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February 11, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Over the wireless: CBS News of the World for Feb. 11, 1942. |
February 11, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Libya Tank Officer Wins V.C." |
(Lt. Philip John Gardner, M.C. is awarded the Victoria Cross.) |
February 11, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Nazis Impose Curfew On Jews In France" |
Also note the report in column 7: "Ingalls Trial Witness Says She Gave $150 To Aviatrix for Nazis" |
(Laura Ingalls, not to be confused with the author Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie fame, was a famous aviatrix and Nazi agent operating with the Gestapo in the U.S.A. She infiltrated the America First Committee, of which Charles Lindbergh was a member, and gave several pro-Nazi, anti-intervention speeches for the committee. She was arrested in Dec. 1941 for failing to register as a paid foreign agent and served 20 months in prison. After being released she continued to spread pro-Nazi propaganda being arrested again in in July of 1944 while trying to enter Mexico carrying seditious material. She was not prosecuted in this event. She died in 1967.) |
February 11, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. U-Boote versenkten im Atlantik acht Schiffe, eine Korvette mit 50 500 BRT. |
(U-boats sank eight ships in the Atlantic, one corvette with 50,500 GRT.) |
2. Churchills Endziel: Berlin zukünftiger Sitz der Bolschewisten-Regierung. |
(Churchill's ultimate goal: Berlin, future seat of the Bolshevik government.) |
February 11, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Was England in Moskau versprach Berlin-Stalins Regierungssitz - Cripps gibt offen die Verschacherung. |
(What England promised in Moscow Berlin-Stalin's seat of government - Cripps is openly bartering.) |
[This may refer to an address given by Sir Stafford Cripps on Feb. 9, 1942. It is important to remember that when Cripps speaks well of Russia, that he was a Marxist/socialist.] |
2. Über 50.000 BRT. im Atlantik versenkt. |
(Over 50,000 GRT sunk in the Atlantic.) |
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