French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré resigns from his position as President of the Interallied Reparations Commission. Scene shifts to closup, on board a ship, of Reinhold Wulle, leader of a monarchist wing in the conservative German National Peoples Party (DNVP). Scene shifts again, to Berlin, Germany, where well-dressed citizens are gathered on a sidewalk. It shifts again, to German citizens at a newsstand holding many different newspapers, all reflecting unhappiness with restrictions and economic effects from the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, following World War I. A poster shows a facsimile of the Treaty with arrows pointing to Part 5, requiring demilitarization of the Rhineland. Scene shifts back to the well-dressed gathering, where a photographer stands on an iron fence railing as a car arrives and an official steps into the group waiting for him. Next, a man is seen seated on the roof of a truck driving on Unter Den Linden, with Brandenburg Gate in background. He throws monarchist leaflets to bystanders. Men on bicycles accompany the truck. Leaflets are also seen being thrown from an automobile on a Berlin street. Six men distribute monarchist leaflets from a truck. Leaflets fill the air as traffic, including a tram, moves through main streets of Berlin. A contingent of Berlin police officers begins clearing crowds from sidewalks and streets. Mounted police clearing a square.
United States Senator from Idaho William Edgar Borah in the United States. Borah poses and removes his hat. (Note: Senator Borah was famous for his opposition to the Treaty of Versailles and formation of the League of Nations. His opposition was instrumental in the U.S. rejection of the League.)
A huge crowd mills around as people gather to watch a solemn funeral procession in a major European city after World War 1. Spectators line the sidewalks. Some persons in the procession carry dark flags. The focus of the procession, along a major thorofare, is what appears to be a giant coffin float, draped in bicolor or tricolor bunting. The float has a flame in an open bowl, at each corner, and is escorted by hundreds of persons, who surround it, as it moves along the avenue. Three groups of persons carry flower arrangements at shoulder height, in in the midst of the crowded procession behind the float. The participants and float, move past a large colonnade building draped in white fabric and displaying a large flower wreath laid flat on a structure above its steps.
Post Russian Revolution events in Russia. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, silhouetted and speaking. Commander of the Red Army Leon Trotsky seated at a table. Workers and Peasants Inspection Group is formed and its chief is Joseph Stalin. Stalin, walking with Molotov, and others, on a street. Stalin's supporters Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. People at a rail road station. Harvesting grain with machinery. Workers engaged in some private enterprises. Canned food arriving from the United States. American Relief Administration workers handling food items. Scenes of American Relief Administration feeding Russians. Children in Russia eating food. Picture of Herbert Hoover, head ot the American Relief Administration, seen onboard a ship in a harbor. March 14, 1923, newspaper headline reads 'Lenin Suffers a stroke, Condition is Serious; Announcement Causes a Sensation in Moscow'.
A phosphate mine in the United States. African American men work with shovels and pick axes to dig by hand and fill rail road gondola cars. African American workers dig out phosphate with shovels and picks. Smoke rises in the background. A foreman in a long coat stands and watches over the workers. Railroad gondolas loaded with phosphate ore. The small railroad cars are moved by locomotive train engine to an elevated dumping area. Crates of ore ascend the rail track to the top dumping station and are emptied. They are then rolled back down empty, and diverted to a different track via a rail switch. A railroad gondola train leaves the depot area towing empty cars back to the mining area. Clip ends showing a large spinning industrial drum used in part of the phosphate processing.
A phosphate mine in the United States. Revolving drums. Piles of rock at the mine. A worker points towards phosphate rock on the ground. Two men leave the mine tunnel. A rock comes out on an endless belt and drops to the ground. A steam shovel picks it up and deposits it in a huge hopper. The rock placed on the surface.