Mr Churchill At City Banquet (1951)

Full title reads: “Mr Churchill At City Banquet“. Guildhall, London. The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill attends the New Lord Mayor’s banquet. GV Interior Assembled personalities in Guildhall. SV New Lord Mayor Sir Leslie Boyce drinks from loving cup and hands it to Churchill. SV Old Lord and Lady Mayoress Sir and Lady Denys Lowson. SV Trumpeters sounding fanfare. CU Churchill rising to speak amid cheers. SV Guests applauding. CU Churchill speaking “Vast masses of warm-hearted human beings wanting to do their best for their country and their neighbours and longing to build their homes and bring up their children in peace, freedom and the hope of better times for the young when they grow up. But then there came along all these tribes of nationalists, ideologues, revolutionaries, class warfare experts, and imperialists, with their nasty regimentation of academic doctrinaires, striving night and day to work them all up against one another so that the homes, instead of being built, are bombed and the brea
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