Conservatives In Conference (1950)

Conservatives in Conference, Blackpool in Lancashire. GV Blackpool beach and tower. SV Angle shot Winter Garden pan down to people entering. SV People entering. LV crowded foyer. MV Lord Woolton, Anthony Eden and R.A. Butler. CU Pan Eden and Butler. CU Maxwell Fyfe. MV Walter Elliott and wife arriving at hall. MV Lord Woolton and wife. LV Eden on platform. Delegates applauding. LV Crowded boxes applauding. SCU Eden speaking. LS conference. Voice continues. LS boxes. Voice over. MS Lord Woolton listening. Voice over. SCU Eden speaking. LS audience applauding. Natural sound: ’I do not believe that there’s any nation in the modern world that would be so rash as to embark upon a policy of open aggression, once it is convinced of the strength and readiness and resolution of the forces arrayed against them. The task of the Western Democracies therefore is as simple as it is urgent. They have to build up their defensive strength with all speed and vigour, not to make war but to negotiate peace from strength.’
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