Sixteenth Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva,Switzerland. Issue of invasion of Ethiopia by Italy. Assembly President Van Zeeland (Belgium), Massey (Canada), and Bruce (Australia) speak on possibility of withdrawal of sanctions against Italy. De Graef (Netherlands) & De Velies (Hungary) speak. Sebahbodi (Iran) says his nation cannot participate in motions which will abrogate the rights of nations.
A loading operation of relief supplies, army personnel and equipment in a C-130A Hercules of the 322nd Air Division at Ramstein Air Force Base (and NATO Command Base) in Kaiserslautern, Germany for the Iran disaster. A truck is moved inside the plane through a ramp. Men work on the propellers and the engine of the plane. 7th Army personnel near the plane. Medical boxes are loaded inside the plane. Army men load crates. The load master checks a list. The side of the plane reads '322nd Air Division'. Army men load baggages inside the plane.
A loading operation of relief supplies, army personnel and equipment in a C-130A Hercules of the 322nd Air Division at Ramstein Air Force Base and NATO Command Base in Kaiserslautern, Germany for the Iran disaster. The C-130A Hercules is stationed at the air base. The side of the plane reads '322nd Air Division'. Men work on the plane. Crew men carry baggage and supplies inside the plane. They stand near the plane. The C-130 A taxis and takes off.
King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia during a state visit in Washington DC, United States. View of Pentagon River Entrance, from Columbia Island, across the water. Honor guard at Pentagon. King Saud arrives at the Pentagon. United States Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson and Admiral Arthur W. Radford greet the king. View of the White House. King Saud and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower discuss problems of mutual concern and defense against aggression. Cars parked outside the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (1010 Butternut St NW, Washington, DC 20012, United States). King Saud with his son, Prince Mashhoor Ibn Saud (Mashhoor bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud) in the hospital. The king hosts a party in honor of President Eisenhower. King Saud talks to U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon. Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the US, shakes hands with the King. Under Secretary of State, Lloyd Henderson, meets the King. King Saud talks to President Eisenhower. Sailors at the United States Naval Academy (121 Blake Rd, Annapolis, MD 21402, United States) salute the Arab ruler by firing guns. His Majesty inspects a U.S. Marine Corps guard of honor. The King is escorted by the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, Rear Admiral William R. Smedberg, III, who presents him a plaque, as memento of his visit. The King watches a college basketball game between the US Navy Academy team and Duke University. College athletes compete in basketball game. Spectators seated in an indoor stadium. The Arab ruler leaves the academy after the match. He gets in a car. He visits the hospital to meet his son. Little Prince Mashhoor salutes the people of America. King Saud waves at the people. The Arab King and the Prince leave the hospital and return to Blair House where visitors continue to arrive, including, His Excellency, Charles Malik of Lebanon; Greek Ambassador George V. Melas; and Ambassador Nazrollah Entezam of Iran. His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Abd al-Ilah of Iraq, seen seated with King Saud. Exterior of Saudi Arabian Embassy. A children's party inside the Embassy attended by children from the Washington diplomatic corps and "hosted" by Prince Mashhoor Ibn Saud who receives a bicycle. King Saud and President Eisenhower at the White House. The King departs Washington airport on the Columbine II, Presidential C-121 aircraft.
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.
Japanese troops parade for Emperor Hirohito, mounted upon a white horse. Italian troops goosestep and German troops goosestep on parade. View of an Austrian town with snow-covered Alps mountains in background as German troops enter Austria on March 13, 1938 during the Anschluss. Local citizens welcome them, displaying swastika flags and giving Nazi straight arm salutes. Troops, military vehicles, tanks, motorcycles, and horse-drawn artillery comprise the German invading force. Shifts to Spain, where war torn buildings reflect effects of German and Italian intervention during the Spanish Civil War. A donkey standing near field artillery piece. Artillery being fired from an urban park in Spain. Artilleryman using a range finder. German gun crew with heavy artillery piece. Soldiers wearing Adrian steel helmets, firing a two-wheeled water-cooled machine gun. Spanish carrying wounded on stretcher. Spanish civilians inadvertently slain during civil war conflict. Starving dog walking in street. Huge poster of Francisco Franco and view of him on reviewing stand saluting marching Nationalist troops. Repeat of Hirohito reviewing troops and Italian and German troops goosestep. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini stand together in open car heading to Fuhrerbau in Munich, Germany, for signing of Agreement between Germany, Italy, Britain, and France in 1938. Neville Chamberlain, and Edouard Daladier riding in car to Fuhrerbau. Views of the principals signing the accords. First is Adolf Hitler, followed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Edouard Daladier. After the signing, the principals, plus Hermann Goering, mingle and converse. Change of scene to nighttime in Rome, Italy, where Benito Mussolini addresses a huge throng gathered near the Victor Emmanuel Memorial to cheer him after his return from Munich. Next, German troops are seen entering Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) greeted by joyous ethnic German inhabitants. Banners are stretched across a street. One gives thanks to the Fuhrer. Several scenes of cheering population. A woman strews flowers in a roadway. Hitler arrives, standing in an open car, and is met with cheers of adulation. A military brass band plays from the open beds of two moving army trucks. Signpost points to Prag (Prague), Eger (Cheb), Joachimstal (Jáchymov), and Komotau (Chomutov) after German annexation. Scene shifts to Prague, where German troops are seen occupying the city. High ranking German officers in a car are seen coming through the gateway from the Court d´honneur of the Prague Castle into the Hradčany Square. The next sequence shows an Italian Freccia-Class destroyer in the Albanian Port of Durrës. An Italian L3/35 Tankette is driven off a large cargo ship. Italian troops on bicycles ride in a city street. A German 88mm antiaircraft (flak) gun is shown, mounted at a fort overlooking a river and city. Final scene shows Adolf Hitler addressing a meeting of the Bundestag in the Kroll Opera House (alternate meeting place after burning of the Reichstag). He reads, contemptuously from an April 14, 1939 letter sent to him by U.S. President Roosevelt, asking him to give "assurance that your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following independent nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iran." As Hitler reads through the litany of nations, the Bundestag erupts in laughter.