Army officers enter the War Office building in London early during World War II. Exterior view of the War Office building (later the Old War Office) and traffic on Horse Guards Avenue in London. Dutch officers get out of car and enter the War Office building. Nelson's Tower at Trafalgar Square seen in distance. Sir John Dill, Vice Chief of the General Imperial Staff, enters the War Office building. Number of officers enter the building. Interior views of an office in the War Office building, with Director of Public Relations at War Office, Major General John Hay Beith, Richard De Rochemont and Maurice Lancaster seated in the office. The officials converse with each other.
Ministers arrive and leave at 10 Downing Street in London, England during World War II. Minister of Information Alfred Duff-Cooper and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Brendon Bracken. Officers, holding maps in hand, get out of the cars and enter a building. Minister of War Anthony Eden, Admiral Dudley Pound, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Sir John Dill, and Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs Viscount Caldecote enter the building. Official cars drive past on 10 Downing street. Arthur Greenwood, Lord of Admiralty walking out of the building. Ministers come out of the building.
French Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet at Croydon Airport in London, England. Air France Potez 62 aircraft lands at London Croydon Airport (Airport House, Purley Way, Croydon CR0 0XZ, United Kingdom). Edouard Daladier and Georges Bonnet disembark from the aircraft. Photographers take pictures. Crowd gathered to welcome the dignitaries. Officials get into staff cars and drive away.
Officials and dignitaries arrive in cars at 10 Downing Street in London, England. Photographers take pictures. French Premier Edouard Daladier, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, Lord Halifax and Premier Neville Chamberlain arrives in cars. French Premier Edouard Daladier speaks with officials outside a building.
View of exterior basement area of Kensington Town Hall (Kensington, London W8 4SG, UK) on Kensington High Street at basement level, as it is being made bombproof in London, England just before outbreak of World War 2. Group of men place sandbags on windows. Next scene shows similar bomb-proofing activity at basement level of the American Embassy (24 Grosvenor Square, London W1A 1AE, United Kingdom) at Grosvenor Square. Workers fill sand into bags with the help of spades, and stack them in front of windows.
Kensington Town Hall basement being made bombproof in London, England. Workers fill sand into bags with the help of spades. Group of men place sandbags on windows at ground level and basement level of the old Kensington Town Hall on High Street (Kensington, London W8 4SG, UK). People carry sandbags on their shoulders. Old man helps to fill sandbags. View of underground tube station entrance at Charing Cross. Board reads 'Underground, Charing Cross'. More views of workers filling sandbags and working to protect Kensington Town Hall from bomb damage as World War 2 looms.
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