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NAZI AIR FLEET POUNDS AT BRITAIN; R.A.F. STRIKES BACK AT FOE’S BASES (8/14/40)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library
| 8/14/40
| James MacDonald, C.L. Sulzberger, Camille Cianfarra, Frank L. Kluckhohn, Robert P. Post, P.J. Philip
Posted on 08/14/2010 5:32:51 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: History
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
And this article on page 14:
"Says Vichy Assures Jews
"No Anti-Semitic Laws Planned, Correspondent Declares
"...Mr. Herman quoted 'high officials,' whom he did not name, as stating that
'no anti-Semitic laws will ever be permitted or drawn up against Jews in France.'
"The dispatch pointed out that laws against foreigners in France were not directed against Jews as such, but that Jews who were foreigners might be affected..."
..."'The Jews can rest assured that no anti-Semitic laws will ever be adopted and that the spread of anti-Semitism will not be permitted,' the correspondent quoted officials as saying."
Whew! What a relief... Jews are safe in France.
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posted on
08/15/2010 6:17:49 AM PDT
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BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
"Walsh Calls Sale of Ships Act of War 5" Of course it was.
By 1940 the US was doing everything we could to help Britain, and prepare ourselves for war against Germany.
The official fiction that America was still somehow "neutral" could be maintained only because Hitler preferred it to the alternative.
In Hitler's mind, an America still struggling with its own conscience over getting into some "foreign war" was still vastly less effective than would be America fully committed to the destruction of Nazi Germany.
So Hitler did his best to avoid provoking the US into an official declaration of war, regardless of how much we did to support his enemy, Britain.
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08/15/2010 6:28:00 AM PDT
by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
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