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Sunday January 10, 1937

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The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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

 

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France massed troops in French Morocco and threatened to occupy the Spanish side if the Nationalists refused to quickly oust the Germans reported in the territory. France feared that Germany was building up troops there under the guise of “volunteers” in preparation for a surprise attack on French Morocco.

The Spanish government ordered an evacuation of all citizens remaining in Madrid.

Britain warned its citizens that anyone volunteering to fight for either side in the Spanish Civil War would be subject to prosecution under the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870

 

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Mahatma GANDHI (center) with Pandit Jawaharlal NEHRU, presiding over the opening of the National Hindu Congress

Flood warning are issued over the Ohio River region.

Chicago Sunday Tribune Jan 10, 1937
Chicago Sunday Tribune Jan 10, 1937
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Sunday December 27, 1936

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The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

No post today

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

 

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The Battle of Lopera began.

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United Airlines Trip 34: A United Air Lines Boeing 247 crashed into a hill south of Newhall, California during rainy weather, killing all 12 aboard.

 

 

 

The Spanish government decided to hold the Palos despite a German threat of reprisals.

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Mahatma Gandhi emerged from two years of silence to make a political speech. He cryptically said, “Show me the way and I am prepared to return to gaol. I am prepared to be hanged. If you do all I want you to do, the Viceroy will say: ‘I am wrong – I thought you people were terrorists, and if you like we Britishers will return by the next steamer.’ We would then say to Lord Linlithgow and the British: ‘India is big enough to hold you and more like you.’ That is my Swaraj.” Gandhi denied that his speech indicated that he was returning to public life.

Chicago Sunday Tribune December 27, 1936
Chicago Sunday Tribune December 27, 1936
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