Parisian street corner. Policemen stand in front of tunnel entrance to building. Cars pass on a street. Automobile on flat bed wagon being pulled by horses. Pedestrians stand on pavement. Several pedestrians pass by. Pedestrians pass in front of an iron gates of the Ministry of Interior and Hotel de Beauvau, on Place Beauvau, Paris. A uniformed guard stands in front . Several men enter the building. Cars and buses pass by. At train station, trainmen bend down and carefully inspect Steam Locomotive engine and driving wheels. Supervisors in suits and ties also look on during the inspection. A long train is seen traveling on tracks beside hills and woods.
Automobiles at Place Beauvau, Paris. Pedestrians pass in front of the decorative iron gates of the Ministry of Interior and Hotel de Beauvau. Several men enter the building. Several uniformed policemen stand guard and direct traffic. Cars and a bicycle pass by. View of a train station from afar, and then view from inside the train station. Steam locomotive positioned at platform in train station. Crowd at the railway platform. Passengers move about in the train station. A train arrives and stops in the station. Passengers get out and others get into the train. Arriving passengers enter the train station hall. A train arrives. Some travelers await it on platform outside the station proper.
French Admiral (Platon?) is interviewed by journalist, with microphone. The Admiral is in the company of high ranking German and French officers associated with the LVF (Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism) French and German military officers stand, in ceremony honoring LVF fallen, at the eternal flame by the Arc de Triomphe. Troops, of French Legion Tricolore, form honor guard at tomb of unknown soldier, adorned with wreaths. Crowds on Champs Elysees. German and French officers and officials leaving Cathedral of Notre Dame, following religious ceremony in honor of the LVF (newly renamed the Legion Tricolore). French Republican Honor Guard, seen in shiny helmets, carrying swords. High ranking military and officials getting into their chauffered automobiles, in midst of crowds. Two soldiers of the La Legion Tricolore, in plaza, surrounded by onlookers. (World War II period).
View from elevated vantage point, of soldiers assembling beneath the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. Others move from a street, forming up and marching into the circle around the monument (which has been cleared for the event). Spectators line the sidewalks around the Arch circle. Several motorcycles lead and others escort a motorcade of several cars. Street-level view of General Dwight Eisenhower,saluting the crowds, as he stands in an open car passing the Monument to the Republic, situated at Place de la République. The car crosses a bridge and turns toward the Hotel de Ville (City Hall) on the place de l'Hotel-de-Ville. Closeups of crowds from the passing car. Sequence shifts to a different open car carrying French Marshal jean de lattre de tassigny (smoking a cigarette) sharing the back seat with a French Air Force officer (appears to be Philippe Maurin). (World War II period).
General and Mrs Eisenhower meet other officials in Paris. He sends his request to be relieved of his post as the Commander-in-Chief of Western Europe's armies. He addresses the officials and talks about the GOP convention.
Panning views of the damaged Fort Conde (East of Soissons, on Aisne) after its capture by French forces on April 17, 1917, in World War 1. Several British officers walk into the abandoned fort. Two dead horses are seen amid debris.
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