• This document was the script of a film in a series called British Calendar.
  
• British Calendar was produced by the British Government's Ministry of Information.
  
• Ministry of Information films covered almost any subject you could think of, from safety in the home to what to do in the event of a nuclear attack.
  
• British Calendar's aim was to inform the British public more widely about the events taking place in the wider world which concerned Britain.
  
• The sections labelled SEQUENCE refer to the film footage being shown while the text of the script is read out over the film footage.