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Wednesday November 17, 1937

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

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

1st Earl of Halifax 1947.jpgBritish cabinet minister Lord Halifax arrived in Germany for talks with Nazi officials.

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Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine married Margaret-Campbell Geddes, daughter of Auckland Geddes, in London. The bride wore black because of the previous day’s plane crash deaths of the Duke and Duchess of Hesse and other relatives.

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