Prime Minister Winston Churchill and United States Ambassador Winant in London, United Kingdom. They sign the Epochal treaty leasing Air and Naval bases to the United States in return for the fifty Destroyers. Men stand and watch the dignitaries signing the treaty.
Activities at Brize-Norton Air Force Base in the United Kingdom. A briefing room. Crew members of a United States Air Force B-47 Startojet attend a briefing session. Colonel Kunkle uses a pointer to point out an aerial route for the unit. He passes the stick to the next officer. Major Hess attaches maps to a wall map and then describes the mission to a bomb group. A close up of an officer during the briefing session. The crew members take notes. They come out of the briefing room. Men come out from 305th Bomb Wing Headquarters building. A sign reads 'United States Air Force 305th Bomb Wing, Medium'. U.S. Air Force Captain Grant with a heavy and bushy mustache conducts a briefing session. The captain talks and twirls the ends of his mustaches. A wall map and Brize-Norton pin pointed upon the map. A pointer traces the aerial route which the group would follow to Sidi Slimane AFB in Morocco which is also pin pointed upon the map.
Representative of United Kingdom answers a question by a Soviet representative at United Nations Security Council meeting in New York,United States. He states that the aim of the Security Council is solemn judgment.
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph Kennedy returns from London, United Kingdom. A Boeing 314 or Clipper flying boat at the New York pier. The Ambassador gets off amidst security personnel and other officials. He is greeted by numerous officials and his family members. He poses with his family for the press.
Question marks on screen. Reconstruction of the buildings and denazification in Berlin, Germany after World War II. A factory in Germany. A farmer leads a horse to plow a field. Men at a farm cultivate crops. The wreckage of the IG Farben plant. Men speaking to Hermann Göring. The trial of Norwegian leader and Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling. The rail goes on for the criminal. People burn Nazi books and pamphlets in a bonfire. A man burns a pamphlet with a photo of Adolf Hitler. The people stand around the burning books. German civilians read a poster on a wall. General Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Marshal Georgy Zhukov of the Soviet Union, and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery of the United Kingdom sign a joint agreement. The three of them stand together. The United States Capitol building. Chongqing National Government building in No. 232 Renmin Road, Chongqing (Chungking), China. The Big Ben in London, United Kingdom. Aerial view of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. General Francisco Franco saluting to marching soldiers in Spain. The delegates including United States President Harry S. Truman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin, and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated around a table during the Potsdam Conference in 1945. They discuss the problems. A close up view of Truman looking into some documents. Stalin smokes a cigarette. The delegates discuss problems. The funeral ceremony of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The soldiers fire guns. President Harry S. Truman attends the ceremony. Churchill salutes from a moving vehicle. Women voting in the United States. Truman gets off an aircraft. Delegates in the Potsdam conference. Newspaper headlines read Russian declares war on the Empire of Japan in 1945. The first atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima, Japan. The newspaper headlines about the war. Truman, Stalin and delegates at the Potsdam Conference. Soldiers advancing in the battlefield. A flag of the United States and people celebrate the victory. Newspaper headlines feature the surrender of Japan.
Lewis Douglas sworn in as Ambassador in Washington. Lewis Douglas confers with President of the United States Harry S Truman at White House. Lewis sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom by the State Department Chief of Protocol,Stanley Woodward. Acting Secretary of States Dean Gooderham Acheson congratulates Douglas and hands over credentials. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom William Averell Harriman congratulates Douglas.
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