Shows efforts by the Friends Relief Committee (affiliation of Quakers or Religious Society of Friends, and sometimes known as the Friends War Victims' Relief Committee) in London to provide food to starving Russians during the period of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Men carry boxes of food on carts at a dock. Food supplies are loaded on a ship. Officials stand outside a building and speak to a crowd. An official speaks. The officers stand beside the building. Ship yard workers arrange the food supplies. Sign seen on stack of food boxes beside the docks : "Friends Relief Committee. Head Office 27 Chancery Lane, London WC2. One Of Our Regular Shipments. Over 400 Tons Of Food For Starving Russia." The cargo is loaded onto the ship by crane and men.
People gather at the meeting of Women's National Republican Club in New York. Senator Robert A Taft addresses the meeting and talks about the New Deal Administration for its handling of foreign policy. Prominent GOP contender, Senator Taft says Truman policy has given Russia an advantage over United States.
Soviet prisoners of war march along the street of a town in the Ukraine during the short war between Poland and Soviet Russia following World War 1. Trees in the background. Two Polish officers are seen, outside a hut, giving instructions to two prisoners, who are then led away by an armed guard. An area filled with potatoes, on the ground. Prisoners take some of the potatoes away in cartons. Prisoners are seen eating bread.
Film opens with views of goosestepping German, Italian, and Japanese soldiers during parade reviews in their respective countries. Emperor Hirohito, on a white horse. American battleships burning in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur decorating a soldier in Manila, Philippines. Air raid sirens sounding in Manila and residents hurrying to take cover. Heavy black smoke rising from a bombed site and emergency vehicles responding and rushing to several bombed and burning locations. A burning rickshaw amidst other bombing rubble and bodies of victims. U.S. Army General MacArthur greeted by Australian officials at his headquarters in Brisbane, Australia. Sign reads: Headquarters UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES in Australia. American flag flying on tall flagpole. View from ship underway in supply convoy. A battleship seen on horizon and a destroyer passing the camera ship. U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the "Lend Lease Act" of 1941. A U.S. industrial plant with four tall stacks emitting smoke. A steam locomotive belching steam. A locomotive pulling an open car and some tank cars. New 1941 Plymouth automobiles coming off a production line. A new M3 Medium Tank in a U.S. factory. View of Liberty Ships, including the "Zebulon Pike" and the "Henry Knox" under construction at the California Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Terminal Island, California. U.S. Navy Destroyers constructed at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey. One is being launched, next to DD-446 (the USS Radford). A formation of U.S. Navy aircraft including Curtiss SBC Helldiver scout bombers and Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers. A tight formation of U.S. Army Douglas B-18 Bolo medium bombers in flight. A formation of U.S. Army Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft in flight. Closeup of a U.S. Army Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight. Several huge gun barrels for guns under construction at a U.S. war plant. Large artillery shells lined up in a manufacturing plant. U.S. Army M3 Medium tanks under construction at a factory. Steam and smoke rising from a U.S. industrial plant. Aerial view of open pit iron mine. Sparks shooting up inside a steel plant. A virtual "forest" of oil well derricks in the Western U.S. drilling for oil. Coal being transported by railway. View from stern of a warship in a convoy. An Atlanta-class light cruiser leading three destroyers at sea. Transport ships in convoys to places like Australia, Britain, and the Middle East. Troops on a pier near a large transport ship. A stack of wartime supplies on a pier next to a ship destined for Russia. Glimpse of wake from a U.S. warship having triple guns astern. Silhouette of a U.S. Navy Enterprise-class Aircraft carrier, with an aircraft taking off from her deck. The aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga. U.S. Army soldiers marching on parade, followed by numerous jeeps with machine guns mounted in their rears. Young men being drafted into the U.S. military. A draft lottery being conducted. New recruits doing calisthenics. Trucks pulling artillery pieces. B-18 Bolo bombers flying over U.S. tanks. Closeup of M3 tank. Cavalry fording a stream. Soldiers on motorcycles. Troops crossing a pontoon bridge. A loaded troop ship. A troop transport at Newfoundland. Sentry in Trinidad. Troops encamped in Bermuda. Troop transport ship docked in Greenland. Troops disembarking in Iceland. Formations of Curtis P-36 Hawk aircraft. Douglas DC-2 aircraft factory. P-36s with engines running. M3 tank suspended on factory crane. Exterior of Palácio Tiradentes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 15, 1942. U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles ascending the steps during Rio Conference of 1942. Officials of Pan American nations meeting there to declare their support for the Allies against the Axis nations. Sumner Welles speaking and declaring, "At this time the issue is clearly drawn. There can be no peace until hitlerism and its monstrous parasites are utterly obliterated." Scenes changes to montage of views of Allied troops including Dutch, Belgian, Yugoslav, Greek, Czech, Filipino, Polish, Norwegian, Free French, Australian, New Zealand, South African and Canadian soldiers. British warships. British Hawker Tempest aircraft. British commandos. Russian troops on parade. Chinese troops on the Great Wall of China.
Development of New Towns in Siberia. Scenes of the new town of Angarsk, in Irutsk Oblast, Eastern Siberia, Russia. A forest region. Buildings under construction. Cranes being used for construction. A man works on controls. People walk on streets in the background. Roads being constructed. A tram on tracks. People get off the tram. Cars and people on the street. Women stand in a balcony and talk. A residential area. Children play with mud. They make different things out of clay. A building with a hall inside the building. Chandelier hangs from the roof. Women walk on the pathway. People on streets. Buildings in the background.
The Altai mountains in Central Asia (at convergence of Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan). Natives of the region in their tents. A woman milks a cow and grinds grain with a stone. Interior of a native tent. Activity in a tent village. The nomadic people move with all their belongings, family and animals to a new region. Children on sheep as they move along with a group. Skeleton structure of tents abandoned by natives.
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