Daily Archives: September 20, 2017

Monday September 20, 1937

September 20, 2017PostsAnthony Eden, Dictaphone, league of nations, WallaceShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster diary 2

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Anthony Eden spoke at the League of Nations Assembly, telling Italy and Japan they were ruining themselves financially by their policies of territorial conquest and informing Germany that the way to obtain raw materials was to buy them instead of demanding colonies.

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Spain failed to get the two-thirds majority it needed to get re-elected onto the League of Nations council. The Latin American countries no longer supported the Spanish Republic because they had shifted their support to Franco.

Mitchell Hepburn is on the Cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Henry A. Wallace, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, using a Dictaphone

Sunday September 19, 1937

September 20, 2017PostsAirshow, escape, Folsom, Hank Greenberg, Hockey, Italy, ShanghaiShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster diary 2

Polly and Rosamond came up

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The Folsom escape attempt occurred. Two of the seven prisoners trying to escape were shot dead; the other five were sentenced to death and eventually executed.

Image result for september 19, 1937 Tigers’ first baseman Hank Greenberg becomes the first player to hit a homer into the center field bleachers at Yankee Stadium.

Hockey Club Ambrì-Piotta was founded in Switzerland.

Military Airshow in Aspern Vienna

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U.S. Marines Arriving in Shanghai Aboard USS Chaumont

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Saturday September 18, 1937

September 20, 2017PostsAlliance of Democrats, B-18, Juan Negrin, Sailboat racesShanna Vicker

diary 2 The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster

Went to Martens shopped for hats.

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

Spanish Prime Minister Juan Negrín spoke before the Assembly at the League of Nations, calling the Spanish Civil War “a war of invasion” and denouncing Hitler and Mussolini as “international highwaymen.” Negrín called on the League to recognize German and Italian aggression, give the Republic the right to freely procure war materiel and have all foreign combatants withdrawn from Spanish territory.

The Alliance of Democrats formed in Poland.