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Visit of French General de Lattre de Tassigny to Washington DC

Reel Number: 220768-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1951

Country: USA

Location: DC,Washington

TC Begins: 00:58:49

TC Ends: 01:06:14

Duration: 00:07:25

Visit of French General de Lattre de Tassigny to Washington DC General de Lattre de Tassigny and his staff coming down ramp from plane. They assemble on field and salute. Guns fire salute. De Lattre and other French officers saluting. 01:00:03 General J Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff, with General de Lattre at microphone. Ambassador Henri Bonnet and French officers stand in BG General Collins makes a speech of greetings, saying that they know of General de Lattre's great fight in Indo-china. General de Lattre answers in English, saying at the end that the French are engaged in a ruthless war against Communism in Indochina. De Lattre makes a statement in French for Voice of America radio. Collins and de Lattre as the latter makes she same speech in French that he made above in English.

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