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1939 President Roosevelt asks dictators for a ten year 'pact of peace'
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6:07Now PlayingDate: 20th April 1939
Location: USA, United States
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: Roosevelt's sane call to Europe
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B/W Franklin D. Roosevelt (US President) sitting behind desk / High angle shots crowds on streets / Neville Chamberlain MP (Prime Minister) speaking (not heard) / Edouard Daladier (French Prime Minister) speaking (not heard) / Map of Europe / Adolf Hitler (German Chancellor) and Benito Mussolini (Italian Prime Minister) standing on balcony with GRAPHIC question mark overlaid / Hitler in miiltary uniform with quote 'We have no intention of making war on other peoples BUT - ' overlaid / STILL Mussolini wearing tin helmet / Roosevelt addressing Congress (?) SOT / MONTAGE SEQ showing Italian troops invading Abyssinia and Albania and German soldiers marching into Austria, Czechoslovakia and Memel / Roosevelt speaking (not heard) with text of speech overlaid / King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Chamberlain and American Ambassador at
airfield watching barrage balloon demonstration / Artillery demonstration by British soldiers of anti-aircraft gun firing shells / MONTAGE SEQ Statue of Liberty, Nelson's column / National Service sign at foot of Nelson's column calling for army recruits / Union Jack flying with text 'The End' overlaid
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