World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday, November 27, 1939
Day 88

November 27, 1939: Front page of The Star, Sheffield, England.
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Note the report in column 6: "Going To Poland"
 
Also note the report at the top of column 6: "Finns Deny Shooting At Red Troops"


November 27, 1939: Front page of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, Grimsby, England.
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November 27, 1939: Front page of The Sunderland Echo and Shipping Gazette, Sunderland, England.
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Note the headline: "Dutch Passenger Liner Sunk By Nazi "Murder Mine" In Thames Estuary"
(It is interesting how the use of mines by the Germans is categorized as "Murder Mines" when the British (and later the United States) did exactly the same thing. This is a little like the British pot calling the German kettle black)


November 27, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the headline: "Only 17 Saved In Loss Of Merchant Cruiser"
(This report is about the loss of HMS Rawlipindi, an Armed Merchant Cruiser, which was converted passenger ship used for contraband patrol. The ship was sunk Nov. 23rd by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The sinking of Rawlipindi was not known to the German High Command because of a radio silence order given to the German warships.)


November 27, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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November 27, 1939: Front page of The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
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November 27, 1939: Front page of The Melbourne Argus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Note the headline at top left: "Sinking Of Nazi Raider"
(The reported sinking of the cruiser Deutschland appeared in newspapers yesterday and today. In the previous newspaper the report stated Deutschland was sunk in the South Atlantic. While at the same time in other newspaper Deutschland was credited with sinking HMS Rawlipindi in the far North Atlantic, as in the newspapers above and below. In reality Deutschland was in neither location, the cruiser had docked in Gotenhafen (Gdynia) Poland on Nov. 16th after slipping past the Royal Navy, which was actively looking for her.)
Also note the report in column 2: "Nazi Philosopher Eliminated"
(Another report of a high Nazi official, this time Alfred Rosenberg, being removed from office. Like most of the other reports, it was completely false.)


November 27, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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November 27, 1939: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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November 27, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.)
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November 27, 1939: Front page of the Dunkirk Evening Observer, Dunkirk, New York.
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Note the report in column 3: "SS Peter Kerr Sends Out SOS Call In Pacific"
(Peter Kerr survived this episode, but was sunk by German aircraft on July, 5, 1942 while in the infamous convoy PQ-17.)


November 27, 1939: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Note the report in column 5: "Kuhn Case Going To Jury Today"
(The ongoing trial of Fritz Kuhn, the so-called American Führer.)


November 27, 1939: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 5: "Communism In Schools Rapped In Dies Query"
(The report states that;
"efforts to spread communism in American colleges and universities have become so intense that funds have been supplied direct from Moscow to meet the heavy cost of propaganda."

It's a known, but completely ignored fact, that after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 the only bastion of communist thought remaining in the world was in American universities. (Communist countries notwithstanding.) This continues to this day, the fruits of their labor seen in the street riots this previous summer and the election of people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders and Warren Wilhelm Jr. (A.K.A. Bill DeBlasio) in New York City. The majority of communist money currently flowing into American universities now comes from Communist China. Even though the money comes from China, the philosophy is the same evil totalitarian philosophy created by Marx, Lenin and Stalin.)


November 27, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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November 27, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte Montana.
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November 27, 1939: Installment #16 of "Stalin Unmasked" from the San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Texas.
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Perhaps when reading this series you should consider the implication of the highlighted report in The Port Arthur News above.)


November 27, 1939: This editorial in the San Antonio Light is so relevant to what is happening today I was compelled to add this to the page.
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November 27, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Niederschmetternder Eindruck der täglich steigenden Schiffsverluste.
( Shattering impression of the daily increasing ship losses.)
2. Russisch=finnischer Grenzzwischenfall.
(Incident at the Russian-Finnish border.)



   
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