One Minute News Beware - Other Items Share This Title (1946)

Title reads: “One Minute News“. Intertitle: “London“. Author Somerset Maugham is interviewed before leaving for France, at his London hotel. Various shots of author seated at his desk writing. C/U of Maugham. Speaking from his desk, he gives advice to would be authors. M/S of Pathe reporter John Parsons talking to him. Intertitle: “Palestine“. (Israel). M/S of a crowd of Jewish immigrants behind barbed wire of camp where they have been held by the authorities. M/S of the immigrants walking out of the camp, heavy packs on their backs. They march along a road towards the camera. L/S of refugees as they bundle into a coach which almost overturns as it drives over rough ground. Sir Alan Cunningham, High Commissioner for Palestine, visits Arab Sheikh, Suliman Azzieh. M/S of Cunningham being entertained under the palm trees by the side of a pool. Arab men in traditional dress stand around, their reflections are seen in the water. L/S of a man climbing down a palm tree. M/S of the high commissi