[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

[PAR35]

Rough adjustment for inflation of that $200 air fare would come out to about $2,699.95 70 years later. While coach is somewhat cheaper today, he seems to be describing business class. If you subtract out the taxes and fees, he wasn’t very far off.

[BroJoeK]

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December 2, 1943:

• "100 Jews from Vienna arrive at Auschwitz."

"Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (left) converses with U.S. Representative Sol Bloom of New York during a hearing of the House Foreign Relations Committee.
Wise's tireless efforts on behalf of European Jewry brought little relief for his persecuted brethren.
At this December 1943 hearing, Rabbi Wise reiterated a six-point program that he had introduced eight months earlier at the Bermuda Conference.
Those points called upon Britain to open Palestine to Jewish immigration.
British opposition prevented the idea from ever being seriously considered."

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[Charlemagne on the Fox]

Thanks, Homer. Great read. Don’t miss the filler items on page 4 concerning Taft’s comments on the sending of 50,000 Roosevelt buttons to the Arabs and another noting that Cairo had run out of Scotch Whiskey upon Churchill’s arrival (wearing a ten gallon hat . . .). You can’t make this stuff up.

[fso301]

There are a number of interesting articles today. One thing in that p10 article about Col. Elliot Cutler's experience in Russia was his citing 2,000 Bolsheviks controlling 300,000,000 million Russians. I knew the Bolsheviks were a relatively small well organized minority but I suspect a 1917 figure of 2,000 was too low.