Film 'Voice of the truth' dramatizes reactions of U.S. Army soldiers listening to Japanese propagandist Tokyo Rose report the news. The propaganda report makes an effort to convince troops that the people at home are not interested in soldiers. The United States troops smoke and relax while listening to music on radio below decks on troop transport ship. Soldier writes on a piece of paper. Another soldier checks rifle. Troops get on to landing crafts from ships and prepare to fight. A soldier questions the propaganda. (World War II period).
Mop up operation by British Allied forces in Florence, Italy, during World War 2. South African and New Zealand troops advance on tanks. Soldier looks through binoculars. Views of city of Florence including Florence Cathedral (Duomo). View of Ponte Vecchio bridge in the city, the only one spared by the German forces who destroyed all other bridges over the Arno River at Florence. Soldier fires from the hidden area. Explosions in the city. Soldiers patrol on streets of Florence. Civilians on streets, including some partisan civilian soldiers aiding in the elimination of German sniper positions.
New York Mayor visits coast Fair in San Francisco, California. Fiorella LaGuardia, attends the United States conference of Mayors at the Golden Gate Exposition grounds. He holds a rifle which he points at the camera, while seated on a horse carriage. He is taken for a ride in a horse-driven covered stagecoach by Mayor Rossi of San Francisco.
The background of World War II. United States citizens state isolationist and anti-war views. They give their views regarding the beginning of war in Europe, and their desire for the United States to stay out of the war. Board reads 'No foreign Entanglements'. View of idle and closed factories during the Great Depression. Ground level, track level view of a railroad train approaching. Elevated view of homeless and unemployed hobo men riding on top of a train car. President Franklin Roosevelt signs Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 assuring a minimum wage and maximum work week. View of factory workers arriving at a large factory or production plant for a work shift. Newspaper headlines read 'Social Security Laws Go into Effect'. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers seen hanging telephone lines, digging ditches, and building roads. Aerial view of new highways and clover leaf overpasses.
President John F Kennedy reveals Soviet Russian aircraft pullout at a news conference in United States soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis. President lifts the United States Naval blockade of Cuba after Nikita Khrushchev gives his pledge that Soviet bombers will be out of Cuba in 30 days. President Kennedy speaks over the microphone. Reporters take notes while photographers take pictures.
New luxury ocean liner 'Queen Mary' goes down to the sea in Glasgow, Scotland. Tugs and boats around the gigantic liner as it leaves the yards. Women look through binoculars. Black smoke emerges from the smoke stacks of the cruise ship. The captain of the ship poses with a dignitary aboard the ship. Tugs near the liner. People on rooftops watch the liner as it makes its journey down the Clyde to open waters.
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