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Tuesday December 1, 1936

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

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Bishop of Bradford Alfred Blunt

The Edward VIII abdication crisis finally came out into the open in Britain when the Bishop of Bradford Alfred Blunt, speaking at his diocesan conference about the upcoming royal coronation, said of the king that “Some of us wish that he gave more positive signs of his awareness.” The Yorkshire Post used the speech to question the king’s behaviour and the rest of the British press soon followed suit, finally breaking their policy of self-imposed censorship.

5,000 Germans landed at Cádiz to fight for Franco.

Nazi Germany passed several new laws. Membership in the Hitler Youth was made mandatory and the death penalty was introduced for those who hoarded their wealth abroad.

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The Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the conference with an address that included The More Abundant Life phrase

Chicago Daily Tribune December 1, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune December 1, 1936

Thursday October 22, 1936

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

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Drapeau de Rex.svgThe Belgian Rexist Party announced its intention to march on Brussels in a conscious imitation of Mussolini’s March on Rome in order to “sweep out the Paul van Zeeland government and its corruption” despite a government order banning the march. Van Zeeland made a national radio address that evening appealing for calm and announcing measures that amounted to martial law.

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General José Miaja Menant

General José Miaja was put in charge of the defence of Madrid.

The British press continued to tiptoe around the Edward VIII abdication crisis. London publication The News Week wrote that “the effects of the unofficial censorship have been disastrous, giving the impression abroad that there is something to hide.” The weekly publication Cavalcade, which had been running articles about the king and his friendship with Mrs. Simpson for weeks, ran a short notice of Simpson’s divorce suit and mentioned that thousands of words had been published in the United States about it. The Guardian ran an article about the possibility of the king’s coronation being postponed but avoided any direct explanation for why a postponement might take place

Image result for october 22, 1936The Mint Museum opens in North Carolina.

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune October 22, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune October 22, 1936