After end of World War I President Wilson goes to France to participate in treaty negotiations. While there he reviews American troops preparing to return to the United States. President Woodrow Wilson and General John Pershing on reviewing stand as American troops pass in review at General Pershing's Headquarters. President Wilson is seen wearing a fur coat.
The U.S. Secretary of War, John W Weeks, General Pershing and other officers at the Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia. Hangars in the background. General Mitchell explains the working of the bomber to Secretary of War, Weeks, and General Pershing. Inspecting party and General Mitchell stand near a bomber aircraft. General Mitchell talks to General Pershing, standing near wing of bomber. Inspecting party gets into an opened touring sedan and leave.
The Tenth Inter American Conference in Carasas, Venezuela. Guetamalan Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello speaks into a microphone and warns against interference in internal affairs. People at the conference listen. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles addresses the conference and urges to put a united front to prevent Communist infiltration.
The Papal conclave of 1963. Aerial view of the Vatican City. Preparation for the conclave underway. A trailer towed by a truck enters a square. Furniture is unloaded from the trailer. A man carries a mattress. Vatican staff prepares the Sistine Chapel for the incoming Papal conclave. The Papal conclave takes place inside the Sistine Chapel. Frescoes by Michelangelo on the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Sistine Chapel is being carpeted. The traditional stove pipe in which the ballots would be burned. The College of Cardinals meets to elect the 262nd Pontiff, the successor to Pope John XXIII. The cardinals enter the Apostolic Palace for the Papal conclave. Tanzanian Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, the first modern native African cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, arrives for the Papal conclave. Cardinal Francis Spellman from New York. Cardinal Richard Cushing from Boston. Photographers click pictures.
U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. at work in the United States. The President seated at a desk in his executive office. Coolidge works. An official arrives and gives him a document. He signs the document.
An Allied athletic meet at Pershing Stadium in Joinville Le Pont, France. U.S. Army General John J. Pershing and other officers on a podium. General Pershing presents awards to various American athletes. American and French Army officers including General Paul A. Wolf being presented awards. Various participants and officers being awarded at the ceremony.
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