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Brazil Goes to War (Click Magazine, 1942)
1942, Click Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

Brazil Goes to War
(Click Magazine, 1942)

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The government of Brazil declared war on Hitler’s Germany on August 22, 1942, and you’d best believe that the over-paid photographers of CLICK MAGAZINE were Johnny-on-the-spot to document all the joyous mayhem that let loose on those flag-strewn boulevards of the Brazilian capitol:

Brazilians are fighting mad. When Brazil joined the United Nations in war on August 22nd, the formal declaration was a climax to the democratic action of its citizens who began, months ago, to let the world know how they felt about the Axis.

The pent-up rage of a sorely-tried nation burst in earnest when war was declared. With unanimous enthusiasm, the people mobbed the streets, cheering everything that was part of the Allied cause…Day after day, anti-fascist demonstrations, and pageants choked the streets of Rio de Janiero, where the pictures on this page were taken.


On that day, Brazil became the 32nd nation to declare war against Germany.

*Read a 1944 Article About the Brazilian Army in Italy*

The Lampooning of Picasso (Literary Digest, 1913)
1913, Cubism, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

The Lampooning of Picasso
(Literary Digest, 1913)

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A child could do that has been one of the most common utterances in response to the avant-garde movements of modern art. This short article reflects that view and was written in response to the New York Armory Show, which at that time, was attracting a good deal of attention in the press. The Armory Show is well-remembered today as the first art exhibition to introduce European-style modernism to the people (and artists) of that city. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), as the co-creator of Cubism, is among those lampooned, as is Marcel Duchamp (1887 – 1968) for his painting, A Nude Descending the Staircase.


Another Picasso article can be read here…

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French Amazement at American Esteem of Lafayette (Current Opinion Magazine, 1922)
1922, Current Opinion Magazine, World War One

French Amazement at American Esteem of Lafayette
(Current Opinion Magazine, 1922)

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France has discovered Lafayette in this age only because America never forgot him


The attached article reported that the Marquis de Lafayette (Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, 1757 – 1834), who seemed heaven-sent when he appeared in Philadelphia in order to aid the Americans in their revolt against the British, had been largely forgotten by the French in the Twentieth Century. Indeed, the French were baffled to hear his name invoked as often as it was during the period of America’s participation in the World War One.
It was said that during the war some disgruntled wit in the American Army woke up one morning in the trenches and grumbled: Alright, we paid Lafayette back; now what other Frog son-of-a-bitch do we owe?
Oddly, there is no mention made whatever of that unique trait so common to the Homo Americanus- selective memory: during the 1870 German invasion of France there seemed to have been no one who recalled Lafayette’s name at all.

Major General Leslie R Groves Gave Tours of Trinity Test Site | First Reporters to Visit Trinity Test Site New Mexico 1945
1945, Atomic Bombs, PM Tabloid

Ground Zero, New Mexico
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

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Weeks after the atomic blast that took place over the city of Nagasaki, American Journalists were allowed to see the crystalized ground that was the Trinity test site in New Mexico. They pocketed the queer pieces of glass that made up ground zero and openly mocked the Japanese scientists who said the radioactivity in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was continuing to kill four weeks later.

How Tokyo Learned of Hiroshima (Coronet Magazine, 1946)
1946, Atomic Bombs, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles

How Tokyo Learned of Hiroshima
(Coronet Magazine, 1946)

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Shortly after Tokyo’s capitulation, an advance team of American Army researchers were dispatched to Hiroshima to study the effects that the Atom Bomb had on that city. What we found most interesting about this reminiscence was the narrative told by a young Japanese Army major as to how Tokyo learned of the city’s destruction:

Again and again the air-raid defense headquarters called the army wireless station at Hiroshima. No answer. Something had happened to Hiroshima…

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1922, Foreign Opinions About America, Punch Magazine

American Tourists Lampooned by Punch
(Punch Magazine, 1922)

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This gag concerns itself with another kind of American Expeditionary Force; when Pershing’s Doughboys left, they were replaced by the American tourists. The U.S. had had invented a new category of tourist that the world had never seen before, and they must have been a site to behold: middle class tourists.


There is another article on this site (click here) that states a popular belief held by the Europeans of 1919 that American men were all clean shaven, tended to sport gold teeth, and were most easily recognized by their big tortoise shell glasses (a strikingly accurate description of this site’s editor!); however, this is the first visual manifestation of this caricature that we could find. This Punch cartoonist did not simply believe that this was a fitting description of the white guys, but black guys, too -and the white women as well; an entire nation resembling Harold Lloyd.


Click here to read about Punch Magazine.

Nazi Art Plunder (Click Magazine, 1943)
1943, Click Magazine, Recent Articles, The Nazis

Nazi Art Plunder
(Click Magazine, 1943)

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The attached article tells the story of an organization that was formed by the German Foreign Office in order to steal the treasures of the occupied European nations. It was called the Nazi Art Corps and it was divided into four battalions of SS men; they stole manuscripts, sculpture, paintings, jewels etc, etc, etc. They answered to the Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893 – 1946).


