[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

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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.

[abb]

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

SEPTEMBER 20, 1939

My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt

[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).