Britain's First National Government 1931

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Full title reads: "London. Britain's first 'National' Cabinet - on whom the World's eyes are resting - pose in the garden of No. 10 Downing Street before tackling their immense task."

London.

James Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Philip Snowden and Sir Herbert Samuel comes down...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
12666
Sort Number:
31/071
Time in/Out:
01:19:10:00 / 01:20:45:00
Canister:
31/71
Film ID:
865.13
Issue Date:
03/09/1931

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