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August 21, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column7-8: "Axe Attack On Trotsky: Grave Plight" |
(An assassin, sent by Josef Stalin, attacked Trotsky with a pickaxe. The attack occurred on Aug. 20, Trotsky died on the 21st. Leon Trotsky was one of fathers of modern communism, one of the people who helped put into practice the seductive and poisonous doctrine of Lenin and Marx. He built the Red Army and helped build the totalitarian Soviet State. His system for "the workers" is responsible for killing over 100,000,000 people and enslaving billions more. A feat which Adolf Hitler did not even come close to achieving. It is poetic justice that he should be added to the millions of dead that were killed by the monster he helped to create. The human suffering caused by Trotsky and his ilk can never be calculated, and continues to this day.) |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Steamer Attacked Off Eire" |
(The report mentions a ship named St. Patrick of 3,000 tons belonging to the Great Western Railway. The report is inaccurate, the ship was 1,922 tons belonging to Fishguard & Rosslare Railways & Harbours Co., London. The report also states there were no casualties, but official British government reports state 2 killed. The ship was lucky this time, but German aviators would send it to the bottom on June 13, 1941.) |
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August 21, 1940: Page 4 of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Premier's Cut Jargon Be Brief" |
(Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent a memo to members of the war cabinet on Aug. 9th, 1940 entitled "Brevity" the full text of the memo is published here. I find it amusing that Churchill, one of the wordiest people who ever lived, would call for others to use brevity. Well, there was a war on so...) |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 2-4: "Belief In Final Victory" |
(This is a sub-section of the overall report on the front page about Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speech the previous day. There is a paragraph in column 4 "So Much Owed By So Many To So Few" which is one of the most famous lines from the war. It was Churchill's way to show his gratitude to the men of the Royal Air Force, who had been fighting a furious battle against the Luftwaffe. The complete line is; "...never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." It was rather interesting to see how little ink the British press gave his speech at the time. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Indiana. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "No Paralysis Here Is Word" |
(The city health officer, Dr. J. C. Brown, and the county health officer, Dr. George R. Douglas, both state that there are no cases of polio in Porter County. The polio outbreak was called an epidemic at the time. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. 12000-Tonner durch Volltreffer versenkt. |
(12,000 Tonner sunk by direct hit.) |
[I don't find any record of such a shipping loss.] |
2. Munitionsfabriken, Hafen= und Werftanlagen, Flugplätz und Schiffsziele wirkungsvoll bombardiert. |
(Munitions factories, port and shipyards, airfields and shipping targets bombed effectively.) |
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August 21, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Berbera von den Italienern besetzt. |
(Berbera occupied by the Italians.) |
2. Die Niederlage der Briten in Somaliland besiegelt. |
(British defeat in Somaliland is sealed.) |
3. Italien vor der Toren Adens. |
(Italians at the gates of Aden.) |
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Page published August 21, 2021 |
