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Creation of British Palestine | Street Fighting In British Palestine | 1930s Civil Unrest in Jerusalem
1938, Jews in the 20th Century, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

Wanderers No More (Pathfinder Magazine, 1938)

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Here is a pretty middle-of-the-road type of article that explains the creation of British Palestine, the Jewish migration and the Arab unrest:

Writing in his History of Zionism, Nahum Sokalow looked in to the future: ‘The Jews have grown tired of their roll as the homeless Chosen People and would prefer to be a self-supporting small nation with a quiet spot of earth for themselves…’. The spot for which the Jews had yearned proved to be about as quiet as a live volcano.

Suicide rate during the Great Depression | 1930 s suicides
1933, Recent Articles, The Great Depression, The Literary Digest

The Increased Suicide Rate (Literary Digest, 1933)

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With the arrival of the Great Depression came an increase in American suicides. When this article appeared on the newsstands the Depression was just three and a half years old – with many more years yet to come. As the Americans saw 1932 come to a close, the records showed that 3,088 more acts of self-immolation had taken place than had been recorded the year before.


Read about the the mood of the Great Depression and how it was reflected in the election of 1932 – click here…

1950 Stock Market Result of the Korean War
1950, Quick Magazine, Recent Articles, The Korean War

The Korean War’s Effect on Wall Street (Quick Magazine, 1950)

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The outbreak of the war in Korea sent stocks tumbling in all important world markets. In N.Y., three months of profits were wiped out. At week’s end some stocks rose, but jittery brokers kept an eye on the war news and – an ear turned toward Washington, where announcements of increased U.S. participation in the fighting touched off further waves of selling>

The Pentagon Prepared for W.W. III (Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)
1951, Pathfinder Magazine, The Cold War

The Pentagon Prepared for W.W. III (Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)

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Shortly after the Soviet Union successfully tested their first atomic bomb, the brass hats who work in the Pentagon saw fit to take the first step in preparing to fight an atomic war: they gave the order to create a subterranean headquarters to house a military command and control center for the U.S. and her allies.

The finished chamber, according to local observers, will be 3,100 feet long, contain four suites for the top brass (the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others), and provide operational quarters for some 1,200 technicians in peacetime, or 5,000 if atomic bombing threatens the Washington command.


Commonly known as Site R, it is located not terribly far from the presidential retreat, Camp David, and in the subsequent years since this article first appeared, the complex has grown considerably larger than when it was first envisioned. Today, Site R maintains more than thirty-eight military communications systems and it has been said that it was one of undisclosed locations that hosted Vice President Dick Cheney (b. 1941) shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks.


A related article can be read here…

N.AT.O. Established (Dept. of the Army, 1956)
1956, The Cold War, The Dept. of the Army

N.AT.O. Established (Dept. of the Army, 1956)

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Attached is a printable page from an R.O.T.C. primer concerning American Military History outlined the events of 1948 that created the need for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O.).

This pact, called the North Atlantic Treaty, united Great Britain, the United States, and ten western European nations in a common security system. Approved by the Senate in April 1949, the treaty provided for mutual assistance, including the use of armed force in the event of a Soviet attack upon one or more of the signatory powers.

Cold War Politics and People of Color (Pageant Magazine, 1959)
1959, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles, The Cold War

Cold War Politics and People of Color (Pageant Magazine, 1959)

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This well-illustrated article appeared in a middle class American magazine in 1959 and it reported on the rising international sentiments that signaled to the dominate Western powers that the old diplomacy of the wealthier white nations had to change. It will help to explain why the United States re-fashioned their immigration laws in 1965.


The Department of State hated it when Radio Moscow would depict Americans as simply a bunch of lynch-happy bigots…

Justice William O Douglas Cold War Editorial
1952, Quick Magazine, The Cold War

‘How We Can Win in Asia” (Quick Magazine, 1952)

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In the attached editorial, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (1898 – 1980) weighs in on how the United States could forge stronger Cold War alliances in Asia and the Middle East:

We have thought that we could stop the spread of communism by guns and by dollars. We have spent billions upon billions and yet the Red tide of communism seems to spread… We should show Asia how her revolution can follow the pattern of 1776. What will win in Asia are not guns and dollars but but ideas of freedom and justice. To win in Asia, America must identify herself with those ideas.


To understand some of the diplomatic challenges Douglas was referring to, click here


More on this topic can be read here…

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