Shows registration of a treaty at the League of Nations 1st Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Protocol to the treaty is being signed by the representatives of Siam, Japan, Portugal, New Zealand and Uruguay. Sir James Eric Drummond, the Secretary General, at his desk in his office.
Shows Geneva, Switzerland after World War I, street scenes. League of Nations Assembly and Council in session.
A gathering of people. Mexican woman giving her chain. A woman opening her ear jewelry. Children on counters. Heaps of silver coins and jewelry. Silver utensils and vases seen. People donating money and goods to raise money.
Mexican peasants on top of a Mexican train. Men in hats walk on railway track next to the train. During the US' Mexican punitive campaign seeking Pancho Villa.
During the timeframe of the Dies Committee hearings, under Representative Martin Dies, regarding the suppression of the American Communist Party. A U.S. newspaper headline: "Trotsky Seeks to Come Here for 'Fair Trial'. Friends of exiled Red back move to have his side of alleged plot known." (exiled from Soviet Union.) View of Russian-Ukrainian political leader Leon Trotsky reading aloud the text of a pamphlet. Bricked wall in the background.
Mexican Rurales unit demonstrates a mounted charge on a field. They charge toward the camera and then away from the camera. (Edison Company, 1898)