1938 DEFENCE: Neville Chamberlain to meet Hitler at Munich in last effort to avert war

Date: 29th September 1938

Location: BERLIN, SPORTS PALACE, GERMANY PARIS, FRANCE PRAGUE, CZECH. CARDIFF, WALES WELLINGTON BARRACKS, ENGLAND TRAFALGAR SQ., ENGLAND SHEPHERDS BUSH, ENGLAND PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND WHITEHALL, CENOTAPH, ENGLAND

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

Chamberlain to Meet Hitler, Mussolini & Daladier in Effort to Solve Problem. Leaves Third Visit.

Heston:

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain through crowd / Sir & Lady Simon & Grandi / Hore-Belisha along / Grandi & Dr. Kordt / Chamberlain with Wood, Hailsham, Maugham, Belisha, Halifax, Elliot & Massey / Chamberlain speaks / Crowd around plane / Chamberlain waves & into plane / Plane taxiing away & pan plane taking off / Lockheed Electra British Airways Airliner - G-AFGN.

Sound Effects.

Chamberlain says that when he was a little boy he used to say 'Try, try again' and made quotation from Henry IV.

London:

General view communists parade / banner "Stand by the Czechs" / Top view procession and putting flag in front of Czech legation / crowd being held back by policeman in street.

Downing Street:

No. 10 / Ministers into. No. 10 including Hore-Belisha, de la Warr, Duff-Cooper, Inskip, Lord Halifax, Major Cohen, V.C. wheeled into No. 10, Marquis of Zetland with umbrella, Brown & Malcolm Macdonald and Sir Kingsley Wood / Zetland towards camera, Lord Hailsham leaving, Chamberlain leaving No. 10 poses and into car / Good General view crowd in Downing Street

Daladier Returns Home.

Croydon:

Daladier & Bonnet leaving / Daladier & Bonnet talking / crowd around Air France Airliner / Bonnet & Daladier posing on plane / Airliner takes off / General Gamelin / Gamelin walking to plane / General Gamelin into plane

War Preparations.

London:

PAN from Kensington A.R.P. poster to general view crowd / people into Public Library for fitting gasmasks including girl with baby / General view of queue

Shepherds Bush:

Two women carrying gas masks / General views trench, exterior and interior shots / Men digging trench outside building

Pan from soldier & wife kissing goodbye to pram / coach leaving.

Trenches Dug For A.R.P. Shelters.

Acton:

General views digging trenches at night in front of Lab

Sailors preparing to leave

Whitehall:

General view crowd in Whitehall on pavement / Men bringing stretchers out in Whitehall and putting stretchers into lorry

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