Retired United States Army Major General Walter Campbell Short testifies before a Joint Congressional Committee investigating facts leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,December 7, 1941, and defends himself. Among the matters he mentions are the closely guarded secrets surrounding U.S. intelligence information concerning Japanese military and diplomatic communications (so-called "Magic"). At the end of his remarks, he gives thanks to the Committee for bringing out facts. Other officials seated around him listen to him. Some of those present applaud General Short, at the conclusion of his testimony. The officials stand after his testimony. (World War II period).
Red Army advances against German forces in Poland during the Vistula-Oder Offensive in World War 2. At the front Marshall Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov and Soviet officers look at a map. (Marshal Zhukov has cotton stuffed in his ears.) German ME-110 aircraft dive bomb Soviet positions. Soviet Ilyushin II-2 aircraft bomb German positions. Smoking terrain of battlefield. Soviet troops cross river in small boats. Soviets conduct an amphibious assault. There are explosions on the opposite shore. Russian infantry advances under German fire, cutting barbed wire and marking position of land mines. Soviet tanks and artillery fire. Marshalls Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovskiy look at a map. Shells explode and Soviet infantry advances past German antitank barricades. At the command post Marshall Georgy Zhukov looks at a map. Views of German defensive fortifications, including Barbed wire entanglements; concrete forts and bunkers, one with barbed wire on top and a periscope on a steel turret. German antitank barricades along the river.
News headlines in the New York Times. A scrolling news marquee at the building of New York Times: "Read The New York Times", "Stalin Blames Britain U.S. And France For Failure To Solve Berlin Dispute-- Charges West Follows Warmongering Policy But Discounts Possibility Of New World Conflict" and "Stalin Flays Former British Prime Minister Churchill As 'Chief Instigator of War' ". Pedestrians and motor traffic in foreground. A scrolling news marquee: " Stalin Blames Britain U.S. And European Revival", "Western Diplomat Describe Stalin's Attack On Allied Powers As Propaganda Statement" and "Britain U.S. And France Halt Heavy Flow Of Western Marks Out Of Berlin". Two men and a couple look at the marquee. Views of a man looking at the marquee.
The United States Capitol in Washington DC. President Hoover signs two pages of a document, with the help a staff person who shows him where to sign. Among the officials present for the signing, is Secretary of War, Patrick Jay Hurley, seen at the back of the gathering. After signing the documents, the President speaks briefly and steps away.
View of the delegates to the 1932 Republican National Convention at Chicago Stadium, in Chicago, Illinois. The delegates are arranged on the convention floor in groups, by State, each State delegation identified by a sign. Officials coming on stage. President Hoover appears. Former President Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge, on stage beside Vice President and Mrs. Charles Curtis. Both ladies hold large bouquets of flowers. War Hero, General of the Armies, John Pershing, is introduced and receives a standing ovation. President Herbert Hoover standing with General Pershing on stage.
U.S. President Herbert Hoover at the United States Capitol in Washington DC. View of the building. The President signs some documents. Cabinet members and legislators stand around President Hoover. Secretary of War, Patrick Jay Hurley, can be seen at the very back of the gathering. The President speaks and moves away.
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