| NATO Call: Ike Instills New Hope In Free World | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1642 |
| Catalog #: | 355295 | |
| Clip Number: | 355295-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 030-103-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:14:08 - 00:16:36 | |
| Location: | Paris, France | |
| Year Shot: | 1957 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France, Paris PERSONALITIES: Dulles, John Foster PERSONALITIES: Eisenhower, Dwight (Ike) WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Misc. | |
| Description: | Pres. Eisenhower speaks of NATO accomplishments and urges new dedication to its principals. 'Ike's' speech precedes accord by NATO Nations on missile bases. President Eisenhower and Sectary Dulles walking in a building that reads OTAN. As the leaders of 15-nations convene the role of Europe’s free nations become more clear. Three nations will accept the installation of three intermediate missiles on their territory. Spearheading the meeting is an address by the President as he reviews NATO'S achievement as a block to Russian aggression. President Eisenhower, "NATO was born nearly 10-years ago. Eight European Nations had then come under Soviet domination and there was clear danger that the rest of Europe might, nation by nation fall before the powerful military and political influence of the Soviet Union. NATO has proved itself as an agency of peace and a security for us. Since it's came into being no further nation of Europe has been lost to Communist aggression. Behind the barrier of NATO's determent power, conventional and nuclear, the peoples of the West have made great advances. Here on the continent of Europe there has been archived a progress toward unity, in terms of the coal and steel community, uranium and the common market. This has been justified, the vision of statesmen, and there's been provided a new stimulus of vast creative forces long and feeble by irrational divisions. Everywhere the people of the West have attained new levels of economic prosperity. I have known the comradeship of men in arms from many nations joined in the defense of freedom. The sense of sharing moments of crisis and decision is a moving and lasting one. Too often those moments come only in time of war. It would indeed be a tragedy if we could not, in waging peace share the joy of common decision, common effort and common sacrifice. There is no task so difficult yet so imperative and so honorable". | |
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