Visit of American Army General John L DeWitt to Mexico during World War II. Mexican General Juan Felipe Islaz, General DeWitt and other military officials review a guard of honor at Agua Calliente. Military musician band plays. Honor guard lowers their rifles as the Generals and reviewing party departs. Mexican General Lazaro Cardenas talks with General DeWitt and the generals walk by the honor guard troops. General Cardenas talks with General DeWitt and removes his cap while talking. The two generals and other officers pose for a photograph. Press photographers take photos.
Friends and relatives of U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner inaugurate a 'Garner for President' boom at his birthplace in Detroit, Texas. A crowd of people gather outside his birth place, an old house. Friends and relatives cheer for Garner. A man and a girl child display placards and banners written 'Garner for President'.
American representative O. John Rogge disproves of the proceedings and defends American policies at the Pro Soviet World Peace Congress in Warsaw,Poland. Mexican speaker Vincento Lombardo Torlendo denounces 'Yankee imperialism'. Dean of Cantabury and Russian writer Ilya Ehrenberg also addresses the Congress followed by a Polish representative. Writer Johannes Becher verbalizes the German desire for peace.
Workers place torches over the Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy. Wide and close up views of workers climbing with ropes around their waists on the dome roof of Saint Peter's Basilica, carrying large baskets, and setting the torches in place. High view of Rome and Vatican City as seen from atop Saint Peter's Basilica. Night view as twenty five thousand flaming torches light up the Basilica to celebrate the occasion of Sir Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher becoming the First English Saints to be canonized in the Catholic faith since reformation.
Newsreel titled 'Capitol hails Yank air aces' shows United States Army Air Force Captain Don Gentile and Captain John Godfrey being welcomed by family members as they return for rest from World War II. The two flying ace destroyers of Nazi German planes are seen on steps of Pentagon with family members.
Members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Arrairs look at a map and discuss the Korean Mutual Defense Treaty with Secretary od State John Foster Dulles. He looks at the map and discusses the matter with Committee Chairman Andrew Wiley and Senator Walter Frankoin George. Other Committee members seen include Senators J. William Fulbright and Mike Mansfield. Dulles later appears with the full Committee.
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