Sanitation workers are seen at work on the streets of Paris. Shopkeeper carries large can of garbage to a trash collection truck on the street. Trash collectors pose behind their truck. Garbage truck drives along the Champs Elysee, with crew riding on back door. They are escorted by Paris policemen on bicycles. They pick up more trash at a stop, where they pause, as police wave people past them. The Arc de Triomphe can be seen in background.
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.
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