US "Crusade for Freedom" leaders return to New York after their last stop in France, where they were briefed by Gen. Alfred Gruenther

Title: "Crusade For Freedom - Civic Leaders Report on European Tour" superimposed over group of civic leaders descending from steps of plane at Idlewild Airport in Queens, New York City // Louveciennes, France: EXT view of SHAPE Headquarters, flags flying in foreground / WS and MS Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, posing on steps of SHAPE Headquarters with group / people taking pictures / INT VS Gen. Gruenther lecturing from blackboard / CU Gruenther lecturing in front of map // WS Gruenther lecturing in front of map // Queens, N.Y. - Intertitle "New York" superimposed over plane arriving at Idlewild Airport / PAN people holding banner in front of plane, banner says: "Crusade For Freedom" / WS Crusade for Freedom civic leaders descending steps of plane / INT Merton B. Tice, Commander-in-Chief of Veterans of Foreign Wars, and others posing before microphone / CU Tice / VS Tice SOTs: it is one of those things that you have got to see to really understand. We've seen the escapees and we've seen the barbed wire and we come back to build a open faith, Radio Free Europe will play its tremendous part in this proposition of liberation and give freedom to these people once more. So I ask the American public to continue their crusade for freedom, to continue radio free Europe and let us carry with our American dollars that hope and that faith which is so necessary to those people behind barbed wire borders of the Communists dominated countries / Note: exact day not known