- Title: DEFENCE / POLITICS: Albert Hall rally of National Service Volunteers
- Date: 26th January 1939
- Summary: SLATE INFORMATION: Government Launch National Service ENGLAND: London: Royal Albert Hall: INT General view pan crowded Albert Hall / Bowater talking on stage / Morrison, Brown, Bowater and Anderson seated / audience / Herbert Morrison talking / General view audience / Sir John Anderson talking / Lord Mayor, Bowater, presenting pennants / General top view audience / Sir Walford Davies conducting community singing / Brown, Morrison, Bowater and Anderson singing / General view assembly / PAN from crowd to "Security by Service" unfurled / Sign "Security by Service" Sound Effects. Morrison says that the best A.R.P. for all countries is the building of a peaceful & prosperous World, and that A.R.P. policy must be a matter for the Government nationally to give us protection against Aerial attack as near as possible 100 percent adequate. Anderson says...that their has been no compulsion on anyone to join, except that inner compulsion of a sense of public duty, which makes them give up their leisure in peace and perhaps their lives in war-time, and that is fitting to re-affirm that great tradition. Natural sound of assembly singing "Jerusalem" Good Scenes General view exterior Albert Hall. Civil Defence; Great Britain
- Embargoed: 10th February 1939 12:00
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- Location: G.P.O., LONDON, ENGLAND ALBERT HALL LONDON, ENGLAND
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- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Defence / Military
- Reuters ID: LVADTMIX2T6WRP73HOP0YWUYWIEA
- Story Text: Albert Hall rally of national service volunteers gives Government campaign big send-off.
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