Nato’s 10th Birthday (1959)

Unissued / unused material. American newsreel item. Free World hails NATO on its 10th Birthday, Washington DC, United States of America (USA). Guard of Honour, pan to exterior of Washington’s Departmental Auditorium, with Guard of Honour outside. CU US soldiers. Top shot of Ministers arriving. Assembly. MS President Dwight Eisenhower (Ike) walking toward stand. CU President Eisenhower speaking (natural sound): “We shall continue to make concrete and realistic proposals for disarmament for the solutions of the problems of Germany, for European security and for co-operation in the newly opening realm of outer space. Although we shall always avoid substitution, substituting illusion for reality, we shall continue to strive for a more general and far reaching, but always practical settlement of difference with the Soviets. The need for everlasting peace with justice is the abandonment of the Communist purpose of World domination. Those who respect the dignity of man will not flinch before th