General Jan Smuts Appeals for Peace

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

87

Date Released

2 Feb 1931

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1See Motor Police at Work
2. 2General Jan Smuts Appeals for Peace
3. 3Plane Deliberately Crashed at Sea
4. 4Letting the Cat Out of the Bag
5. 5Winter "Sailors" Get a Skate On
6. 6Street Fire Starts Slum Cleansing

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: General Jan Smuts Appeals for Peace. DESCRIPTION: If the nations of the world could see and speak to each other there would be no more war ... General Jan Smuts, appeals for faith in the World peace influence of League of Nations. EDITOR’S NOTE: Seated in his South African home, his small grandchild on his knee, the great Empire Patriot makes for British Movietone its second utterance on the policy initiated by Signor Mussolini, Pioneer of the League of Nations, framer of its Constitution, General Smuts’ plea in removing the causes and occasions of war. SHOTLIST: CU of General Smuts with grandson on his knee.

Keywords

Politics and government; Children

Footage sources

Movietone

Card file number

1035

Length of story (in feet)

155

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