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Topical Budget 614-1: Thinking Out His Problems (1923)
 

Synopsis

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"Thinking Out His problems. Mr. Baldwin spends `a quiet' week-end at Chequers before reassembling of Parliament". Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin walking in grounds of Chequers. "With Mrs. Baldwin". Medium shot of the Baldwins in the garden. "Lord Curzon - Foreign Secretary, arriving at the Cecil [Hotel] to propsose Mr. Baldwin as Chairman of Conservative Party." Lord Curzon in top hat alights from car and walks past camera. "Sir Robert Horne who refused the Chancellorship." Medium shot of Horne.

Note: Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law resigned owing to ill health on 20th May 1923. Stanley Baldwin was asked to take over and was elected leader of the Conservatives 28th May.