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1948 Installation of General Smuts as Chancellor of Cambridge.
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1:18Now PlayingDate: 14th June 1948
Location: Cambridge
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: General Smuts As Chancellor Of Cambridge
ENGLAND: Cambridge:
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CAMBRIDGE Installation of General Smuts as Chancellor of Cambridge. Shot of Chancellor in procession to Senate House. Shots of Procession with Smuts, Churchill and Cripps. Other present??? include Sir John Anderson and Lord Tedder
MR CHURCHILL Walking with General Smuts in front of Cripps to receive a Chancellorship at Cambridge. Seen with Smuts
CRIPPS Seen in procession with Field-Marshall Smuts and Winston Churchill when Smuts receives Chancellorship of Cambridge
SMUTS Seen in procession to Chancellery. Receives degree. in procession headed by himself with Churchill and Cripps Seen acknowledging the plaudits of the crowd
Personalities - Politicians; South Africa
Sir Winston, Jan Smuts, peacetime, postwar, Prime Minister, university, Stafford Cripps
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