[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

This headline came as a surprise to me. I always figured that the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact was a complete shock to the rest of the world, considering the supposed enmity between Nazis and Communists. I never realized the issue was discussed in popular media this early.

Another article on this thread discusses the Pact of Steel.

The renewed contacts between Berlin and Moscow did not escape the watchful eyes of the French ambassador in the German capital. As early as May 7, four days after Litvinov's dismissal, M. Coulondre was informing the French Foreign Minister that, according to information given him by a close confidant of the Fuehrer, Germany was seeking an understanding with Russia which would result in, among other things, a fourth partition of Poland. Two days later the French ambassador got off another telegram to Paris telling of new rumors in Berlin "that Germany had made, or was going to make, to Russia proposals aimed at a partition of Poland."

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

[samtheman]

Prison Term for Fur Thief

James Isaacs, 89 years old, of Rosedale, Queens, the ex-convict leader of a trio of thieves, including a young wife who were believed to have defrauded many furriers in this city while posing as customers, was sentenced yesterday by Judge Allen in General Sessions to a term in Sing Sing of ten to twenty years. On April 10, last, Alfred Quinn, 80, received a smiliar term from Judge Allen, and the latter's wife, Margaret, 21, was sentenced to an indeterminate term in the Women's Reformatory at Bedford Hills. All had been convicted in the theft of a fur coat, valued at $2,600, from the R. & R. Furriers Corporation, at 6 West Fifthy-seventh Street, last Winter.

Is it too late to get a few things clarified in this story? (In particular, a few of the numbers.)

[dfwgator]

[PAR35]

Don’t skip over the blurb about Unity Mitford. Like the rest of her family, she was a socialist, she just chose a slightly different flavor.

And, like an earlier girlfriend of Hitler, she shot herself in the head. She survived the war with German medical care (despite the horrors of the latter years of the war) but English medical care quickly finished her off after the war. (A bit of a parallel there to Patton, who survived under the care of the front line doctors, but who died shortly after the ‘experts’ from the states took over. )