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.
Lieutenant General George S. Patton emerges from a tent, with Major General Lindsey M. Sylvester, Commander of the 7th Armored Division. They converse, as Patton gets into his jeep. General Sylvester salutes as General Patton drives away in his jeep which displays a three-star pennant. A heavy machine gun is mounted in the jeep.
A sign identifies field installation of the 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment. A group of U.S. Army medics, wearing red cross helmets, carry a wounded soldier of the U.S. 8th Infantry Division, on a stretcher. They are assisted by a captured German soldier, and followed by an armed U.S. soldier. They carry the wounded soldier into a concrete block building that serves as a field medical treatment center.
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.
Allied reinforcements arriving during invasion of Normandy in World War II. Scenes a day or two after D-Day. Beachmaster waves white flag. Landing Craft Utility number 385 is behind him and other Logistic and utility ships seen on beach in distance. Two U.S. soldiers stand at waters edge. A landing craft Vehicle (LCV Number 594)in water, close to beach, behind them, packed with U.S.troops. A bulldozer and a DUKW seen in front of the LCV. Troops wade ashore from the LCV.
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