Daily Archives: December 19, 2015

Thursday December 19, 1935

(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

No post today:

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

America talks about social security.

Labour Party leader Clement Attlee brought a motion of censure against the government of Stanley Baldwin, explaining, “If it is right for (Samuel Hoare) to resign, then it is right for the Government to resign.” Baldwin stood and took chief responsibility for the Hoare–Laval debacle, and declared that the proposals were “absolutely and completely dead” and that the government would “make no attempt to resurrect them.” Attlee’s motion was defeated, 397 to 165.

Chicago Daily Tribune Dec 19, 1935
Chicago Daily Tribune Dec 19, 1935

Shanghai students demonstrate, calling for resistance to Japanese aggression

http://www.earnshaw.com/shanghai-ed-india/tales/t-demo.htm

Shanghai students demonstrate, calling for resistance to Japanese aggression