Rationing on the Germn Home Front
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)
A weird article. This journalist seemed to admire much of what he saw in Nazi Germany.
1940
Articles from 1940
High Hopes for Child Welfare
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)
In this 1940 article, Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) argues for a benevolent government that would see to the prenatal needs of expectant mothers and their growing children:
“But all children, it seems to me, have a right to food, shelter, an equal opportunity for education and an equal chance to come into the world healthy and get the care they need through their early years to keep them well and happy.”
British Palestine, 1940
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)
For the first time since the Balfour Declaration was decreed, the Jews in British Palestine organized an avenging force and attacked numerous Arab villages after suffering random murders for 23 years. This happened in May of 1939; Collier’s ran the attached article a year later – it concerned the slow-burn that was heating-up Jerusalem.
William Powell – Smooth Operator
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)
This is a 1940 article that recalls William Powell’s climb to the top of the Hollywood pantheon:
“When the talking pictures came in, the transition didn’t bother him at all. Many of the silent stars turned out to have voices that squeaked like the brakes of a 1914 automobile. Powell had been training his voice ever since the fateful days of high school.”
Hitler’s Men in Mexico
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)
This 1940 article covers the Nazi shenanigans that were regularly pulled by elements of the German Legation stationed in Mexico City during the late Thirties, early Forties. Within a few months, the Mexican authorities would banish the Nazi presence from their land; click here to read about that.
Mahatma Gandhi: ”Why I Cannot Hate Hitler”
(Liberty Magazine, 1940)
“If this war is fought to a finish, however, civilization may perish in the holocaust. God grant, then, that it shall be halted in time. But can it be halted while hatred remains in the breasts of men? And if I bear hatred for one man, will not this hatred spread out its roots and grow insidiously into a hatred for all the people of his country?”
Babies Wanted
(Liberty Magazine, 1940)
“Womanhood is industrialized in Germany today. The Führer has decreed that maternity is a state function, subject to production regulations like any part of the planned economy of the Third Reich. Sex has been regimented no less than the airplane industry. Love is now mechanized and runs on a twenty-four-hour schedule, with the slogan: Germany needs children.”
Canada Steps Up for Britain
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)
In 1939, “Canada wisely decided that she could become an ideal training center for pilots and airmen generally. Canada could produce munitions in her factories. Conditions were ideal for both pursuits.”
W.W. II: Where were the war poets?
Canada Steps Up for Britain
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)
In 1939, “Canada wisely decided that she could become an ideal training center for pilots and airmen generally. Canada could produce munitions in her factories. Conditions were ideal for both pursuits.”
W.W. II: Where were the war poets?
Why Was The U.S. Last to Recover?
(Liberty Magazine, 1940)
As editor-in-chief of Liberty Magazine, Bernarr Macfadden (1868 – 1955) asked an important question:
“What is the matter with this country? Why is it we are credited with being the last to recover from the world-wide Depression? As the wealthiest nation in the world we should have been the first?”