
POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY: Presents various aspects of the political, economic, military, and cultural interests of the U.S. abroad, showing some of the ways in which the foreign service protects and advances these interests in Ecuador. Shows views of the city jail in Quito where an imprisoned American is in need of help, of docks at Guayaquil where the American Attache works among laborers and officials of the banana loaders trade union, and of the Presidential palace where U.S. Ambassador Maurice Burnbaum discusses the Alliance for Progress with the ruler of Ecuador.

Alexander Scourby

Ralph Camargo

Maurice Burnbaum

James F. McKiernan

Daniel Clare III

Harry Lofton

Martin Forrester

Jim Shea

Robert E. White

Earl Lubensky