1926 Joseph Stalin "I want a new, invincible human being"
  2/21/38 FBI A "fan" writes a love letter to Clark Gable
  3/10/38 Warner Brothers "The horror of that place..."
  1939 Sigmund Freud "I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck..."
  1939 Time Time Magazine Covers: 1939
  1939 Life Life Magazine Covers: 1939
  1939   Ann Sheridan Magazine Covers 1939
  1939 Ernest Hemingway The Snows of Kilamanjaro
  1/30/39 Adolph Hitler "A prophecy" (recorded speech)
  4/9/39 Marian Amderson Lincoln Memorial concert. Listen.
  May 1939 James Joyce "Anna Liva" (Finnegans Wake excert read aloud by Joyce)
  1939 The Guardian (UK) 1939 news stories
  4/24/39 [Unknown] A Nazi Course in Propaganda Techniques
  5/16/39 British Foreign Office British White Paper of 1939
  Summer 1939 Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster Superman Comic Book #1
  7/1939 George Orwell "nothing is likely to save us..."
  8/14/39 Soviet Russia Today, 8. 5 An Open Letter Calling for the Greater Unity of Anti-Fascist Forces
  8/23/39 V. Molotov
J. Von Ribbentrop
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty
  Sept. 1939 Soviet Russia Today, 8. 5 The Meaning of the Non-Aggression Pact
  8/30/39 Gallup Poll "About how long do you think the present war will last?"
  Sept. 1939 Gallop Poll "Should we declare war and send our army and navy abroad to fight Germany?"
  9/4/39 Franklin
Roosevelt
Fireside Chat 14: "America will not intervene"
  9/39 W.H. Auden "September 1, 1939"
  9/21/39 WJVS AM
Washington, DC
Dawn to dusk radio broadcasts
  Fall 1939 Clement Greenberg "Avant-Garde and Kitsch"
  11/15/39 Paul Robson "A Ballad for Americans"
  1939 Herblock Herblock cartoons: 1939
  6/18/40 Winston Churchill "Their finest hour"
  11/28/40 Fritz Hippler Der Ewige Jude "The Eternal Jew"
  2/1/41 FBI (Confidential) "Hollywood Anti-Nazi League is a communist front organization"
  9/11/41 Charles Lindbergh "The British, the Jewish, and the Administration..."
   6/4/42  William Wyler Preacher's speech from Mrs. Miniver (voice track & selected frames)