1949: We Want To Help Britain
December 23, 2020
By AHNZ
The little clip is completely composed of vague, empty, politician-speak but signals friendship and support for the British Empire. It may be that UK propagandists requested the leaders of their colonies to all send little video Christmas cards like these so they could be played in a montage. Something to cheer up the war-weary Brits while they counted their ration stamps?
At least the Cantabrian, Holland, sounded like a New Zealander (His predecessor spoke like the bad guy from Supergran.)