Category: Poland
February 1, 1982 – Let Poland Be Poland – The Mounting Tragedy Of El Salvador
February 1, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup-CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 1, 1982 – Between the situation in Gdansk, Poland and San Salvador in El Salvador, the Reagan White House Foreign Policy was being put to the test. From Poland came the release of
January 24, 1981 – Decompression Time – Release Of American Hostages: Trauma And Questions
January 24, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 24, 1981 – The American hostages, held for 444 days at the Embassy in Tehran had been released some days earlier and flown to Wiesbaden West Germany, before continuing on to home in the U.S.
September 4,1939 – Calling Reserves – Filling Sandbags – Europe At War
September 4, 1939 – News from BBC Home Service- 9:15 am – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 4, 1939 – As the news sank in that Europe was now in a state of War, reports of the first sinking of a British Merchant ship were reported. The SS. Athena,
August 30, 1939 – Europe in The Balance
News reports via shortwave from the major capitals of Europe on the eve of outbreak of War. Reports from Paris, Warsaw and Berlin. Click on the link at Past Daily to hear the actual news reports. And give Past Daily a hand, we are busy restoring, preserving and presenting these
August 24, 1939 – Summer In Berlin On The Brink Of War
August 24, 1939 – Sigrid Schultz – Report from Berlin – MBS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 24, 1939 – Reports from Berlin over the dangerous closeness of war, this day. As reported by Berlin Correspondent Sigrid Schultz for the Chicago Tribune. And even while talks were breaking
June 30, 1983 – Message From Cardinal Glemp – Guatemala’s Furtive Glimpse Of Democracy
June 30, 1983 – CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + 9:00 network news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 30, 1983 – Hopeful messages and unsure ones. Beginning with the arrival in Rome of Cardinal Glemp of Warsaw. Glemp came with a message to Pope John Paul II,
Polish Pilots In The RAF – World War 2 – The 13th Raid – Past Daily Reference Room
The 13th Raid – The Polish RAF pilots during a Night Raid over Germany – 1941 – BBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. In recent weeks, with the controversy surrounding Brexit and the simmering issue of Immigration in Britain, I read a news report of a Polish family
Leon Blum And The French View Of War – September 7, 1939 – Past Daily Reference Room
A shortwave broadcast talk by Premier of France, Leon Blum during the first week of hostilities on September 7, 1939. Leon Blum, who had the distinction of being the first Socialist and Jewish Premier of France, had the dubious distinction of guiding his country into yet another war; this one,