Articles from The Literary Digest
When Capitol Hill rejected the Versailles Treaty in 1919, Paris and London found themselves having to rely upon each other in ways they weren’t expecting.
Britain and France Draw Closer (Literary Digest, 1921) Read More »
The attached article, written in 1928, reported on how heartily sick the Germans were at having to serve as hosts for three occupying armies as a result of a Versailles Treaty clause that mandated the Allied military occupation until 1935. The Foreign Minister of Germany, Dr Gustav Stresemann, made several eloquent pleas to the diplomatic community insisting that there was no need for the continuing encampments before he began submitting his bitter editorials to assorted European magazines, which are discussed herein:
Friendship between France and Germany is impossible as long as Allied troops remain in the occupation area of the Rhineland…
The Ongoing French Occupation of Germany (Literary Digest, 1928) Read More »
Can we trust him?‘
That is the question asked by some British and French editors as they consider Chancellor Adolf Hitler‘s speech on the disarmament question in which, while he firmly champions the German case for equality in armaments, ‘he broke no diplomatic china’
The German economist who made the Reich’s rearmament possible was named Hjalmar Schacht, click here to read about him…
What is Next for Europe? (Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
This magazine article appeared on American newsstands not too long after Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor in the office of President Hindenburg (Paul von Hindenburg 1847 – 1934), and presents a number of opinions gathered from assorted European countries as they considered just what a Nazi Germany would mean for the continent as a whole:
‘Whether or not Hitler turns out to be a clown or a faker, those by his side now, and those who may replace him later, are not figures to be joked with.’
With this grim thought the semiofficial Paris ‘Temps’ greets the accession of ‘handsome Adolf’ Hitler to the Chancellorship in Germany. The event, it ads, is ‘of greater importance than any event since the fall of of the Hohenzollererns.’
Click here to read a similar article from the same period.
1933: Hitler Comes to Power (Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
The attached article is composed of numerous newspaper observations that appeared in print throughout April of 1933; these perceptions all pertain to the goings on that followed in the joyous wake of Prohibition’s demise:
‘The return of beer has really been a remarkable phenomenon,’ says The New York Evening Post.
‘Not one of the bad effects predicted for it actually took place’.
Beer Flowed the Week Prohibition Ended (Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
During the action-packed opening months of the F.D.R. administration, Congress addressed the option of repealing Prohibition and allowing each state to decide whether it wished to be dry or wet:
Now the people can decide, after more than thirteen years of Prohibition.
Surprising the country, the lame-duck Congress, hereto staunchly dry, reverses itself ‘in a stampede toward repeal,’ to permit the people to decide Prohibition’s fate.
Congress Discusses the Repeal of Prohibition (Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
With the [Prohibition] Repeal, approximately one million people went back to work, making wine, beer and distilled spirits, bottles and barrels; transporting, selling and serving and advertising it. Innumerable industries indirectly connected with liquor, such as printing, building and machinery-making, received a sharp stimulus. With Repeal also, sorely needed tax money started to roll into the public coffers. Since 1933 more than two billion dollars in liquor taxes has gone into national, state and local treasuries…
Repeal + Four Years (Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
This article reported on the alarming growth and surprising appeal that the KKK was attaining in 1922. The unnamed journalist described numerous incidences that clearly reflected the Klan’s open contempt for law throughout the country- concluding that the Klan was beyond redemption. The article revealed that the newspaper editors who lived and worked in those regions where the Klan was most active had greater contempt for them than we otherwise might have been lead to believe.
Klan Methods and Customs (Literary Digest, 1922) Read More »
Victor Serge (1890 – 1947) was a devoted Bolshevik writer who was highly critical of Joseph Stalin; he spent five years in the gulag for his subversive activity and would have no doubt died there had not an international mishmash of humanitarians raised a stink about his incarceration. He was exiled from the Marxist-dream-land in 1936 – the attached column is an extract from his gulag writings concerning the cruelties of Stalin’s secret police.
The Police State (Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
Within twelve months time the following things happen in New York:
• One hundred thousand New Yorkers are born.
• Five thousand of them die.
• Twelve thousand New Yorkers die in car accidents.
• Sixty thousand New Yorkers are married.
• 1,350 New Yorkers commit suicide etc., etc., etc.,
One Year in the Life of NYC (Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
