Meeting of a committee in the United States. Officials seated inside a building. U.S. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley addressing the officials. He talks about the United States policy towards China during World War II. Discussion about the mutual aid pact with China. He states that the U.S. always want the unity and democracy of the Chinese people. He declares support for a democratic China under the national government of the Republic of China, and Chiang Kai-shek.
Meeting of a Committee in the United States. Officials seated inside the building. U.S. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley addressing the officials. He talks about harmonized relationship between the United States and China. He also speaks about the unity of the armies of the United States and China in World War II.
Joint Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack in the United States. Officials gather in the court room. Officials seated at their desk and Retired U.S. Army Major General Walter Short addresses them about the Pearl Harbor attack. He states that he approved the defensive plan for Hawaii with other officials. He talks about the 'Rainbow 5' by the U.S. Army and WPL-46 of the U.S. Navy. The war department audit was made under the 'Rainbow Plan'. The mutual agreement between the army and navy for the plan to be brought into effect. The Japanese action was unpredictable.
United States Naval reservists at the Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois, United States. The U.S. Navy band marching. The reservists marching on the street behind the band. The U.S. Navy sailors march holding rifles, boards, placards and flags. They are heading for deployment in World War 1.
Part of a documentary on the history of the Labor Department in the United States. Opening scene shows numerous children gathered around a large wooden picnic table outdoors, as a woman and two men serve them lunch, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, in the United States. The setting is a barnyard, with chickens walking about in the background. Scene shifts to many women working in an Emergency Employment Office of the U.S. Department of Labor. They are all engaged in various kinds of clerical activities. Next, men are seen receiving hot food at an outdoor "Soup Kitchen." People on a "bread line." A woman getting the last bit of food from an empty food kitchen pail. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seated at his desk, surrounded by interested persons, as he signs the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935, and appoints the Secretary of Labor as head of a committee to develop a Social Security Program which shall embrace and cover the hazards of old age, unemployment, the handicapped, and children. A rural family seen on their porch. Many unemployed men gathered on a building porch in a rural setting. Railroad cars and an industrial site can be seen in the background. Children gathered on an open porch. The U.S. Capitol building. Coal miners headed into a mine shaft, wearing helmets with lights and carrying their lunch pails. Workers on an automobile assembly line. Rural poor families near their makeshift houses. A woman airing out bedding outdoors. Men stoking a furnace. A large group of child laborers. A factory with multiple smoke stacks. Striking union members carrying signs on a picket line. Others carry signs identifying them as members of the International Seamen's Union. One of them carries a sign reading: "Radio is the only Hope. Insist on reliable radio protection." Other union members in an outdoor protest. A group of businessmen, ostensibly in peaceful negotiations, facilitated by the Department of Labor.
United States Army school retains former German soldiers captured during World War II at Fort Getty in the United States. A United States official teaches a group of German soldiers. Former Congressman Colonel Smith takes a class. They read a book titled 'History of the United States'. German prisoners of war are given certificates upon their graduation. A soldier holds the 'Certificate of Achievement' in hand.
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