel locomotive constructed in Soviet Union. People get onto it.

Date: 1949, February
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Russian
Clip: 65675038628