World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday June 27, 1940
Day 301

June 27, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 2: "George Allen Found Doing Fifth Column Work in G.O.P."
(The democrat was discovered on the floor of the GOP convention, when asked what he was doing he said "spying on the enemy" Democrats always consider Republicans the enemy rather than an opponent.)
Also note the report in column 7: "Annenberg's Lawyer Asks Sentence Delay"


June 27, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of the Hattiesburg American, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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June 27, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Gefecht zwischen Franzosen und Briten.
(Skirmish between France and Britain.)
2. Frankreichs Vertreter für Wiesbaden.
(French representatives for Wiesbaden.)


June 27, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Die Kräfte frei gegen England!
(The forces free against England!)
2. Deutschlands und Italiens Waffenstillstandsverträge: Ausdruck der neuen Ordnung.
(Germany's and Italy's armistice treaties: expression of the new order.)



   
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