World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday, March 21, 1940
Day 203

March 21, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report in column 1: "Queen Mary and Mauretania Sail"
(Another irresponsible report giving the enemy valuable information on the activities two of the biggest ship in the world. The Germans did notice this, but the knowledge did them no good since they did not have any U-boats operating in the Pacific or off the east coast of the U.S.A.)


March 21, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report at top left: "R.A.F. Pilots Queued Up For Their Turn To Bomb Sylt"


March 21, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Note the report in column 4: "Colliery Explosion - 8 Killed"
(Another mine disaster.)


March 21, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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March 21, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 3: "News Spreads in Germany"
(The British propaganda about the Sylt raid was reaching the ears of the German people.)


March 21, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 21, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 21, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report at top right: "Nazis Claim 9 Ships Sunk Are Denied"
(The attack damaged 3 freighters, one of which (SS Svinta) sank while under tow. No H.M. ships had been damaged.)


March 21, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 6: "German Submarine Bases Next Target For R.A.F."
(Very kind of the western press to alert the enemy about a possible upcoming attack. This allowed the Germans to reinforce the anti-aircraft and fighter cover over the targets. A move that cost the lives of Allied airmen.)


March 21, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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March 21, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Note the report at bottom left: "Miami Beach Awaits Capone to Register as Former Felon"


March 21, 1940: Front page of the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso, Texas.
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Note the report in column 6: "Queen Mary Slips Away; Dares Subs"
(The headline writer certainly displays a lot of bravado, but of course he is safe in his office and not sailing on the ship.)


March 21, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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Note the report at top left: "Wind Makes Thousands Of Snowballs in Playful Reception for Chilly Spring"


March 21, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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Note the report in column 4: "Photographer Hit By Streamliner"
(23 year-old Thomas Dardin got the photo, but lost his life. Even before instagram and snapchat caused people to do stupid things and lose their lives to get a photo, people were doing stupid things and losing their lives to get a photo. People never change.)


March 21, 1940: Installment #16 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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As we have, in Washington D.C. only one political party in charge of all three branches of government, since the president is ruling by executive order, with no input from the congress and since these same people seem to be determined to cause as much havoc and chaos as possible to the United States (anti-police laws, an open southern border, a Director of Homeland Security, Sr. Alejandro Mayorkas, who recently said to the throngs of people illegally coming across the southern border "we are NOT saying don't come, we ARE saying just don't come now." Since the left is and has been using class warfare and race warfare to divide the people of this country, this passage from The Story of Democracy is extremely relevant to today's situation.

"There was a prolonged struggle between the rich and the poor. This led to an era of anarchy until the complete suspension of all law and order made the people say, "Anything will be better than the present state of chaos!" and made them eager to accept that dictatorship which then led to the establishment of an imperial form of government.

That empire in turn perished because NO COUNTRY CAN HOPE TO SURVIVE UNLESS IT HAS A RESERVE OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE AN ACTUAL INTEREST IN KEEPING THEIR COMMON COUNTRY GOING. Imperial Rome allowed that reserve to die out. After that it was only a question of time when Rome would cease to exist. The came the deluge known as the Dark Ages. And for 500 years Democracy disappeared as if it had never existed."

Another way to say this is create as much chaos as possible, then tell the people that you (the creators of the chaos) are the only people who can fix the problem. There is no doubt that the U.S.A. is in the first phase of that statement, they ARE creating chaos, one wonders what they will do next.


March 21, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Neuer deutscher Schlag vor Scapa Flow.
(New German attack against Scapa Flow.)


March 21, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Luftwaffe zersprengte Geleitzug: 9 Schiffe mit 42 000 BRT versenkt.
(Luftwaffe blows up convoy: 9 shps for 42,000 tons of shipping sunk.)
[This was just German propaganda.The attack damaged 3 freighters, one of which (SS Svinta) sank while under tow. No H.M. ships had been damaged.]



   
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