Representatives of the 15 nations comprising NATO are seen in a lobby setting. One woman makes an inquiry at a Security desk. Another distributes a publication into boxes, where each receives it in a different translation. Glimpse of a representatives seated on a couch being interviewed and televised. Scene inside a photo lab where new prints are hung to dry. A man reviewing film footage of the NATO Secretary General Dirk Stikker. Next, he is seen at his desk, reviewing documents. (Narrator notes his dual roles as Head of the International staff and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council.) He hands a document to a woman and leaves his office. Change of scene shows two farmers with machinery in a wheat field having their lunch with a young boy. A formation of six British de Havilland Sea Vixen twin boom jet fighter planes passes overhead.
The Gelerie des Glaces in the castle of Versailles during the Paris Peace Conference. The members of delegations of various participating nations while the peace conference undergoing.
Depicts the signing of Franco-Nazi Peace Pact (Franco-German Declaration) in Paris. A steam engine train arrives at a railway station in Paris. Joachim Von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister moves out of the train. French Foreign Minister George Bonett and other officials welcome him. The two ministers and other officials at Elysee Palace for signing the Non Aggression Treaty. Ribbentrop and Bonett sign the treaty as a step towards European peace. Some ambient room noise in background.
Newsreel titled Atlantic Pact General Ike opens permanent HQ. Official headquarters of Atlantic treaty forces at hotel Astoria in Paris. A guard on duty outside supreme commander General Dawid Eisenhower's office. General Eisenhower signs an order announcing his assumption of command and makes a formal statement about his duties.
German prisoners of war marched to jobs at Etaples. French soldier searches a German. Prisoners lined up in at prison camp.
United States troops board boats to ferry them out to troop transport ships for return home at end of World War 1. The troops are seen aboard a number of steam ferry boats, ready to leave the port. More soldiers march onto the pier and board boats. View from a departing boat as it leaves the docks. Views of the port facilities as the boat passes them. Houses on shore in the distance. Officers in wheel house of the camera boat as it makes way. More views of commercial activities on the waterfront as the boat departs.
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