Seventh founding anniversary of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund). Thirteen girls from a New York settlement house enter the room and present Madame Pandit, retiring President of the UN, with a flag-bedecked cake. Madame Pandit cuts the cake. Children share the cake pieces.
Britain declares war on Germany. Artillery poised on streets of London with Big Ben clock tower in the background on the grounds of the Palace of Westminster. People gathered outside and near fountain of Trafalgar Square. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declares a state of war in London. Troops mobilize and air raid defenses are manned to prevent bombing attacks. Soldiers firing artillery, building barricades. Battleships underway at sea. Soldiers continue firing at night. Destroyed buildings and wrecked equipment. Thousands of children are evacuated to the countryside.
United Nations meeting in Flushing Meadows, New York. U.S. ambassador to the UN , Edward Stettinius, is seen at conference table, seated next to Sir Alexander Catogan, of the United Kingdom. Meeting adjourns and members prepare to depart.
Following a State Funeral at Westminster Abbey, coffin bearing Nurse Edith Cavell's body is carried out and put on gun carriage. Mourners attend the funeral. Mourners, sailors with wreaths, nurses and other services in procession with horse-drawn carriage move on road. Soldiers lift the coffin. Coffin transferred at a ship for its transport to Norfolk for burial at Norwich Cathedral. (This state funeral followed disinterment of Cavell's body in Belgium, after her execution on October 12, 1915).
British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Anthony Eden speaks with Foreign Minister for the National Committee for Liberation Rene Massigli in London, England. British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Anthony Eden, and Foreign Minister for the National Committee for Liberation Rene Massigli seated at a table. Rene Massigli takes out documents from a bag. The officials look at documents.
The government crashes in the United Kingdom. In Ballater, Scotland: King George V of the United Kingdom reviews honor guard. The King is driven away in a Rolls Royce Phantom II automobile. Next scene is in London, England: United Kingdom Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald with his Labour party members and leaders of the Conservatives liberals to form his cabinet.
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