World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Sunday July 7, 1940
Day 311

July 7, 1940: Front page of The People, London, England.
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July 7, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England.
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July 7, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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July 7, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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July 7, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C.
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July 7, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Note the photo at top: "World's Largest Submarine Seized By British"
Also note the report in column 7: "Rumania Begins Drive On Jews"
(Still think that nobody knew?)
Also note the report in column 1: "F.B.I. Probes DuPont-Ethyl Plant Affair"
(Looking into the bomb plot aimed at the DuPont plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.)


July 7, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Note the report in column 6: "Another Bomb At Fair Turns Out to be Dud"
(An unattended package left at the British pavilion at the New York World's Fair spooked people, because there had been a bo,b placed there a few days earlier. There had also been a telephone death threat made against the British pavilion.)
 
Also note the report at bottom right: "Youth Confesses Hammer Killings"
[See "Boy, 19, Kills His Brother And Sister" in The Evening Gazette of July 6, 1940.]
(Another example of the epidemic of "hammer violence" which plagued the U.S.A. at that time.)


July 7, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 1: "Rumania Begins Purge Of Jews"
(Notice the use of the word "purge" which clearly denotes extermination. Still think that nobody knew?)
Also note the report in column 7: "Jews Are Flayed By New Rumanian Chief"
(When the leader of the nation declares that you are a target, who are you supposed to turn to for help? Notice he, Girutu, uses the words "never forget," this is of course what the Jews who survived the Holocaust have said for decades.)


July 7, 1940: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Note the report in column 3: "Yanks Arrest Jap Officers"
(15 Japanese gendarme officers, dressed in plain-clothes, were arrested for violating an agreement not to enter the area. They were to be held until Japan apologized.)
 
 
 
 
 
Also note the report in column 6: "Fatal Duel In Airship Over Los Angeles"
(As the late, great Paul Harvey would say "Here is a Strange." Apparently a young man hired an aircraft for a ride over the ocean with the intention of committing suicide. He succeeded.


July 7, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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July 7, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Berlin empfing den siegreichen Führer.
(Berlin receives the victorious Führer.)
2. Das deutsche Volk mit dem Herzen in der Reichshauptstadt.
(The German people with their hearts in the capitol of the Reich.)
3. Millionen dankten dem Vollstrecker ihres Rechtes.
(Millions thanked him as executor of their rights.)


July 7, 1940: Propaganda photos of Hitler from an inside page of the Völkischer Beobachter.
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1. Der Weg des Führers
(The way of the Führer.)
2. Der Oberste Befehlshaber der beste Kamerad.
(The supreme leader is the best comrade.)
 
3. Zurück nach Berlin.
(Back in Berlin.)



   
Page published July 7, 2021