World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, January 23, 1940
Day 145

January 23, 1940: Front page of The Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report at top right: "Nazi Martyrdom Of Poland"
(More disturbing details of what the Nazis were doing in Poland.)
Also note the report at top left: "Boys In Crew Never At Sea Before"
[More about Admiral Graf Spee here.]
Also note the report in column 5: "Horse Helps In Rescue"


January 23, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Germany Martyring Poland"


January 23, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 2: "Russian Wounded Allowed To Die"
(If the report is true, it shows in stark terms the failure of the communist state to provide medical services and just how disposable human beings are to the communists.)
Also note the report in column 3: "Pillaged Poles Face Death By Starvation"


January 23, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 4: "Rawalpindi Men Prisoners"
[More about HMS Rawalpindi here.]


January 23, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 2: "British Destroy Two U-boats"
(In fact no U-boats had been sunk in January of 1940 as of this date.)


January 23, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 7: "N.Z. To Start Rationing Petrol Soon"


January 23, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report at top right: "G.B., French Firms Not To Sell Nazis Oil"


January 23, 1940: Front page of CZAS Polish Times, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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January 23, 1940: Front page of the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso, Texas.
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Note the report in column 4: "Japan Put On Good Behavior By Washington"


January 23, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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Note the report at bottom center: New York Janitor Shoots Himself Three Times, Then Throws Gun Away in Disgust"
(This report goes in the category of, as the late, great Paul Harvey would say, "here is a strange.")


January 23, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana.
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January 23, 1940: Front page of The Vidette-Messanger, Valparaiso, Indiana.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Negroes Picket Premier Of Abraham Lincoln Movie"
(The movie premier was attended by a number of high ranking government officials, including the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The most profound part of the report is in the last paragraphs. "German theatres bar Jews, Washington theatres bar Negroes. Negroes are barred from this theatre. Negro citizens may not see this picture of the Great Emancipator." They were exactly correct. Mrs. Roosevelt was asked what she thought of the demonstrators and replied "I think it is particularly tragic that the people whom Lincoln freed should not be allowed to see the show about him."

This is a disgraceful reminder of what happens when the Constitution is discarded. This terrible discrimination is not allowed under the Constitution of the United States, but when people decide to ignore the Constitution, this is the outcome. It also shows that even "Negro" demonstrators in the U.S.A. were somewhat aware of what was happening to the Jews in Germany.)


January 23, 1940: Installment #8 of "Four Years Against HItler" from the Press and Journal.
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January 23, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Sorgen und Beklemmungen in Endland. Neue englische Stimme, die um die Hilfe der Neutralen winselt.
(Worries and anxieties in England. England's new voice begging for help from neutral countries.)


January 23, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Die Brandkatastrophe der Orazio. Italienischer Passagierdampfer vernichtet.
(The catastrophic fire on the Orazio. Italian passenger steamer destroyed.)



   
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