Bit of a long shot, but does anyone here know anything about the female British typists who went to Germany in 1945 to type up the peace treaty? My grandmother was one of them!
Jan 11, 1941 #WWII NYT An overwhelming majority of the American people are convinced that the success of Britain in this war is essential to the security of the United States. They intend that the material resources of this nation shall be made available to Britain promptly enough, and on a large enough scale, to turn the tide of battle. https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/11/archives/the-presidents-bill.html
Jan 12, 1941 #WWII NYT With one of the world's former great powers, France, prostrate and Nazi troops occupying the Atlantic coast of Europe from the northernmost tip of Norway to the Bay of Biscay as well as strategically important positions in Southeastern Europe extending to the Black Sea, the Germans feel confident that militarily their hold on Europe for the foreseeable future cannot be successfully assailed. https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/12/archives/reich-is-confident-despite-us-stand-nazis-believe-they-can-hold.html
Jan 13, 1941 #WWII NYT "The world order which we seek," said President Roosevelt in his address to the Seventy-seventh Congress, "is the cooperation of free countries working together in a friendly, civilized society." Under the Nazi belief in the inherent superiority of the “new order" they have established, only a "Deutschland ueber Alles" could be regarded as an acceptable peace aim of the Third Reich https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/13/archives/germanys-peace-aims.html
Jan 15, 1941 #WWII NYT The recent assertion by Colonel Charles A Lindbergh that America must build bulwarks against "the inroads of the Mongol, Persian and Moor" and must preserve the purity of the "white race's culture" was challenged as racial theory fraught with danger to American culture at the annual dinner of the American Institute for Iranian Art and Archaeology. https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/15/archives/lindbergh-scored-on-race-culture-iranian-institute-head-derides.html
Jan 21, 1941 #WWII A majority of voters throughout the country endorse in principle President Roosevelt's proposal to lease or lend war materials to the British, a survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion has shown, according to Dr. George Gallup, its director. "Other institute studies in recent weeks have found the rank and file of Republicans and Democrats substantially agreed that England should be aided even at the risk of war, and that the country's future safety depends on a British victory. https://www.nytimes.com/1941/01/22/archives/most-voters-endorse-the-leaselend-bill-in-principle-gallup-survey.html
2006 #WWII Russia yesterday confirmed it had finished paying off all its debts to western nations dating from the Soviet era, thanks to surging oil prices. Moscow said it had repaid a final chunk of $22.5bn (£11.8bn) and $1.3 bn in servicing costs. The payments were made to 17 creditor countries, known as the Paris Club, over the past week. It has repaid a total of $40bn over the past year. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/aug/22/russia
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