Talk:1939

Halliburton disappearance

I think the last known contact with Richard Halliburton's ship was March 23, not 28. -- Tetraminoe 00:59, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Oct 11

Does anyone know what the "Soviet Union attacks Poland" entry is about? Is this the wrong date for the Sept. 17th invasion or is this some other error? 198.112.236.6 21:09, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

• I deleted above entry 198.112.236.6 15:57, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

James Naismith

James Naismith was the first to invent basketball. According to kenyan basketball federation, tony Mbatau managed to be the best basketballer of all times.

Where is the article?

Just where in the hell did the article for 1939 go? You only have half of January in there!! Draig goch20 10:33, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I have put the article of 07 February 2006 back on. Someone deleted the entire 1939 article and only left the January part of the article standing. This article was reconstructed by me on the 08 February 2006 which I think was an act of vandalism, this problem clearly has been sorted now. Draig goch20 12:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

And again ... the events are not listed any longer. 86.144.198.241 19:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC) (usually michaelritchie200 but not logged in)

I was attempting to recreate the events section from other wikipedia aritcles, mostly the dates of the year, but somehow my dates got swapped around on my listings. Therefore have deleted the work i did over the last week --Hammard 00:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Format

[See: Talk:1950#Format. -Wikid77 18:30, 13 December 2006 (UTC)]

WHO WROTE THIS?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artyomszeg (talk • contribs) 12:38, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Nice list of things that happened in 1939

http://www.thehipp.org/ballyhoo_perspectives_1939.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Root Beers (talk • contribs) 22:20, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

Item for January 23rd on Dutch War Scare

As currently written, the item reads, 'The "Dutch War Scare' leads to a major change in British policies towards Europe."

What change could this possibly be? I am not a professional historian, but I am pretty sure one would find broad agreement throughout the field that there were no "major" changes in HMG's foreign policies regarding Europe between Munich (September of 1938) and Prague (March of 1939).

At Munich, HMG had clearly, publically, and practically demonstrated that British policy would be to work with Germany, Italy, and France to secure European peace, even to the detriment of previous security arrangements. As William Manchester has written, "On March 10, only five days before Hitler's Prague coup...(Secretary of State for War Baron Hoare-Belisha, speaking in Commons) "had predicted that if Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Chamberlain and Daladier were to work in tandem they could banish nightmares of war and burdens of armaments and thus 'in an incredibly short period of time transform the whole history of the world.'" (The Last Lion: Alone, p. 389). Thus, almost on the eve of Hitler's seizure of what was left of Czechoslovakia, HMG were very publically calling for a continuation of HMGs existing policies of securing peace through co-operation with Germany, Italy, and France. In fact, although Chamberlain's rhetoric began to change with his famous speech at Birmingham on March 17, where Chamberlain publically executed an "about face" (Manchester), the first material change in policy comes only with Chamberlain's unconditional guarantee of Polish independence of March 31, which for the first time publically committed HMG to ultimately break with Hitler unless he should back down.

Suggest this sentence be removed unless someone can explain what the "major" changes were that occurred in British European policy in January of 1939. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.137.156.15 (talk) 16:59, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Item for March 24, "Judea declares war on Germany"

Please review this item; I am confident those in responsible positions at Wikipedia will agree it does not belong in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.66.81 (talk) 03:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Item for March 24, and item for April 15

Some weeks back, I posted a section on this talk page about an item for March 24 in the 1939 article, which reads, "Marks the seventh successive year of the world wide boycott of all German exports initiated by front page declarations in Britain and the U.S. 'Judea declares war on Germany'"

This is not true, as in America, Britain, France, and much of the rest of the world, one could still buy Mercedes automobiles (albeit with wooden wheels, to conserve rubber, as chronicled by Ralph Stein in his book "Great Cars"), Bosch radios and ignition parts, etc., right up to 1939. In addition, it is VERY poorly written, uncited (where is evidence of these "front page declarations" in British and American newspapers of any such boycott?), offensive and, in my own personal view, arguably hate speech.

However, I DID NOT REMOVE IT, as I did not want to be thought guilty of vandalism. Instead, I tried to bring it to the attention of those in authority by way of an item on the talk page, as I was CONFIDENT those who care about Wikipedia's credibility would not want such a thing in it.

Nothing happened.

Earlier this month, I added an item for April 15, about President's Roosevelt's letter to Adolf Hitler, inquiring if Hitler would be willing to guarantee the security of certain countries. This is a well known incident; it is recounted, among other places, in Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," Churchill's "The Gathering Storm," and Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" series of training films.

Today I find that this item has already been removed, in less than two weeks!

I cannot understand why Wikipedia would refuse to do something about the one right away, or why the second, which I think fits in so well with not only the tone and intent of the 1939 article, but also with its style, was so promptly and completely removed. The juxtaposition of these two events should be especially worrisome to those familiar with the events of the Second World War. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.66.93 (talk) 15:34, 19 April 2014 (UTC)