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Weekly Review No. 195 - New Zealand Celebrates VE Day
Short Film (Full Length) – 1945
The news today is good, the moment is too great. Something has to go despite official restraint.– Narrator
Thousands are pouring into the city just as they’re pouring into countless cities and towns across a world that is turning from darkness into light.– Narrator
No let up until we’ve made our major contribution inside and outside our own country to the building of a better world in which security will be available to all people, in all lands, of whatever colour or creed they may be.– Walter Nash, Deputy Prime Minister
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