Title:THE BRITISH EMBASSY RE-OPENS WITH THE ARRIVAL OF MR DUFF COOPER, THE NEW AMBASSADOR [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 157-9
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: An advance party of British Embassy staff, which includes the First Secretary to the Embassy, Mr Holman, arrives at the embassy to take official possession and is met by M Iselin, Chief Officer of Foreign Affairs at the Swiss Embassy, which had taken charge of the premises during the German occupation, and by embassy servants who were interned during the same period. A welcoming party consisting of the British military and embassy staffs in Paris and senior French government officials await the arrival of the newly-accredited ambassador, Alfred Duff Cooper and Lady Diana, his wife, at Le Bourget airport. An RAF Mustang fighter squadron heralds their arrival in a Douglas Dakota. After leaving Le Bourget, the ambassadorial party is driven to the Arc de Triomphe, where Duff Cooper places a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, before then being taken to the British Embassy where the new ambassador and his wife are welcomed by French removal workers taking away furniture stored on the premises by the Swiss.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Rudkin (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Stafford (Air Vice Marshal) (person)
Carthew-Yorston (Brigadier) (person)
Cooper, Diana Olivia Winifred Maud (person)
Cooper, (Alfred) Duff (person)
Holman (Mr) (person)
Iselin (person)
French police (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
British Army, Army Film and Photographic Unit (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, German - combat: Heinkel He 111 (object name)
aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas C-47 Dakota (object name)
aircraft, United States - combat: Curtiss P-51 Mustang (object name)
buildings, French - monumental: Arc de Triomphe (object name)
destruction, French military - area: bomb (object name)
transport, British military - car: heavy utility 4x4 car (object name)
arts, British - heraldry: flag, Union Jack (object name)
administration, British - civilian: British Embassy, Paris (object name)
Arc de Triomphe, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography)
British Embassy, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography)
Le Bourget, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography)
Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography)
