Reports on Washington D.C. in wartime as the "center of the battle for liberty." Shows President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull receiving visiting heads of state, including Winston Churchill. Reports on the sudden increase in the city's population during wartime. Brief appearances and addresses by the following: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson, War Conservation Board Chairman Paul V. McNutt, General George C. Marshall, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox , Admiral Ernest Joseph King, Commissioner of Education Dr. J.W. Studebaker,California Congressman Thomas Rolph, and General James Doolittle. Concludes with an address by President Roosevelt to the 28 Allied nations.
"Intimate meetings with men who are shaping America's destiny-President Roosevelt, Admiral King, General Marshall, W.P.B. Chairman Nelson, and many other world-famous personalities."(War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 6.)]]> Castle Films]]> 1942]]> "Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, explains the ideals we are fighting for and the price we must pay for victory. A condensation of the now famous speech which he delivered before the Free World Association in New York City on May 8, 1942." (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 33)
Includes footage of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.]]> U.S. Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures]]> Paramount Pictures]]> Pine-Thomas Productions]]> 1942]]>