Click here to read about the inmate rebellions that took place at Auschwitz, Sobibor and Triblinka.

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How I was Saved (Coronet Magazine, 1951)
1951, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles, Titanic History

How I was Saved
(Coronet Magazine, 1951)

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No doubt, the most glam passenger to survive the Titanic disaster was the fashion designer Lady Duff-Gordon (1863 – 1935: a.k.a. Lucile). Attached is the great couturier’s account describing the pandemonium she witnessed on deck, the screams heard as Titanic began her plunge and the sun coming up the next morning:

I shall never forget the beauty of that April dawn, stealing over the cold Atlantic, lighting up the icebergs till they looked like giant opals. As we saw other boats rowing alongside, we imagined that most passengers on the Titanic had been saved, like us; not one of us even guessed the appalling truth…

The Plot to Restore the Corset (The New Republic, 1922)
1922, Flappers, Recent Articles, The New Republic

The Plot to Restore the Corset
(The New Republic, 1922)

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A shewed observer of fashion, Mary Alden Hopkins (1856 – 1930) noted how the Victorian dinosaurs who lorded-over the male-dominated, pro-corset fashion industry had attempted (unsuccessfully) to manipulate and coerce the shoppers of the early Twenties to reject the Chanel-inspired revolt that the young flappers were currently enjoying.

How can I sell these styles?…the flappers won’t buy them.

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Paganism in Nazi Germany | Wontan Worship in Nazi Germany | Nazi Wotan
1938, The Literary Digest, The Nazis

Their Freaky Religion
(Literary Digest, 1938)

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Last spring the Third Reich recognized a third official state religion: a neo-pagan cult based on Thor, Wotan, Siegfried and the old Nordic gods. It was especially favored by ultranazis and by Hitler’s black-shirted bodyguards, the Schutzstaffel or S.S. corps. The other two official German religions are Catholic and Protestant Evangelical, whose proponents today are deadlocked in combat with the up and coming neopagans.

Pre-WW2 espionage in Baja California by the Imperial Japanese Government | Fascist Japan Meddled in Mexico 1939
1939, Ken Magazine, Recent Articles, Spying

Japanese Spies on the West-Coast
(Ken Magazine, 1939)

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A 1939 magazine article that reported on the assorted activities of Japanese spies operating around the Tijuana/San Diego region (their presence was well-documented by the Mexican military in addition to the F.B.I.).


A year and a half before the Pearl Harbor attack, Naval Intelligence sold a Japanese agent some bogus plans of the naval installation – more about this can be read here.

Women's Football (Click Magazine, 1940)
1940, Click Magazine, Football History, Recent Articles

Women’s Football
(Click Magazine, 1940)

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Attached is a brief photo-essay documenting the short-lived experiment with women’s football in California:

Anything can and does happen in California, the proving ground for all sorts of fads and fancies. The latest craze sweeping the land of the Ham-and-Eggers is girl’s football. Discarding their all-revealing bathing suits, Hollywood and Los Angeles lassies have taken to padded moleskins, hip pads, shoulder pads, head gears and rubber-cleated brogans. The transition from beach nymph to gridiron amazon is called a revolution against oomph in the capital of streamlined pulchritude…regardless of what is said, powder-puff football seems destined to stay.

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'They Saw Hamburg Die'' (Collier's Magazine, 1943)
1943, Collier's Magazine, German Home Front, Recent Articles

‘They Saw Hamburg Die”
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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Here is a 1943 article that was cabled from Stockholm, Sweden, relaying assorted eyewitness accounts of the Allied bombing campaign over the German city of Hamburg in 1943:

The people of Germany have now learned, through the terror-filled hours of sleepless nights and days, that air mastery, the annihilating blitz weapon of the Nazis in 1939 and 1940, has been taken over by by the Allies…The most terrible of these punches has been the flood of nitroglycerin and phosphorus that in five days and nights destroyed Hamburg.


Click here to read about the bombing of Japan.


It was an Englishman nick-named Bomber Harris who planned and organized the nightly raids over Nazi Germany: click here to read about him.

'Negroes Still Departing'' (The Atlanta Georgian, 1917)
1917, African-American History, The Atlanta Georgian

‘Negroes Still Departing”
(The Atlanta Georgian, 1917)

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This short notice from a 1917 Georgia newspaper documented the heavy numbers involved in what has come to be known as the Great migration as more and more African-Americans abandoned their homes in the Southern states preferring life in the North. It is believed that between the years 1910 through 1940, some 1.6 million African Americans participated in this exodus. The Southern journalist who penned these three paragraphs clearly felt a sense of personal rejection:

The worthless ones are remaining here to be cared for… The departure of these Negroes is not spasmodic. It is a steady drain of the best class of laborers that the South now has. Just what remedy is to prevent it we do not know.


Another article about the great migration can be read here.

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