Simon Brett chooses diary extracts for 18 December.
Rumours fly around the White House from the journal of Harold L Ickes in 1937: a convincing Jack-the-Ripper theory from R D Blumenfeld in 1901: and in 1939. as news comes through from the River Plate, Mass-Observation diarists give their reactions to the scuttling of the Graf Spce. Readers Sean Barrett , Jane Whittenshaw and June Barrie.
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