World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday November 8, 1940
Day 435

November 8, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 5: "I'm Coming Back"
(Whatever reason caused him to make this statement, he was no longer the Ambassador as of Oct. 22, 1940.)


November 8, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 5 :"Nazis Say Convoy Destroyed"
(The absurd claim that an entire convoy had been destroyed was just more propaganda. However, a major attack had been successful against convoy HX-84 by the cruiser Admiral Scheer. While the whole convoy was nowhere near destroyed, six ships were lost in a single attack.)
[More about HMS Jervis Bay here.]


November 8, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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November 8, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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November 8, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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November 8, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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November 8, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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November 8, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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November 8, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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November 8, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 7: "Hitler Will Speak Today"
(The Associated Press filed another report later in the day stating that Hitler had called off the speech, but that word of this did not reach NBC until 23 minutes after the broadcast was to begin. The cancellation may have been due to an R.A.F. air raid on Munich that coincided with Hitler's address.)
 
Also note the report in column 6: Kennedy Says He's Still On the Job"
Also note the report in column 8: "3 Communists Plead Guilty"
(Perhaps the headline writer was not paying attention to the report. The first sentence says "Three members of the Communist party pleaded innocent today..." Nowhere in the report does it say they pleaded guilty to anything. Take special notice in the conclusion of the report of the list of U.S. colleges that already had communist organizations within them in 1940. Also note that one of the three communists, Dr. Albert Blumberg, of Baltimore, had been employed as an instructor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins from 1930 to 1937. (I wonder what his philosophy is exactly?) I have contended before on these pages that the communists have been teaching poison to our children for decades, here is one small report that just shines a tiny light on the problem in one state. It was one of the other communists, Thomas F. P. O'Dea from Boston, who provided the list of colleges, just in Massachusetts, which had active communist organizations. The list includes, Harvard, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts State, Boston University, Amherst and Radcliffe. Now, eighty-one years later, all you have to do is watch the left-wing media or listen to anyone in the democrat party to see the outcome of over eighty years of communist professors at U.S. colleges. I would point to Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and too many others to mention as prime examples of what a communist college education produces.)
 
Also note the report in columns 7-8: "Brother and Sister Bombed to Death"
[The report is concluded here.]
(Seems like explosives was a popular way of killing people back in the 1940's.)


November 8, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in columns 5-7: "Last Man on Bridge Describes Its Collapse"


November 8, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 2: "Sinking Ship Pleads For Aid"
(The SS Empire Dorado had been in collision with SS Theomitor while in convoy SC-53. She sank in tow on Nov. 21, apparently there were no deaths.)


November 8, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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November 8, 1940: Front page of The SOuthern Jewish Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida.
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Note the report at top right: "Jews Who entered Rumania After 1919 to Be Expelled"


November 8, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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November 8, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Note the headline: "U.S.-England-Bound Convoy Wiped Out"
(As usual the Lowell Sun will have a large, over-the-top headline.)


November 8, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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November 8, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. 86 000 BRT auf einen Hieb!
(86,000 GRT in one fell swoop!)
[This is the German version of the attack on convoy HX-84.]
 
2. Großerfolg der Kriegsmarine im Atlantik
(Great success of the Kriegsmarine in the Atlantic.)


November 8, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Des Führers Wiener Lehrjahre - eine bleibende Verpflichtung.
(The Führer's Viennese apprenticeship - a permanent obligation.)
2. Die Reichsminister Rust, Dr. Todt, Dorpmüller und Reichsleiter von Schirach bei der 125-Jahr-Feier der Wiener Technischen Hochschule.
(The Reichsminister Rust, Dr. Todt, Dorpmüller and Reichsleiter von Schirach at the 125th anniversary of the Vienna Technical University.)



   
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