Duke Speaks To NATO Banquet (1959)
Titles read: GUILDHALL DUKE SPEAKS TO NATO BANQUET. London. Various shots at the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) 10th anniversary banquet as the Duke of Edinburgh prepares to make a speech. C, Us of guests Prince Bernhard, Duncan Sandys, German General Hans Speidel, Dame Florence (widow of Ernest Bevin). Guests applaud and Prince Philip makes his speech. He emphasises that NATO is a defensive and cooperative alliance and refers to the fact that they are having dinner at the Guildhall and not a grand military parade. C, U of General Lauris Norstad (Supreme Allied Commander of Europe) applauding. The Prince talks of NATO allowing Europe to survive ten years of tension and crisis. C, Us of Lord Ismay and Mr PH Spaak, President of the Council of Europe and Belgian Delegate to UNO. The Duke mentions the lately retired guardian angel of NATO himself, Lord Bernard Montgomery, saying some think he s more like the wicked fairy at the moment, but says I am quite sure that his annua
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