Senate Majority Leader Ernest W. McFarland administers an oath of office to Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, and other Senators in Washington DC in United States. Senator McFarland congratulates the Senators after the oath taking.
Aerial views from aircraft flying over The Greenbrier Resort buildings, golf course, and tennis courts in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in the United States. People seen below playing golf and tennis. (This footage was shot during reopening festivities for the resort in 1948, after it had been closed and used as a government medical facility in World War 2.)
Shows United States Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy in a meeting with officers at his office at the embassy in London in United Kingdom. Several takes are shown as parts of the meeting are being recorded for media. Lieutenant Colonel Raymond Lee, Captain Russell Wilson, Colonel Martin Scanlon and Commander William Harrill attending the meeting. Kennedy asks for reports on Army, Navy and Air Force from the Officers.
Film begins showing Soviet industrial complex with many smoke stacks emitting dark fumes. A banner is raised in front of a statue of Joseph Stalin. Soviet workers turn wheel and use wrench to install a large shaft into a machine in a factory. A large number of Soviet people descend stairs from an electric distribution network at a hydroelectric dam. Soviet head of state Mikhail Kalinin is among the persons seen in the group. Spectators stand on a platform above the dam where a large sign is displayed. View of the dam with gates open and water pouring through to the lower level of the river. Scene shifts to military parade on Red Square in Moscow. during World War 2. A formation of trucks carrying anti-aircraft guns drive along the street. Soviet T-34 tanks are also in the parade. Joseph Stalin waves from a balcony on the Kremlin as the parade passes. Soviet workers also join the parade, carrying banners and marching in a dozen parallel columns along Red Square. They exit in columns around both sides of Saint Basil's Cathedral. Soviet heavy artillery batteries fire at night creating great flashes of light. A shell strike destroys a building. Soviet troops fighting in close quarters among debris in a Russian city. Dead German soldiers lying in debris on a city street. Some are surrounded by weapons and belts of ammunition. A Soviet soldier removes a swastika from the top of a steel bridge. Soviet citizens walk about the ruins of a city during a lull in combat. A child emerges from an underground bunker. Russian sailors walk together along a street. Soviet people gather at an outdoor market, where they purchase foods.
Cargo being unloaded from ships. Military trucks move over a bridge. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Premier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt of United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain at Tehran Conference in Iran.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations at work on Mutual Security appropriations. Members seen include Senators Margaret Chase Smith,John L. McClellan and Mike Mansfield..The Committee welcomes Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to answer Committee questions.
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