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August 8th, 1939 (TUESDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Winston Churchill makes a fifteen-minute radio broadcast to America, warning of the increasingly serious threat of war in Europe and the likelihood of American involvement. "This is the time to fight - to speak - to attack!"

A woman walking on Beachy Head is killed when an RAF bomber (my source is not specific as to make) crashes 300 yards inland ploughing through her and plunging over the 575 foot cliff into the English Channel.

GERMANY: The press begins an anti-Polish campaign.

Mobilisation is reported as nearly complete.

U-111 is ordered.

PALESTINE: Haifa: 373 Jewish refugees arrive from Paris.

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