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February 2, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Gable, Carole Are Missing" |
(A report that actor Clark Gable and his wife Carole Lombard went missing in a storm. More about this in papers below.) |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report at top right: "Generals Sent To Execution" |
Also note the report in column 6: "300 Graf Spee Prisoners British Captives In Germany" |
(Apparently the German "sources" in Argentina were attempting to convince the British that Altmark was out of their reach. This report was not true, Altmark was still at sea.) |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 2: "100 Are Killed When Jap Planes Bomb Bridge" |
Also note the report in column 6: "Frozen Bodies Of 100 Persons Found, Shanghai" |
Also note the report at bottom: "Nazi Atrocities Outdo Raids Of Tartars" |
Also note the report at bottom: "Vatican Radio Station Is Planning No Further Broadcasts On Treatment Of Poles In Region Annexed By Germany" |
(This was in response to a report that the Vatican radio station made broadcasts denouncing the Nazi treatment of Poles.) |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Exiled Cat Wins Ribbon" |
Also note the report in column 4: "Exiled Polish Government Tells of Atrocities" |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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Note the headline: "Crush Russia - Kaiser" |
(Former Kaiser Wilhelm II, who had been in exile since 1918, seems to have felt that Russia was the real enemy of the world. He either did not realize that Hitler and Stalin were two sides of the same evil coin, or he believed that Stalin was the worse of two evils. What actually happened was the exact opposite, the Allies joined with Russia to crush Germany.) |
Note the report at bottom center: "Groundhog Catches Old Sol Napping and So Winter's Back Is Broken - We Hope, We Hope" |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Note the photo: "Prelude To Fraternity Life At Mines" |
(College students cleaning a statue in front of the Federal Building in Butte, Montana. A far cry from today's college students who spend their time destroying statues.) |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Gables Found Safe In Storm" |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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February 2, 1940: Installment #17 of "Four Years Against Hitler" from the Press and Journal. |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Wie Paris die Neutralen aufhetzt. Versteckte Drohungen sollen sie zum Krieg für die Plutokratien drängen. |
(How Paris incites the neutrals. Hidden threats are supposed to cause them to go to war for plutocracies.) |
2. Churchill belohnt einen Massenmörder. Der Kapitän der Baralong in die britische Admiralität berufen. |
(Churchill rewards a mass murderer. The captain of the Baralong is appointed to the Admiralty.) |
[The report claims that Godfrey Herbert, the former commanding officer of the Q-Ship HMS Baralong in the Great War, had been given an appointment in the Admiralty, which to the best of my knowledge is not true. He was however commanding a ship at sea. His name was as infamous in Germany as was the name Otto Weddigen in England. Herbert had attacked and sunk SMS U-27 on Aug. 19, 1915. He then had all the survivors shot by his crew. They machine-gunned the men in the water and even executed those survivors who had been taken aboard the SS Nicosian.] |
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February 2, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Heiratsordnung für die Wehrmacht. |
(Marriage rules for the Wehrmacht.) |
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Page published February 2, 2021 |
