Dedication of British Pavilion

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

The British, Australian, and New Zealand Pavilions are dedicated at the 1939 New York World Fair. Louis Beale, British High Commissioner acts as compere. United States Commissioner General Edward Flynn, World's Fair President Grover Whalen, British Ambassador Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay, British Minister of Foreign Trade Robert Spear Hudson, and mayor Fiorello La Guardia speak at the ceremony.
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