Fashion models displaying various outfits designed by French designers Nina Ricci and Gerard Pippart. Designer skirts, gowns and other outfits are worn by models. Summer and spring collection in Paris fashion mart is displayed in soothing floral prints and straight line prints
Opening scene shows a large round table where a NATO staff meeting was interrupted for a lunch break. Next, staff members are seen obtaining food in a cafeteria line and sitting at tables in the dining facility. Camera pans the room, focusing on one table where two staff are discussing shipping (according to the Narrator). Scene shifts fo a busy seaport with boats and ships. Back in the dining hall, the camera focuses on two staff who are discussing the Italian G-91 fighter plane, built to NATO specifications by several nations, cooperatively.Next, one is seen being towed along an airfield ramp. A prototype vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (Hawker P.1127 Kestrel) is seen being demonstrated. Back to the men at the table in the dining hall where they are ostensibly now discussing the problems of transporting large defense items. A truck is seen transporting a large object covered in canvas to hide it. Staff are seen at the end of the day enjoying drinks and casual conversations at a bar. Two French aviators in uniform are conversing. Narrator speculates on their conversation, noting the need for care not to divulge possible military secrets, such as the rigors of their last training course. Glimpse of a helicopter above snow-covered mountain. Another view of a helicopter at the top of Mont Blanc. Another view in the dining facility where Narrator suggests a man pouring coffee might be thinking about such esoteric matters as bugs in computers. View of numerous items in an array of electronic devices. (Narrator notes the man keeps his thoughts to himself)
Film opens showing silhouettes of NATO tanks (appear to be M-47 Patton tanks) moving backwards across a hilltop. Soldiers move about in foreground. A submarine partially submerged moving through water. A NATO jet fighter aircraft taking off at night. An aircraft carrier at sea. A radar scope showing line of rotating antenna. A huge fixed ground radar antenna rotating at sunrise (or sunset). An armed sentry walking his post in late sunset. Scene shifts to a large NATO assembly room, empty except for a person cleaning with a vacuum. Closeup of NATO symbol and Council for Defense written below it. A man checks the audio systems for the room. A man in a control booth above the room manipulates switches related to the audio.
French Foreign Minister George Bidault, Russian Foreign Minister Molotov, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ernest Bevin, United States Secretary of State James F Byrnes along with Senators Connally and Vandenberg arrives for the Foreign Ministers Council at Luxembourg Palace, Paris. They are having discussion in the conference room.
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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