NAZI PLANES ATTACK CONVOY, 4 DOWNED (10/22/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 10/22/39 | Robert P. Post, Russell Owen, Hanson W. Baldwin

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Bringbackthedraft]

Five hundred-or-so fortunate New Yorkers who owned television sets witnessed the game in the comfort of their own homes .............................. Gathered around their 6” screens with huge magnifying lenses?

[CougarGA7]

Now that is very interesting. And I’d bet Skip Walz did a far better job announcing it than Chris Collingsworth does.

[BroJoeK]

Three excellent quotes:

PROBLEM: "The war will come to an end some day, and those of us who are realistic know that in its wake the world will face a refugee problem of different character and of infinitely greater magnitude." -- President Roosevelt

UNINVOLVED: "Conscious of the duties proper to our office as supreme pastor, we will not, without its being requested of us, let our action, always directed toward the salvation of souls, become involved in purely temporal controversies of territorial competitions between States." -- Pope Pius XII

SAVAGERY: "This bombing from the air and use of poison gas on civilians means that the world has gone back to savagery." -- Herbert Hoover

History's judgment is that both President and Pope were too naive. Hoover, probably without realizing it, was eerily prescient.