Gaumont British News No. 37

1. Title: 'Mr Menzies has a message for America.' At the end of his first wartime visit to Britain the Australian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies held a press conference to say that he would use his visit to the United States press for American aid in Britain's war effort . 2. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit a British Army training establishment. Shows King George firing a Thompson sub machine gun. 3. Animals at the Colombo Zoo, Ceylon. 4. New Zealand Forces Club, London. Lady Louis Mountbatten presents an ambulance provided by the ANZAC war relief fund to the New Zealand High Commissioner. 5. Title: Night Fighters establish new records. Shows Hawker Hurricane of 71 Squadron RAF (Sqn code XR) fighters taking off. Wreckage of shot down German aircraft. Luftwaffe POW s under armed escort. 6. Title: 'Britain's Paratroops. First pictures of our parachute men in training.' Shows physical training, unarmed combat, parachute packing, practice drop from balloon and the first jump from an aircrafty. 7. 'Mr Menzies with Coastal Command'. Shows Mr Menzies visiting Australians serving with RAF Coastal Command. Menzies films with his 16mm Cine Kodak bomb damage. 8. Title 'Comforts for children of Britain'. Shows the Duchess of Kent at the Headquarters of the National Council of Girls Clubs and the clothes sent by Australian school girls for bombed out British children.