Guns mounted at fort. People on hand-pulled rickshaws. Boats at shore. U.S. flag and seal of U.S. Consulate General. Shows an officer entering the office. Civilians in street somewhere in Middle East. Seal of Embassy of United States. Cars parked outside building. Various officers and women inside building. Capitol dome. Secretary of State office. Cordell Hull at desk. Hull going through documents and talking over phone. Battleships underway at sea. Newspaper headlines read 'Hull Says Nations Must Spur Trade To Achieve Peace'. Hull speaking to few men. Hull walks out of the building after collecting a newspaper.
Secretary of State office, Cordell Hull seated. Applicants take written and oral examinations for recruitment in Department of State. Door sign 'Appointments : Dept. of State'. Selected candidate sworn in before joining. Successful candidate at probationary service, signs documents. People awaiting their turns in Passport registration office. Foreign service officer listens to a man and checks his passport. Door sign of 'Foreign Service Officers Training School'. Candidates attend protocol classes. Young diplomats seated around table. Cordell Hull addressing. Name of U.S. officials on wall plaque. Officer talking to a foreign family in U.S. Consulate. Other officer talks to a man. Ship at sea. Diplomat talks to a Navy officer and plan the evacuation of U.S. citizens from Spain during Spanish Civil War. Refugees board ship. Cordell Hull talks to a diplomat.
Secretary of State Department, Cordell Hull at office with his staff. World map. Door sign 'Division of European Affairs. 'Officer with other men at work. Ambassador Hugh Wilson in Berlin and Ambassador William Phillips in Rome. British and French U.S. diplomats, Joseph P. Kennedy in London, England United Kingdom; and W.C. Bullitt at conference in Paris. Consul General George Wadsworth at American consulate in Jerusalem, Palestine; and J.C. Grew in Tokyo, Japan.
Exterior night time shot of U.S Capitol dome in late 1930s. Sign 'Division of Communications and Records' above a State Department office door. Officer at desk. Men working in office and typing. Door sign 'Secretary of Department of State'. Cordell Hull at desk. Hull speaking. He reads a statement urging peace and security rather than armed conflict in Europe. State Department workers typing out memos and interpreting coded dispatches. A close up of a page decoding a secret coded dispatch. Newspaper headlines indicate orders dispatched for American ambassador to return from Germany (shortly before outbreak of World War 2). Sign for 'Carlton Hotel' on the hotel building. Secretary Hull seated in his office as he studies reports. Pictures of Hull in various newspapers of different languages. Seal of the U.S. on an entrance of a U.S. Embassy. A door closing with sign "American Embassy" on it.
Opening slate reads: "Quebec Conference August 1943." The English battleship, Prince of Wales, is seen in fog off the Coast of Newfoundland, in August 1941. View of sailor on fore-deck of the British ship. View inside engine room of the ship where sailor manipulates her power. Closeup of engine crankshaft stopping as she drops anchor in Placentia Bay. View of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, greeting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the Prince of Wales. He proffers a letter to the President, from the King of England. View of Roosevelt and Churchill seated on deck with their respective military leaders standing behind them. Admiral Ernest King, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations converses with U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George Marshall, as they stand behind Churchill and Roosevelt. Wider camera view shows the larger military entourage accompanying the Prime Minister and the President. Glimpse of prisoners and enslaved workers taken by Nazi Germans in Europe. Glimpse of bombs falling from an airplane. Classic film views of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Bombs exploding along "Battleship Row." Heavy smoke rising from the bombed ships. The USS Arizona tilted heavily and burning. Camera pans along the path of destruction, as the voice of President Roosevelt is heard in the background, asking the Congress to declare that the Japanese attack created a state of War between the United States and the Japanese Empire. View of President Roosevelt speaking to the U.S. Congress. Seated behind him are Vice-President Henry Wallace and Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn. Glimpse of Congress members applauding. Change of scene shows President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting in Washington, DC, in December of 1941, during World War 2. Views of war preparations in the United States, including the building of new war production plants and facilities. A large steel ingot being forged into an artillery gun barrel. Machinist at work turning a gun barrel on a lathe in a munitions factory. Views of manufacturing plants in operation and steel being made. A railroad train carrying new Army trucks. Another meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. June, 1942. Standing behind them is President Roosevelt's special assistant, Harry Hopkins, a British naval officer, and an American navy Captain. American soldiers boarding a troop ship, and closeups of them as they enter the ship, looking out of portholes, and waving from the ship's deck. Glimpse of Washington Monument and its image in the reflecting pool in Washington DC. Closeup of a book entitled, "Time Table for Invasion." General George Marshall with several of his generals doing preliminary planning. Series of scenes involving senior military officers engaged in war planning. A convoy of warships is seen at sea during the Operation Torch Allied invasion of French North Africa during 8–16 November, 1942. Views of Allied Navy ship guns firing. Allied troops riding in landing craft, and advancing from beached craft on shore of Algiers. Aerial view of a flight of Douglas Dauntless bombers in formation. "Bombs away" view from Allied airplane dropping bombs. Allied troops firing camouflaged antiaircraft guns from sandy positions near shore. Enemy shells or bombs exploding nearby. Two U.S. Army soldiers holding a document in French entitled, "Message from the President of the United States.
Horse-drawn covered wagons and men on horseback pass through mountain region in the United States. Wagons and men pass on field.
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