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• Friday, 7 October 1938

  7 October 2008 in 1930s, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes

  This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.

  After four days of debate, the House of Commons has voted on the government’s policy during the Sudeten crisis in general, and on the Munich agreement in particular (The Times, p. 14). The [...]

• Thursday, 6 October 1938

  6 October 2008 in 1930s, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes

  This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.

  The main headlines in today’s Daily Mail report (p. 11) on a battle raging in Palestine between ‘Arab terrorists’ and British aircraft and troops. Reinforcements are en route, and the High Commissioner has [...]

• Wednesday, 5 October 1938

  5 October 2008 in 1930s, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes

  This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.

  The Sudeten crisis, or rather its aftermath, still dominates the headlines. But the headlines themselves are getting smaller — these ones from the Daily Mail (p. 11) are only a couple of columns [...]

• Tuesday, 4 October 1938

  4 October 2008 in 1930s, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes

  This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.

  A few days ago, Chamberlain said Munich was ‘peace for our time’. Now he, in his speech in Parliament yesterday, he is saying that there can be no let-up in the pace of [...]

• Monday, 3 October 1938

  3 October 2008 in 1930s, Ephemera, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes, Radio

  This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.

  So, after all those weeks of mounting tension over the fate of the Sudetens, it’s finally being resolved: German troops have begun occupying the Sudetenland (Daily Mail, p. 13). Polish troops have also [...]