A sailor monitors instruments and makes adjustments at main control panel in engine room of U.S. Navy Destroyer Escort, USS Charles E. Brannon (DE-446), in Seattle,Washington. Above decks, a sailor lookout peers through a pair of binoculars. Back in the engine room, the ship's power indicator shifts from "stop," to 1/3 backing power and then back to "stop," again.
Scenes from Magnolia and Queen Anne Hill in Seattle,Washington. Space Needle in the distance. The harbor on the right. Shift of scene to a closer view of the Space Needle.
Crewmen load hedgehogs on deck of United States Navy Destroyer Escort Charles E. Brannon (DE-446) in Seattle, Washington. Men pass hedgehogs to a loader. Hedgehogs loaded onto a launcher. An officer looks out from bridge window and points at men working on the deck.
Newsreel "Speed plans for San Francisco security meeting" shows staff working speedily at the State Department Communications Center in Washington D.C., preparing for the upcoming United nations Security Council meeting in San Francisco. United states Secretary of state Edward Stettinius,British delegate Lord Halifax, Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, and Chinese Ambassador Wei Tao-ming in a meeting in Washington D.C. Assistant Secretary of State, Archibald MacLeish, explains the purpose of the new United Nations.
A film titled ' Management labor sign for post war unity' shows William Green,Phillip Murray and Eric Johnston sign a pact at labor-management conference in Washington D.C.,United States for better labor management relations after World War II.
On December 8, 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addresses the Congress, calling for a declaration of War against Japan in World War II. He calls December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in infamy." Roosevelt notes the United States was at peace and in conversation with Japan's government and Emperor Hirohito, about maintaining peace in the Pacific. Japanese ambassador and statesmen are seen visiting State Department offices to meet with the U.S. Secretary of State. Photographers take pictures of the visiting Japanese statesmen. President Roosevelt asks Congress to affirm that a state of War exists between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
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