March 15, 1939 – About Ruthenia – Parcelling Off Czechoslovakia
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Category: World War 2
Music Of Maurice Blackburn – Canadian Composers In Wartime – 1944 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Maurice Blackburn: Charpente: Canadian Forest – 1944 – CBC Symphony – Jean-Maurice Beaudet, cond. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Canadian composer Maurice Blackburn in this premier performance of his Charpente: Canadian Forest, written in 1944 and featuring the CBC Symphony of Montreal, conducted by Jean-Maurice Beaudet.
January 1940 – The Matter Of Leslie Hore-Belisha – Past Daily Reference Room
January 1940 – BBC Home Service – Hore-Belisha resignation – Chamberlain reaction – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The name Leslie Hore-Belisha may not ring many bells in reference to the history of World War 2, aside from being associated with traffic lights at British Pedestrian crossings (the Belisha Beacon),
Alf Landon Talks About Foreign Policy – January 11, 1941 – Past Daily Reference Room
Alf Landon – Foreign Policy Address – January 11, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – For those of you unfamiliar with him, Alf Landon was a one-term Governor from Kansas who landed the Republican nomination for the Presidential election of 1936. Considered a shoe-in based on a mail-in poll
January 4, 1942 – Anthony Eden Gives An Assessment And An Appraisal
January 4, 1942 – Sir Anthony Eden – Address – BBC Home Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 4, 1942. A new year and the war was now engulfing the world. America was attacked and so it no longer became a War in Europe, but World War 2.
An Address By Edouard Daladier – December 1, 1939 – France At War
Prime Minister Edouard Daladier – Address to France – December 1, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 1, 1939 – With the war in Europe four months old, and the threat of an invasion of France becoming more inevitable each day, French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier went before
AFofL President William Green – “Challenges To Democracy” – October 5, 1939 – Past Daily Reference Room
William Green – President, American Federal of Labor – “Challenges To Democracy” – October 5, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – William Green was President of the American Federal of Labor, before the merger with Congress Of Industrial Organizations, addressing a gathering on the subject “Challenges To Democracy”. October
October 5, 1939 – The View From Berlin – Germany And The Invasion Of Poland
October 5, 1939 – Raymond Gram Swing News and Commentary – Mutual Broadcasting – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 5, 1939 – News from Berlin. With war only days old, and America safely on the sidelines, we were able to look at both sides with reasonable balance, although we
October 5, 1938 – Edward Benes Farewell Address (English Translation)
October 5, 1938 – Radio Prague – English Translation of Speech by Edward Benes – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Edward Benes, President of Czechoslovakia from 1935 until his resignation in 1938 was strongly opposed to the German annexation of what was known as the Sudeten territory in Czechoslovakia. Abandoned
September 28, 1944 – Bold Efforts To Cut The War Short, But Maybe Not By Christmas
September 28, 1944 – NBC News of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 28, 1944 – Despite upbeat assessments and advances along some fronts, the expected crossing of the Siegfried Line into Germany hadn’t been accomplished yet. There was still plenty of resistance and it prompted Prime