... Britain

Report on the statement in the House of Commons special session on Saturday April 3rd by the prime minister which may have committed the UK to war over the Falklands with Argentina. With an interview with Defence minister John Nott.

Amateur footage of scenes between Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai; remains of war-damaged buildings?; Shanghai.

... (Waddell, 1961, 83).

In the aftermath of the First World War, British Honduras experienced a sharp economic decline. Trade ... , and Colonial State in British Honduras’, Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas, ...

Great Britain

ACTUALITY. Boer War. A long line of carts and wagons drawn by mules and oxen crosses the Vaal river - one of the wagons has a large balloon attached to it (96ft).

Note: Filmed by Joe Rosenthal c24 May 1900. According to the Warwick ...

... flight, and brief shadow shot on land of squadron flying in formation overhead.

II. Burma, 3 April 1942, portrait shots of War Correspondents. T E A Healy of the Daily Mirror, Victor Thompson of the Daily Herald, Daniel De Luce of Associated Press ...

... Western Front, but this probably refers to that near the Dixmude road, North of Ypres

General: this is the first of the War Office Topical Budgets in the NTB series to include after the main titles the declaration that the newsreel devotes all its ...

... Thomas, supervises the construction of the poster. It is a mural of the Spanish Armada urging people to buy War Bonds as a defence against a comparable threat from Germany.

II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item ...

... forthcoming meeting with their United States counterparts. Churchill, as the commentary points out, is as much at home in a council of war as at a Cabinet meeting. HMS Prince of Wales arrives safely at its destination in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. The ...

... British Minister of State for the Middle East R G Casey introduces this retrospective edition, which traces the course of the war so far, placing events in the context of Churchill's "bold plan of Mediterranean strategy. Men of the British Expeditionary ...

... Service (WRNS).

II. 'NORTH AFRICA.' Panoramic views show the whitewashed Tunisian coastal town of Sousse, almost untouched by the ravages of war. A street vendor sells corn from a stall. The commentary makes the point that most of Sousse is intact, ...

... 'AFRICAN NATIVE TROOPS.' An item that introduces the various African native troops and stresses their important contribution to the Allied war effort. Sudanese dignitaries watch a march past by members of the Sudan Defence Force in "the shadow of the ...

... British troops as Universal carriers are driven off the ramp of a tank landing craft (LCT). Italian Army prisoners of war read British fly-posters giving proclamations on POW mustering for transportation off Lampedusa and rules relating to the newly ...