Hitler in 1939 seeks peace while war drums beat anew
A retrospective contrasts past German quick victories with Hitler's 1939 call for a peace whose terms would avoid a Western war. Berlin radios push calls for armistice while Daladier and Chamberlain respond that German peace would demand concessions and security guarantees. Allied lines stiffen as German forces clash with France and Britain on multiple fronts, with sea and air engagements escalating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Germany
France
Britain
Europe
Russia
Balkans
Poland
Hitler
Uehrer
Moscow
Rome
London
Chamberlain
Fuehrer
Ormany
Baltic Republics Rise From War to New Nations
The article outlines four Baltic states Finland Estonia Latvia and Lithuania emerging as independent republics after World War I. It details each country's size population key exports and ports, plus postwar German Soviet and Japanese influence and recent troop movements around Helsinki and Tallinn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltic Sea
Russia
Finland
Montana
Chicago
Helsinki
Paavo Nurmi
Jan Sibelius
Europe
Aaland
Estonia
Gulf of Finland
Vermont
New Hampshire
Los Angeles
Tallinn
Latvia
West Virginia
Philadelphia
Riga
Lithuania
Poland
Germany
East Prussia
Maryland
Massachusetts
U. S
New York
Years Ago This Week 1914 World War Headlines
In the week ended Oct 14 1914 Antwerp endured ten days of German bombardment as Belgian forces retreated toward the fields of Flanders. Trench warfare raged on the Western Front while in the East Germans claimed parts of western Poland and Russians held Warsaw. Romania mourned King Carol and tilted toward the Allies. Russia urged Turkey to open the Dardanelles for commerce. The Boston Braves swept the Athletics in four straight World Series games.
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Bismarck
Prussia
Austria
France
Paris
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Memel
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Moscow
Berlin
Baltic East
Wilno
Russia
Helsinki
Kremlin
Antwerp
Onte
Flanders
Ostend
Warsaw
Romania
Carol
Turkey
Dardanelles
Boston Braves
Connie Mack
Philadelphia Athletics
U. S
Cobh
Ireland
White House
Erich Raeder
Athenia
Britain
Raeder
Roosevelt
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Short Short Stories Probed by Hoover and Other World Events
Reports probe sabotage on the U S battleship Arizona. Four tobacco firms face FTC charges of illegal price discrimination. Yankees win their fourth straight World Series over the Reds. Embezzlement case ends with a bishop’s prison term. another clergyman is sentenced to death for murder. Grand jurors cleared. a Georgia fugitive is recaptured in Texas. Obituaries note Count von Bernstorff and other notable figures.
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J. Edgar Hoover
U. S
Arizona
Federal Trade Commission
New York Yankees
Cincinnati Reds
Hayward S. Ablewhite
Michigan
Walter Dworecki
Camden
N. J
New Orleans
Richard Gallogly
Georgia
Texas
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff
Washington
Harvey W. Cushing
Samuel E. Hoyt
Amateur Athletic Union
Robert G. Elliott
Germans Resettle Across Eastern Europe Under Nazi Plan
The Reichstag speech outlines a wide posterity driven resettlement as Nazi ships reach Tallinn and Riga to repatriate Germans from Estonia and Latvia. Discussions on moving Germans from Lithuania and settling many in western Poland are noted alongside the idea of a residual Polish state.
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Rhine
Hitler
Europe
Fuehrer
Tallinn
Riga
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Kentucky’s Happy Chandler Accepts Senate Appointment
In a dramatic political move, Albert Benjamin Chandler resigns as governor at 41, accepts a Senate appointment to fill M. M. Logan’s seat after Barkley’s failed bid, and pledges to uphold the President’s hand. He commissions 60 Kentucky colonels and terms his action an umbrella of appeasement. Keen Johnson names him to the seat and Barkley’s death created the vacancy.
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Kentucky
Albert Benjamin
Happy) Chandler
Alben Barkley
U. S. Senate
Barkley
Keen Johnson
Senate
M. M. Logan
Happy
Columbus bungler and Mayan myths in explorers lore
A Tulane expert argues Columbus missed a supreme opportunity on his fourth voyage and instead found natives in a canoe near Honduras whom he misread as Mayan citizens. The piece also notes Anthony Fokker’s yacht venture burnt in the Hudson, and previews a Theodore Roosevelt medal for George Washington Carver on Oct 27.
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Christopher Columbus
America
Tulane University
Franz Blom
Columbus
Honduras
Blom
Greece
Europe
Anthony Fokker
Yonkers
N. Y
Hudson River
Niagara Falls
Old South
George Washington Carver
Dr. Carver
Theodore Roosevelt
Labor and political turmoil swirl in early 1940s notices
Across Washington Cincinnati and San Francisco CIO AFL clashes unfold over bargaining power and policy. Roosevelt calls for labor peace while unions press for act revisions and neutrality. News notes include Iroquois rescue efforts and a rabbit and mouse bite anecdote.
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Washington
NLRB
CIO
AFL
Supreme Court
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Peskiesz
Teamsters Union
Brewery Workers Union
Teamsters
BWU
San Francisco
John L. Lewis
Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt urged to mediate as war talks intensify
The editorial notes President Roosevelt faces pressure from senators and foreign voices to mediate European tensions. It recounts past offers to Germany and Poland, Senate moves on neutrality, and checks on possible mediation without London and Paris approval. It also outlines U S army and air force readiness, and upcoming winter maneuvers signaling a stronger war posture.
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North Dakota
Gerald P. Nye
Berlin
Washington
Wiseacres
London
Paris
Germany
Hitler
Fuehrer
FDR
America
Poland
Senate
Colorado
Edwin Johnson
California
Hiram
Chamber
Roosevelt
Europe
New Hampshire
Tobey
U. S
Downey
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
Pacific
New York
Wagner
National events and shows listed for October weekend
The notice lists events across cities: National auto show in New York on Sunday October 15, American Royal Livestock and Horse Show in Kansas City, Mississippi Valley Association meeting in St Louis, John Brown raid anniversary observance on Monday October 16, clinical congress in Philadelphia, eighteenth century music festival in Williamsburg starting October 19, and National Federation of Men's Bible Classes in New York on October 20.
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New York
American Royal Livestock and Horse Show
Kansasity
Mississippi Valley Association
St. Louis
John Brown
Arper
Clinical Congress of American Olan of Surgeons
Philadelphia
Williamsburg
Variday
National Federation of Men’s Bible Classes
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Daladier
Gamelin
Am Siegfried Line
Moselleiver
Saarbruecken
Nbers
North Sea
Norway
Baltic
Japan
China
Changsha
Uitler
Jon Tuc
DiPlomatie
Luis
Mergen
Miami Daily News
Hungerford
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Elderman
Washington Post
Kiddies
Baltimore Sun
Die Wacht Am Rhein
Italy
Yugoslavia
Rumania
Chandler
Streamliner
National Industrial Conference Board
Wall Street
Stuart Chase
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Heodore Roosevelt
National Guard
War Department
High Command
Fort Benning
Air Force
Jacob E. Fickel
March Field
Calif
Society of Automotive Engineers
United States
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