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)

Parliament meets

ENGLAND: Westminster:

Crowd outside Parliament / Pan car into courtyard / Oliver Stanley & Malcolm Macdonald along to Parliament/ Lady Astor in car / Anthony Eden (Foreign Secretary) arriving / Queen Mary arriving in car / pan Duke of Kent's car

Downing Street:

Angle shot Mrs. Chamberlain to car out of No. 10 / Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain into car & out of No. 10 / car drives away.

Big Ben showing time at 2.45

GERMANY: Berlin: Sports Palace:

General view crowd in Sports Stadium..pan up to sign "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer!" / Hitler making excited speech / Nazis cheering & saluting

ENGLAND: Trafalgar Square:

Crowds in Trafalgar Square at night.

Gas masks fitted

London:

A.R.P. poster - "Gas Mask Fitting Centre" / Gas Mask Distribution Centre / Pan from poster to queue / crowd in queue for fitting / notice.."Respirator Fitting Station"/ Gas masks being fitted / Names being written on Gas Mask Certificate / More of gas masks being fitted

Kensington:

Town Hall with sandbags beneath / Two girls towards with gas masks past sandbags / woman with pram & gas masks past sandbags / woman with boy holding gas-masks

WALES: Cardiff:

Joining up papers / Recruits out of barracks / Pan from crowd to troops towards / recruit in civvies / troops into coach / Pan from women to troops in coach / soldier kissing wife / women waving & crying

Navy Mobilised

Portsmouth:

Sailors march out of gate / Line of sailors and sailor-recruits marching in civvies

Air Raid Precaution poster / girls signing for service / girl at desk / pan from girl to woman signing for Active Service

CZECHOSLOVAKIA (CZECH REPUBLIC): Prague:

View over Prague with soldier silhouetted in foreground / General view reservists / man directing reservists / reservists signing up / men uncovering case of rifles / soldier with Bran gun / more of men uncovering rifles / rifles being given out / man examining rifle / steel-helmets in case being taken out / men fitting steel-helmets / man fitting helmet / man fitting gas mask / General view field-kitchen / men cooking side-of-beef / men dishing out food / pan down soldiers eating / horses' feet along road / General view cavalry along road.

ENGLAND:

Placard "Keep calm - and dig" / Men digging trenches for shelters in park

War Preparations.

Horseguards Parade:

General view gun emplacement on Horseguards / searchlight

Hyde Park:

Gun emplacement in Hyde Park.

Embankment:

Ammunition dumps on Embankment / Anti-aircraft guns with Parliament in background

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