Posted on 09/18/2009 5:27:03 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/sep39/f18sep39.htm
Polish leaders flee, urging troops to fight
Monday, September 18, 1939
In Romania... The Polish president, Moscicki, and the Commander in Chief, Rydz-Smigly, enter Romania and are interned. They leave behind messages telling their troops to fight on.
In Poland... Soviet forces have advanced 100 km into Poland, meeting little resistance. The German 3rd and 10th armies begin attacking Warsaw. Members of the Polish cipher bureau, with vital knowledge of the German Enigma code, flee the country and head for Paris.
In Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm and Reykjavik... In simultaneous announcements, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland declare that they intend to continue trading with all belligerents to protect their economic existence.
In Berlin... A week after making his first broadcast to Britain, the Irish ex-Mosleyite William Joyce is given a contract with German radio.
In the North Atlantic... SS Kensington Court is shelled and sunk by a German U-boat; 2 RAF Sunderland flying boats rescue 34 men.
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1939&_f=md055374
My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt
SEPTEMBER 18, 1939
WASHINGTON, Sunday —Friday night in Danville, Va., we had only a very short time to get ready for my lecture, but Mayor Meade and his wife met us at the station and drove me straight to the hotel to change. They were both most kind. It was a great pleasure to see Governor Price also at the meeting.
The lecture was sponsored by a group of young business men called the Exchange Club. They told me they put on one entertainment a year for the benefit of an underprivileged children’s fund, the money being distributed by school teachers. They give clothing and assistance, thus enabling the children to go to school.
The war has already touched Danville. The fall in sterling and the uncertainty about shipping caused British buyers to withdraw from the tobacco market and close it down. Danville is, of course, a tobacco center and many of the people are concerned. On the other hand, the cotton manufacturers are feeling encouraged that war will bring them additional orders.
We reached Washington Saturday morning and there at the station was my brother, who had routed out of bed one or two other people to come with him to meet us. He had insisted on being there, not only when the train actually got in, but by his New York watch— which meant that they had waited an extra hour. Nothing daunted, however, he agreed to wait another three quarters of an hour and bring his guests to breakfast with me on the White House porch, which was a very pleasant beginning to a busy day.
My first press conference of the season was at eleven o’clock. Then I went to see a friend, who returned to lunch under the trees in the garden. Little Diana Hopkins is staying with us and had two small friends join us.
Several appointments in the afternoon and, after dinner, an hour and a half at the Woman’s National Democratic Club. I hope that Mrs. McAllister, chairman of the women’s division of the Democratic National Committee, will feel repaid for the work she has done on this woman’s day. It should help to make Democratic women conscious of their responsibility in government.
If women of other political faiths listened to the first part of the broadcast, I feel sure that the facts given must have been of interest to them as well.
The heat is not so great in Washington, and one of my daughters-in-law, who arrived this morning, exclaimed as we sat on the porch at breakfast: “What a beautiful day!”
For me, however, it was quickly clouded, for when I went into the President’s room, he told me that at five, and again at six, o’clock he had to be awakened to receive dispatches announcing Russia’s entry into Poland.
A curious way to aid the cause of peace!
http://timeinc8-sd11.websys.aol.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601390918,00.html
TIME, September 18, 1939
Fitting he would be on the cover the week Poland was torn apart.
The way Obama is going, this could be a headline from the future.
Agreed!
Just recently these articles have become crazily ‘real-time’.
I see by your profile you’re British, yes?
So you must have a ‘front row seat’ to the coming madness!
Thanks for posting these; they are fascinating to read.
Putin is just deciding where to apply pressure next.
0bama is making it easy for him.
That troop “ship” does not look comfortable.
I n oticed the ‘Developments in Europe’ has now become the ‘International Situation’. Very subtle.. not. Hey America, like it or not we are going to be involved in this.
I need the Miller Institute of Shorthand!!
Ah yes, the man who side with Hitler and betray Great Britain.
Let’s try this again:
The man who tried to get the United States to side with Hitler and betray the British.
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