- Title: DEFENCE: Democracy cries halt!
- Date: 6th April 1939
- Summary: ENGLAND: London: EXT Colonel Beck (Polish Foreign Minister) and Guy La Chambre in London. General view train into station / Colonel Beck out of train & greeted by Lord Halifax (Foreign Secretary) / pressmen / Beck shakes hands and posing / Beck walks off / General view Beck with Guy La Chambre / Beck's car towards / pressmen / Beck out of car / Beck posing pan to pressmen / Beck raises hat & smiles / Beck into Foreign Office. 'Air Ministry' sign / General view Air Ministry / La Chambre towards / group into Air Ministry / Beck at Foreign Office / pan into car / car towards / Sir Kingsley Wood (Secretary of State for Air) & La Chambre / Wood & La Chambre run across road and knock & enter No. 10. A.L.P. & Territorial Material. Poster "Join the Modern Army" / "Anti-Aircraft" poster / big poster "We have got to be prepared" / Nelson's Column poster "National Service" General view crowd in Hyde Park / Gas-cylinders pan to balloon being inflated, men holding ropes and men holding ropes pan up to balloons / Ernest Brown (Liberal politician) & Colonel Nathen looking up / Ernest Brown & Nathen talking / two balloons in air / kiddie looking up / Chelsea Pensioner looking up / Pan from crowd looking up to balloon in air / crowd around anti-aircraft gun / soldiers around A gun / first-aid men at work on patient and carrying stretcher thru' crowd / men putting patient on stretcher into ambulance / sign "Territorial Army, Information as to Enrolment" / Pan recruit into tent NIGHT Searchlight / crowd watching / soldier & searchlight / two searchlights in sky DAY Recruits in line / notice "Q.M.Stores" pan to soldier getting equipment / soldier hands equipment to recruit / recruit trying on steel-helmet / recruit trying on uniform / woman orderly giving out equipment / class receiving instruction in 3.7 gun INT Gun with recruits in b-g / recruits on gun / lecture about gun-breach / Pan from officer to men listening / men around predictor / "Artists Rifles" at practice / Men firing rifles / target being hit near bull / lecture on Bren gun / Bren gun being loaded & fired / recruits looking on / man taking barrel off Bren-gun / artists-recruits looking at map.
- Embargoed: 21st April 1939 13:00
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- Location: WARSAW, POLAND WILHELMSHAVEN, GERMANY GERMANY PARIS, FRANCE WAR OFFICE WHITEHALL, ENGLAND LONDON, ENGLAND HENDON, ENGLAND HAMPSTEAD, ENGLAND
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- Country: EUROPE Poland England United Kingdom Germany
- Topics: International Relations,Defence / Military
- Reuters ID: LVAEEVBVSPWNJIUNOF0I0Z29MO49
- Story Text: British Paramount News surveys the change in feeling brought about by Britain's new foreign policy. Our story includes: Arrival of Colonel Beck. ARP rally in Hyde Park and Volunteers join Territorials.
- Copyright Holder: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
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