| ATLANTIC PACT MEETING Atlantic Pact Ministers meet at the Hague. | ||
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| Catalog #: | 237980 | |
| Clip Number: | 237980-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 2244 B | |
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| Location: | The Hague, Netherlands | |
| Year Shot: | 1950 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | |
| Description: | ATLANTIC PACT MINISTERS MEET AT THE HAGUE The Hague, Netherlands Exterior views of Princess Juliana Barracks where the conference was held (2 shots). MS unknown naval officer alighting from car. CU guard of honour. MS Netherlands' Minister Schokking alighting from car and entering. MS Emanuel Shinwell (British Secretary of State for War) alighting from car and entering. MS M. Pleven (France) alighting from car and entering. MS Louis Johnson (US Secretary of Defence) chatting with Schokking. MS General Omar Bradley (Chief of Staff US Army) greeting General Kruls (Netherlands). MS Johnson chatting to others. MS delegates chatting. MS Johnson greeting Minister Deveze (Belgium). MS Johnson sitting. MS Johnson chatting with Deveze. Panning shot round conference table. CU Johnson speaking. "The objective of the North Atlantic Treay are very simple First we seek to deter aggression Second to defend ourselves and finally to defeat an aggressor if he forces war upon us. To deter to defend to defeat. These in brief are the successive aims we seek to promote. 'We'll get on with the urgent business that the free peoples of the Western World have entrusted to us here as its representatives. Let's do it well. Let us hopeI pray you for strength and through strength for peace for we believe that peace and strength is the best guarantee for the protection of our freedom and beloved. Ways of life." Delegates listening (7 shots). CU woman at shorthand machine. MS delegates listening (2 shots). MS Deveze and Bradley listening. MS General William Slim (Chief of the Imperial General Staff) listening. MS Schokking speaking. "I am very grateful to you for the kind words in which you have seen fit to thank by Government for the way it has tried to return the hospitality which the Netherlands represetatives have experienced in other countries. The signs of economics recovery and reconstruction we have seen our trips not have been brought about by our own efforts alone. It is a fact and I mention it gratefully that this result has been achieved also through Marshal Aid. In conclusion I wish to convey my Governments hope that will be at home here during your stay and I should like to express on behalf of my government my best wishes for an overall success for this conference." Elevated shot conference. MS Shinwell and Bradley listening. Various shots of the conference (5 shots). MS Johnson speaking. Various shots of conference. | |
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