HITLER TELLS ALLIES IT IS HIS PEACE OR A FINISH FIGHT (9/20/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 9/20/39 | Otto D. Tolischus

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

“Tonight the press talks openly of peace,” I noted in my diary September 20. “All the Germans I’ve talked to today are dead sure we shall have peace within a month. They are in high spirits.

The afternoon before at the ornate Guild Hall in Danzig I had heard Hitler make his first speech since his Reichstag address of September 1 started off the war. Though he was in a rage because he had been balked from making this speech at Warsaw, whose garrison still gallantly held out, and dripped venom every time he mentioned Great Britain, he made a slight gesture toward peace. “I have no war aims against Britain and France,” he said. “My sympathies are with the French poilu. What he is fighting for he does not know.” And he called upon the Almighty, “who now has blessed our arms, to give other peoples comprehension of how useless this war will be . . . and to cause reflection on the blessings of peace.”

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Chopin’s Polonaise in A, Op.40 No.1, ' Military '

[abb]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/sep39/f20sep39.htm

RAF meets Luftwaffe in battle

Wednesday, September 20, 1939

On the Western Front... For the first time, RAF and Luftwaffe aircraft engage when a flight of German Me109 fighters attack 3 Fairey Battle reconnaissance bombers over the Siegfried Line, over Aachen; 1 Me109 and 2 Battles are shot down.

From London... Britain and France vow to keep fighting in response to recent peace offerings by Hitler. They declare that the Allies “will not permit a Hitler victory to condemn the world to slavery and to ruin all moral values and destroy liberty.” Meanwhile, the British Conservative Party government, under the leadership of Neville Chamberlain, is denounced by the Labour Party opposition, in the House of Commons, for failing to help Poland enough against the German and Soviet invaders.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

How many people have been killed by those trying to impose their view of “peace” on the world?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Awkward-sounding headline ping.

The International Situation - 2
Fuehrer at Danzig - 2-4
Incidents in European Conflict - 3
Survey Shows War Cuts Party Lines - 4
Russians Push on Rapidly in Poland - 5-7
1,000,000 in Warsaw Defy Nazi Bombing - 8-9

[TheBattman]

Thanks for posting!

[abb]

http://www.feldgrau.com/september.html

September 20, 1939: German troops in eastern Poland withdraw to the line agreed upon in the German-Soviet treaty of August 26, 1939. The Red Army moves in behind them to occupy the formerly Russian territory.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Amusing ad from the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn. $9.50/week with a gym, and steam room and salt water pool, and ‘gay social events’ (how the language does change). At that time in NYC a subway ride was 5 cents. Inflation is a bear, for sure.

[Larry Lucido]

Is Chamberlain available? We need another agreement.

[Larry Lucido]

I remember riding the NY subways in 1970 or so for 20 cents. Guess even that was a big leap from 5 cents though.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

denounced by the Labour Party opposition, in the House of Commons, for failing to help Poland enough against the German and Soviet invaders.

Labour was still pro-war, even after the Soviet Nazi alliance, interesting.

[abb]

http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1939&_f=md055376

SEPTEMBER 20, 1939

My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I haven’t ridden the subways for decades. Think the use the computerized ticket system now. Must be over $2/ride, was already well over a dollar decades ago.

[abb]

http://www.uboat.net/boats/u27.htm

U-27

Sunk 20 Sept, 1939 west of Scotland, in position 58.35N, 09.02W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Fortune and HMS Forester. 38 survivors (No casualties).

[fso301]

All my life I grew up hearing how Republicans were the opposition to US entry into WWII.

READ THE SURVEY RESULTS ON PAGE 5

[fso301]

All my life I grew up hearing how Republicans were the opposition to US entry into WWII.

READ THE SURVEY RESULTS ON PAGE 4

[abb]

IIRC, if there had been vote in the US House on Dec 6, 1941 for a declaration of war, it would have lost by a significant margin.