NATO CONFERENCE, FORO ITALICO, ROME, ITALY Part 1

Description

VS, Int, NATO delegates and quests including Bidault, France; De Gasperi, Italy and Eden of Britain walk in the corridor, enter conference hall. VS, Acheson, Eden, De Gasperi, others walk up stairs, enter conference room. Two Italian soldiers in dress uniform walk up stairs. LSs, & RV, Ext, Gens Dwight D. Eisenhower and Alfred M. Gruenther walk past honor guard into Foro Italico. Eisenhower leaves bldg, salutes honor guard, walks to car. Still and MP photogs at work. Seq: Ext, Gruenther, others greet Eisenhower and W. Averell Harriman who debark from transport plane at Champind Air Field. Eisenhower passes honor guard, speaks briefly to newsmen. Gen. and Mrs. Eisenhower in auto; auto drives off. MSs, Int, delegates at conference table including Gen. Omar Bradley, unident. naval officer, British and Italian officers at table. LS, delegates at conference table. Seq: Ext, Bidault, others walk in French cemetery. Bidault greets Marshall Alfonse Juin. They inspect the graves of French and Moroccan troops. They attend wreath laying ceremonies. VS, honor guard at cemetery. CU, MLS, wreath. Bas-relief of fallen man on monument. LSs, Int, Eisenhower, Gruenther enter and sit at conference table. VS, newsmen with earphones, and spectators rise, chat in conference audience.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection