Host Frank Knight speaks in a television program Longines Chronoscope. Max W Thornburg, Petroleum Adviser, Department of State, interviewed by Henry Hazlitt and William Bradford Huie. Thornburg talks about his experience in the Middle East oil industry and credentials as Petroleum Adviser, causes of the oil nationalization crisis in Iran and British interference in Iranian politics. Further he speaks about failure of effective Anglo-Iranian oil policy, and lack of U.S. corporate initiatives in developing realistic oil agreements in the Middle East.
A computer-generated presentation about UFOs. Credits for the presentation. Various graphics and images flash on the screen.
Senator Homer Truett Bone gives speech and warns United States against war entanglements. He says that Benito Mussolini would again push his country into war and United States must stay safely away from it on the other side of Atlantic Ocean.
United States President Harry S. Truman addresses the Joint Session of Congress in Washington, unveiling what became known as the Truman Doctrine. He urges the Joint Session of Congress to take steps to halt communism by providing financial aid to Turkey and Greece (during Greek Civil War).
United States Coast Guard C-3 Cargo Passenger Vessel African Comet at Ingalls Shipbuilding port. (Ship later renamed the USS Arthur Middleton, AP-55, APA-25). Sailors on deck. Workers working at the vessel. Wooden planks being lifted at the dry dock after launch.
U.S. Coast Guard Cargo Passenger vessel C-3 African Comet leaving port of Ingalls shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Later the African Comet was renamed the USS Arthur Middleton (AP-55, APA-25) and carried a joint crew of U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard. Miss Mary Maud Farrell the sponsor, dressed in white. Dignitaries and crowd gather for launch. Sailors on deck. Film camera equipment on deck. Two other boats seen with African Comet.
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