Daily Mirror dated Tuesday September 27th
1938
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On September 12th 1938 Adolf Hitler gave a speech
in which he demanded the return of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. On the
15th the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew to Berlin
for talks with Hitler, but couldn’t resolve the crisis. They had further
meetings on the 18th and 22nd. On September 29th
Chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini and the French President Daladier met in Munich
and decided, without consulting the Czech government, that the country should
be partitioned and Hitler should have control of Sudetenland. Chamberlain
arrived back at Heston aerodrome with his piece of paper and ‘peace in our
time’ speech. War had been averted – for the time being.
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Roosevelt did what he could to help avert a European war
despite the overwhelming isolationist views of the majority of Americans. They
were quite willing to supply arms and food to England but did not want any ‘on
the ground’ involvement until Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in December 1941.
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Read with hindsight this is a terrible story of
a Polish Jew being deported back to almost certain death, but at the time the
general public in Britain were generally xenophobic and to some degree
anti-Semitic. It should also be remembered that they didn’t really know at this
time what was going on in the concentration camps.
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RMS Queen Elizabeth was the sister ship to the Cunard liner
RMS Queen Mary and was launched later this day at the Clydebank shipyard by the
Queen herself. She wasn’t ready for her maiden voyage until after the War had
broken out so her first trip to New York was done in the utmost secrecy. The ship
was painted grey and the crew didn’t know its destination until after it had
left port.
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There’s a word you don’t see in tabloid headlines these days
– ‘repudiates’.
Two words I wouldn’t expect to find in a 1938 tabloid – ‘ ‘
and ‘ ‘.
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Coin operated vending machines appeared in the UK in the
late 1880’s. In my experience the most common products available were sweets,
particularly chocolate bars, and cigarettes. I’d have thought that keeping fish
and chips hot for any length of time would result in soggy chips and soft
batter. They certainly didn’t catch on in any great numbers.
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Just shows how dangerous it was in the 1930’s to
be a woman of loose moral habits. According to The Times for November 5th
1938 David Leonard Knight was found not guilty and discharged
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Despite the War in Europe the 1939/40 New York World’s Fair
went ahead. The British Pavilion displayed an original copy of the Magna Carta,
but by the end of the Expo it was thought too risky to transport it back to
England so it stayed in Fort Knox until 1947. Germany didn’t attend the Fair.
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A happy story for a change. A young couple in love and
destined to marry? Maybe not. The only entry in the FreeBDM marriage records
for Doris Deciacco has her hitching up with a Robert Jack in 1947. What
happened to William?
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T.R. Newton may have been Cheshire’s strongest man and
capable of swimming across Morecambe Bay but could he eat three shredded wheat?
