Americans express their views about United States entering into World War II after the Pearl Harbor attack. Anti-war isolationist and interventionist views are presented. Senator Gerald P. Nye advocates in favor of an arms embargo. Urging against American involvement in war, Senator Burton K. Wheeler cautions that war mongers and interventioners or intervention advocates control most of the avenues of propaganda. Wendell Willkie speaks advocating unity of purpose in America and importance of assisting the threatened democracies of Europe with war materiel and supplies. Next, Senator Joshua B. Lee of Oklahoma strongly urges support for lend-lease and "setting in motion an industrial blitzkrieg (of war materiel) that will make it possible for England to blast Hitlarism from the face of the earth." View of Congress meeting in the U.S. Capitol chamber. Anti-war college aged students protests against involvement in war and picket at the White House in Washington D.C.,United States. Adjacent to them are other protestors picketing against the peace advocates, with signs like "Americans are against subversive organizations picketing the White House" and "We Americans protest Communists picketing the White House. A women's organization advocating peace or protectionism or isolationism is seen wearing all black. They pull down black veils over their faces in a show of unity against war and the possible loss of American boys to war. An outdoor rally of a fascist organization meeting in America. Also scenes from a German American Bund meeting in 1939 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Speaker at the meeting is Fritz Julius Kuhn who watches as a protestor leaps on the stage and is subdued by guards. Scenes shown from various other protests in the United States during the same era, including labor strikes and lockouts, and a group holding a rally in favor of equal rights or civil rights, with a woman holding a sign "Did Lincoln Free the Slaves?"
A film titled 'Prime Minister Eshkol visits the U.S.' shows Prime Minister of Israel on a visit of United States. Prime Minister Eshkol and others pay a visit to Independence Hall (520 Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A man shows the Liberty Bell to Eshkol.
United States Capitol in Washington D.C.,United States. Prime Minister of Israel,Levi Eshkol and President Lyndon Johnson address the press and others. Eshkol places a wreath at a memorial. He also places a wreath at a grave.
Prime Minister of Israel Levi Eshkol and his wife arrive at the White House for a dinner during his visit to United States. President Lyndon Johnson welcomes him. Prime Minister Eshkol and his wife visit the United States National Archives in Washington D.C. and look at the document of Test Ban treaty. He then meets President Lyndon Johnson at the White House over tea.
Prime Minister of Israel Levi Eshkol at a meeting on board the USS SEQUOIA,Presidential yacht during his visit to United States. He converses to a statesman and also looks at some works of art. Prime Minister Eshkol and the statesman at a ceremony with White House in background. A helicopter flies towards Washington monument.
Prime Minister of Israel Levi Eshkol and his wife on board a plane in United States. He visits NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) where he acquaints himself with space exploration. He also looks through a lens.
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