"I've got my 'C'!".  I939 postcard for use by NSFK glider pilots celebrating passing their qualification test for the International Aeronautical Federation's "C" Certificate of Proficiency, entitling them to the award of the "Three Gulls" (First Class) NSFK Gliding Proficiency Badge (represented at the top-left of the card).  Best regards, JR.

Passed my Test !

To show how far advertisers at the time were willing to go to associate themselves with the war effort ... Stokeley's Tomato Juice joins the Fight for Freedom.  Best regards, JR.

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Mussolini justified the Italian conquest of Abyssinia primarily on the basis that Italy and its "legions" were entitled to take their "place in the Sun".  A secondary justification was that it would bring the benefits of civilisation to backward, "barbarous" Abyssinia.  This 1935 cartoon, from the now-defunct British humorous magazine, "Punch" comments sourly on the latter Italian claim.  Best regards, JR.