Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Rhome Harrell
Title : A few minutes before midnight Communications between Germany and the USA directly preceding WWII
Year : 2008

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Exchange Of Communications Between The President Of The United States And The Chancellor Of The German Reich, April 1939, New York: German Library Of Information, Consulate General, May 1939 (With Roosevelt telegram, map of 1939 Germany, and Wilson’s Fourteen Points). Most often, the speech (approximately 20,000 words) is omitted from most WWII chronologies compiled by “scholars”. The text of the address was published by a somewhat obscure agency, and the original booklet is rather hard to find, if one can be located at all. Only a small part of the material quoted in my paper appears in the rather brief partial translation from the Yale Law School Avalon Project, which seems to be the only thing available. But significant large sections are omitted. It is my understanding that certain American nationalist groups circulated a copy or partial copy in the mid 20th century, but probably even fewer of those are still around than of the original. Hence, without having the booklet with the entire English translation, this crucial material is virtually unavailable to students and researchers of WWII. In 2008, almost 70 years after the speech, one of the 1939 booklets curiously and unexpectedly came into my hands, so now this has changed. ...