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Tuesday October 20, 1936

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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

Dad came on the way to the conference.   Ate supper at Martens.  Played “Politics” Visited at Burdette’s – Dad stayed there all night

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King Edward and his party, including Mrs. Ernest Simpson,  disembarked from his chartered yacht at Rab, Yugoslavia after a vacation cruise.

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Galeazzo Ciano01.jpgItalian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano arrived in Berlin for official talks with Germany

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Reinhard Heydrich arrived in Rome, Italy visit the tomb of the unknown soldier . He was also with other German Police officials to celebrate the anniversary of Rome’s police corps

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Today in motorcycle history

108 Norton WD16H 490cc side valve, single-cylinder motorcycles are prepared to be shipped to the Royal Army

Chicago Daily Tribune October 20, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune October 20, 1936

 

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Friday October 16, 1936

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

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The Siege of Oviedo ended in Nationalist victory.

Newspaper proprieter Lord Beaverbrook called on King Edward VIII and declared he would help enforce a voluntary media blackout on the king’s relationship with Mrs. Simpson.

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Rumors of King Edward’s relationship with Mrs. Simpson spread throughout England as the odds of Edward actually marrying her began to be weighed in the foreign press.American newspapers began disappearing from British newsstands without explanation. However, foreign magazines delivered to subscribers through the mail were arriving untouched.

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Paris went dark for one hour starting at 9:30 p.m. so a mock bombing raid could be conducted

Chicago Daily Tribune October 16, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune October 16, 1936
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