VISIT OF FRENCH GENERAL DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY, FRENCH HIGH COMMISSIONER CINC FRENCH FORCES, FAR EAST Part 1

Description

Summary: Gen de Lattre and his staff coming down ramp from plane. MLS, they assemble on field and salute. LS, as guns fire salute. MS, de Lattre and other French officers saluting. MS, Gen J Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff, with Gen de Lattre at microphone. Ambassador Henri A Bonnet and French officers stand in bg. MS, Gen Collins makes a speech of greetings, saying that they know of Gen de Lattre's great fight in Indochina. Gen de Lattre answers in English, saying at the end that the French are engaged in a ruthless war against Communism in Indochina. MS, de Lattre makes a statement in French for radio. MS, Collins and de Lattre as the latter makes she same speech in French that he made above in English.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities