Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American entry into World War II and, according to the narration, shows "how, through their disunity, democracies were led, some to destruction and others to the verge of destruction."]
Cast
Lowell Thomas
Narrator (voice)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self
Neville Chamberlain
Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle
Self (archive footage)
Francisco Franco
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
David Lloyd George
Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
Self (archive footage)
Woodrow Wilson
Self (archive footage)
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