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Monday October 4, 1937

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

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A submarine of unknown nationality fired a torpedo at the British destroyer HMS Basilisk as it patrolled the Mediterranean, the first such attack since the Nyon agreement went into effect. The torpedo missed its target and the Basilisk countered by dropping depth charges, to unknown effect.

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Kosher butchers picket outside a shop in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood on Orchard Street in New York’s Lower East Side

 

 

 

AFL-CIO William Green is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Sunday October 3, 1937

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

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Thousands of members of the British Union of Fascists marched through the London district of Bermondsey to mark the fifth anniversary of the organization’s founding. Anti-fascists jeered and threw eggs, bricks and other objects as 3,000 police fought to maintain order. Over 100 arrests were made.

 

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