World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Sunday July 21, 1940
Day 325

July 21, 1940: Front page of The People, London, England.
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July 21, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England.
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July 21, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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July 21, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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July 21, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the headline: "H.M.A.S. Sydney Victorious In Three Hours Battle"
[The report is concluded here.]


July 21, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 2: "Hitler Bars Mutual Radio Because Coast Cut Speech"
(Hitler's tit for tat.)
[See "Hitler Banned On U.S. Radio Chain" in the Nottingham Evening Post of July 20, 1940.]


July 21, 1940: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia.
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Note the report in column 1: "22 Deaths Laid To Worst Heat Wave of Year"
[The report is concluded here.]


July 21, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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July 21, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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July 21, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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July 21, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan.
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July 21, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana.
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July 21, 1940: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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July 21, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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Note the report in column 7: "Drugs Seized"
(17 Pounds of Japanese cocaine found aboard the freighter Nanman Maru at San Francisco. That ship would be sunk on Oct. 28, 1943 by Commander Glynn R. Donaho and USS Flying Fish SS-229.)


July 21, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Churchill fordert das Schicksal heraus.
(Churchill challenges fate.)
2. Wie der Führer voraussah: Hohn und Verachtung der Kriegsverbrecher aus London.
(As the Führer foresaw: scorn and contempt from the war criminals in London.)



   
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