How Stands the War?
Series
- Series Name
- British Paramount News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- Prime Minister returns from Quebec and congratulates country on transformed war situation. Allied armies now mass on German frontiers and are across it in places. LIBERATED FRANCE The town of Vichy welcomes the FFI. The Belgian House of Representatives elects Prince Charles Regent. THE CAPTURED PORTS First pictures from Marseilles, Toulon, Boulogne, Havre and Brest since enemy withdrew show extent of Nazi demolitions. THE HOME FRONT Rivalling war in public interest is publication of White Paper on social security, also release of news of oil discovery somewhere in England. BURMA Latest pictures of Fourteenth Army campaign show tremendous difficulties encountered by British, Indian and Dominion troops in Far East. SALUTE TO AIRBORNE Army cameramen secure historic pictures of Arnhem battlefield where heroic fighting enabled British Second Army to consolidate their heroic gains.
- Keywords
- Royalty; Politics and government; Ships and boats; Economics; Social conditions; Ceremonies; Social welfare; War damage; Occupied territories; Exile; Military
- Length of story (in feet)
- 744
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Production Documents
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- Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
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SW1P 2TX - Notes
- British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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