[Homer_J_Simpson]

Here is another installment of one of the less popular continuing stories on these threads (along with the war in China). I wonder if the civil war sold many papers in 1938-39 or did the Times just give it such extensive coverage for political purposes. It seems from the sidebar stories that there was great popular sentiment in the U.S. on the side of the Spanish government. I wonder if that is true.

I'll bet developments in Poland will begin to generate some interest here:

"[O]n January 25 Ribbentrop was at Warsaw to continue the diplomatic offensive against Poland. The absorption of Czechoslovakia was to be followed by the encirclement of Poland. The first stage in this operation would be the cutting off of Poland from the sea by the assertion of German sovereignty in Danzig and by the prolongation of the German control of the Baltic to the vital Lithuanian port of Memel. The Polish Government displayed strong resistance to this pressure, and for a while Hitler watched and waited for the campaigning season."

Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, p. 306

[snippy_about_it]

I’ve been biding my time waiting for the news of Poland. We know it well and I am very interested in what was being said in the U.S. at that time. From 1939 to the Warsaw uprising in 44. Of course that means you’ll have to post these for the next 5 years. :-)

[CougarGA7]

I find it interesting. And the war on China is particualrly interesting since all the things taking place now are setting a stage for what most here will find extremely interesting.

Reading this article shows that the Loyalists are truely in the death throws of their fight. Once Bacelona falls that will eliminate any access to sea ports and any potential supplies, and they are hemmed in on land. I suppose the only saving grace here is that in the end the Spanish and Franco will not be as accomodating to Hitler as he could have been.