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- Title Card: [opening title card] This is a glimpse into the very heart of America - a record of what American men, women and children did in true friendship to give hope and strength to the famine-driven peoples of Europe. No pleas, no urging, no promptings rallied these people to meet the cry of need. United by the common bond of human sympathy they responded with a mighty volume of food and a priceless cargo of good will. This is in thanks to the hundreds and thousands and millions who joined to make possible the Friendship Train - to the Association of American Railroads, to the steamship lines, to labor and management, to agriculture, to the press, radio, motion picture industry and all others - to all who gave to the free people of France, whose children gave us our Statue of Liberty, and to the free people of Italy, whose Columbus found our shores.
- Title Card: [signed] Harry M. Warner, National Chairman, American Friendship Food Train Committee.
- Narrator: [on food barges circling Statue of Liberty] The transcontinental journey of America's gift of freedom for Europe ends fittingly below the symbol that means liberty to all the world.
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- Narrator: The real welcome in Italy is an unofficial one, just as the impetus behind the train in America was unofficial, from the hearts of the people. These two thousand orphans are typical of the needy Italians who will share this New Year's gift from friends in America.
- Narrator: In each community, every citizen gets a chance to make his own contribution as the train from the heart of America, with the heart of America, hurries toward friends in Europe.
- Narrator: Western Europe, cold and hungry, faces an economic, political and human crisis. It is two and a half years since V-E Day, yet the people of France, the people of Italy, and the people of all Western Europe still stand in line for scanty rations. This fall's harvest has been a record low, following the disastrous spring floods and the scorching summer drought. America's official answer to this suffering is the Marshall Plan. But, beginning in Hollywood, another answer from the hearts of Americans who want to help directly and personally is expressed in the Friendship Train.