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October 24, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Portugal Bars Jews" |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report at top left: "35's To Register Next Month" |
Also note the report in column 3: "Black-Out Will Not Be Lifted" |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Ban On Silk Jumpers" |
(Not just jumpers, almost any product made with silk.) |
| [See "Save Silk for Parachutes" in the Press and Journal of Nov. 27, 1940.] |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 3-4: "Lights On Life-Jackets For Merchant Crews" |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "H. G. Wells As An Export" |
Also note the report in column 4: "Another Scary Story" |
(Apparently the announcer was looking for someone to stand up and say that they were not afraid of the bombings and demonstrate the stiff upper lip of the British, but he got a frightened German instead.) |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Last Cargo Scrap Metal Off to Japan." |
(The Greek freighter, Olga E. Embiricos, carried 7,500 tons of scrap metal to Japan before the embargo took effect. On Jan. 29, 1944 U-188 would turn Olga E. Embiricos into scrap metal on the bottom of the sea with a torpedo.) |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 7: "White House emphasizes Kennedy Will Not Resign" |
(He had resigned on Oct. 22, 1940, two days before this report was filed.) |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Embargo Placed - Mexico Acts to Halt Mercury Exports" |
(Our "friends" in Mexico would reverse this decision only a few days from now.) |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Hitlers Besprechung mit Franco In Gegenwart Ribbentrops und Suners. |
(Hitler's meeting with Franco in the presence of Ribbentrop and Suners.) |
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October 24, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Zusammenkunft des Führers mit Franco. |
(Meeting of the Führer with Franco.) |
2. Besprechung im Geist kameradschaftlicher Verbundenheit Deutschlands und Spaniens. |
(Discussion in the spirit of friendship between German and Spain.) |
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Page published October 24, 2021 |