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October 4, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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October 4, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "New Medal for Nazi Navy" |
(Großadmiral Erich Raeder announces the new badges for service in minesweepers and submarine-chasers.) |
October 4, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Italian Warship Destroyed" |
(The unnamed destroyer was the Palestro.) |
October 4, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Canadian Destroyer Sinks 6 U-Boats" |
(If this were true, HMCS Restigouche, would be the most famous destroyer in history. The actual number of U-Boats sunk by this ship was zero.) |
Also note the report in column 6: "H.M. Yacht Sappho Lost" |
(Some wreckage from the yacht was found in St. Austell's Bay in Cornwall, but the cause of the loss of the yacht and all thirty-two men who were in her has never been determined.) |
October 4, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 4, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in columns 5-7: "H. G. Wells Sees Nazis Facing Suicide Mirage Leading to End in Muddled European Politics" |
[The report is concluded here. Note on this page the report at top right "First Anti-Jew Move Made in Netherlands"] |
October 4, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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(Click below for part twenty-three of "Our Country" a twenty-four part series, written by twenty-four different authors, describing what America means to them. Today's piece was written by Stewart Edward White.) |
October 4, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota. |
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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October 4, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Führer und Duce am Brenner. |
(Führer and Duce at the Brenner.) |
October 4, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Der Fußtritt für Chamberlain. |
(The kick for Chamberlain.) |
2. Vom Kriegserklärer zum Sündenbock der Churchill=Pleite. |
(From the declaration of war to Churchill's scapegoat - bankruptcy.) |
Page published October 4, 2021 |