Shows President Woodrow Wilson addressing crowd at his inauguration speech on March 4,1913 in Washington DC, at the United States Capitol building. Next scene shows Woodrow Wilson dressed in all white, speaking from a podium at Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1914. Several other officials are seated in the background during his speech. Final scene shows President Wilson's youngest daughter, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo.
Brief view of the Great Wall of China near Beijing. A stone bridge in the imperial Forbidden City (4 Jingshan Front St, Dongcheng, Beijing, China, 100886) in Beijing. Graphics full screen show dates "1913" , "1924", "1925", "1927" , "1931" and "1936." Montage covers Chinese civil war, Soviet invasion, Kuomintang fight with British forces, dispute in Hankow, and Manchurian outbreak. A hand flips a page on a document titled “The Report of the Commission of Enquiry of the League of Nations to the Sino-Japanese Dispute 1912”. Highlighted section reads, “Banditry has always existed in China and the administration has never been able to suppress it thoroughly...."
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, steps into a flag-and bunting-decorated open car. President-elect, Woodrow Wilson follows, waving his top hat, as he sits beside her. Next, outgoing President, William Howard Taft and First lady, Helen Herron Taft, enter the car and sit in front of the Wilsons. Short montage of buildings and houses. A Federal building in Washington, DC. What appears to be a hotel, with arabic writing on it. A neighborhood street. A politician smoking a cigar. A huge cast cement flower pot seen on lawn of the house behind him.
High ranking military officials review a parade of military units from in front of the Palace of Justice (Palazzo di Giustizia, Piazza Cavour, 00193 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy, during World War I. Potted plants decorate the Palace entrance. King Peter I and King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, step into a royal carriage. The two converse briefly while they wait for the footmen to take their places in the back of the carriage. The carriage then proceeds with King Peter I and King Victor Emmanuel III. Scene shifts to front of the Palace, again, where many civilian dignitaries have gathered to watch the military parade.
World War I Allies Conference meeting in Paris. Mr Baron Sonnino and Signor Salandra, representatives of Italy arrive in Paris. Photographers stand with a camera. Crowd waves to them. Mr Aristide Briand the French Prime Minister, General Joffre and Admiral Lagaze. Mr Briand comes out of a building and sits in a car. Dignitaries come out of the building. General Cadorna Italian Commander in Chief walks on the sideway. Mr M Denny Cochin gets off a car. M Pashitch, the Serbian Prime Minister and Lord Bertie, the British ambassador to France come out of a Building. Lord Kitchener comes out of building and stands. Crowd on the street.
Allied troops in Serbia during World War I. Soldier seated in an area. Sandbags stacked on a field. Some of the soldiers load and fire artillery. Captured Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war, some standing and some seated, are seen eating food while under guard.