Daily Archives: October 31, 2017

Saturday October 30, 1937

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

No post today:

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

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Gen. Franco, seen at left with Gen. Franco, center, and Mussolini, right

Mussolini recalled the Italian Ambassador to France due to strained relations between the two countries over Italy’s participation in the Spanish Civil War.

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Bruno Mussolini

 

 

 

 

The British cargo ship Jean Weems was bombed and sunk by warplanes off the coast of Catalonia. A Daily Herald correspondent identified one of the pilots who sank the ship as Benito Mussolini’s son Bruno.

Service Cross of the German Eagle.pngHitler bestowed the Order of the German Eagle on Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu as a gesture of friendship between Germany and Japan.

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Nazis of the German American Bund line up and wait for start of parade

 

 

 

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker Magazine

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Image result for october 30, 1937A Halloween barn dance was held at the Tacoma Country Country & Golf Club in Tacoma, Washington

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Wearing medieval plate armor, Mr. H. Maskell opens the car door of a visitor to Tudor House in Maidstone, Kent, England.

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