Scenes during the meeting of Preparatory Commission for Disarmament Conference at the League of Nations building (Quai Wilson 47, 1201 Genève, Switzerland) in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates pose for the cameras outside the assembly hall. The posing delegates may include Johann Heinrich Graf von Bernstroff, Germany; Anthony Eden, Great Britain; Japanese Delegation; Ethiopian Delegation; Maharajah of Kapurthala, India; Turkish Delegation; Egyptian Delegation. Several women are seen joining the group as well.
Scenes after the meeting of Preparatory Commission for Disarmament Conference at the League of Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates leaving the assembly hall pose outside for cameras.. The posing delegates possibly include Von Bernstroff, Germany; Henri De Jouvenal and Aristide Briand, France; Sir Alexander George Cadogen and Robert Anthony Eden, Great Britain; Japanese Delegation; Ethiopian Delegation; Maharajah of Kapurthala, India; Turkish Delegation; Egyptian Delegation. Some delegates wear bowler hats as they pose for the cameras. One delegate wears a Fez.
A staff meeting of Journalists, including Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time building office in New York. They discuss President Roosevelt's intention to fortify the island of Guam as a means of dealing with the Japanese, and question position of the U.S. military chiefs on the issue.
Shows journalists, Harold Horan and Robert Sherrod at Time Magazine offices in New York. The journalists hold a meeting. Camera focuses on reporter who comments on the President's strategy in Guam vis-a-vis the Japanese.
A United States Navy New Mexico class battleship (believed to be the USS Idaho) is seen underway off Okinawa in World War 2. Heavy flak (antiaircraft gun fire) in the sky. Japanese Kamikaze (suicide dive bomber aircraft) in the skies under heavy flak fire. Kamikaze dives and strikes a battleship that appears to be the USS Tennessee (BB-43) throwing up a ball of flame. In the background is a smoking Destroyer, probably the USS Zellars (DD-777) which was already hit by one or two Kamikazes. The Zellars and Tennessee were a short distance ahead of the Idaho during the attack. The USS Zellars was dead in the water as the USS Idaho passed it.
American Destroyer underway off the Japanese coast. It approaches another ship from which the scenes are recorded. Crews set up lines and transfer a canvas mail bag to the destroyer. Scenes on the mail ship of a sailor writing in a journal, officers conversing, and a sailor napping on deck.
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