Summary

Ridgway greeted by Eisenhower with Pleven and Gruenther; NATO leaders sign European Defense Pact; Berlin scenes from 1948

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # D-4735
Clip SR005291_01_04mov
Date 05/27/1952
Title Ridgway greeted by Eisenhower with Pleven and Gruenther; NATO leaders sign European Defense Pact; Berlin scenes from 1948
Description Title card: Report From Berlin-Paris-Europe's Days of Firmness and Challenge / arrival of Gen Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, followed by group, line of soldiers on side, people behind barricades on other side, Army plane in bg; he is met by Gen Dwight Eisenhower, who salutes him / MS Eisenhower, wearing dark glasses, walks with Ridgway and Rene Pleven, French Minister of Defense; Ridgway salutes, then Eisenhower / Eisenhower and Ridgway shaking hands, / NATO flags flying / Ridgway shaking hands with officer, then his Chief of Staff General Alfred Guenther, with French officer on other side, at NATO headquarters / officers entering headquarters / French foreign office building, people on sidewalk / VS officials sitting and standing around conference table / closer shot including West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer / officials at table / Adenauer preparing to sign European Defense Pact amid others / Adenauer signing / beside him Belgium representative signing / men standing at table / French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman signing / room / officials at table / room / animated map of Germany and surrounding countries; shading of East Germany, then hammer and sickle and divisions of West Germany with flags of occupying countries / various shots Potsdamer Platz public square in Berlin from 1948 / pan down street sign for Potsdamer Platz to pedestrians / animated map of Berlin; flags of sectors of occupying countries fade in / sign You Are Now Leaving British Sector / CU sign / sign Helmstedt US Zone British Zone Russian Zone, looks like tank atop small building in bg / sign You Are Now Leaving The American Sector, same in Russian and French beneath / empty highway / pan from sign British Zone across highway to Berlin sign / boat in canal, building and crane in bg / LS canal with barges and boats / crowd / MS people / crowd in street with some debris, can see back of streetcar / people and traffic in street
Personality Matthew B Ridgway, Dwight D Eisenhower, Rene Pleven, Alfred Gruenther, Konrad Adenauer, Dean Acheson, Robert Schuman
Country France
City Paris

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