Nazi Germany issued the Decree on the Confiscation of Jewish Property, regulating the transfer of assets from Jews to non-Jews in the country.[4]
Duff Cooper made a speech to the House of Commons explaining his reason for resigning as First Lord of the Admiralty. Cooper opposed Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy and said that Britain should have fought "in order that one great Power should not be allowed, in disregard of treaty obligations, of the laws of nations and the decrees of morality to dominate by brutal force the Continent of Europe. For that principle we fought against Napoleon Buonaparte, and against Louis XIV of France and Philip II of Spain. For that principle we must ever be prepared to fight, for on the day when we are not prepared to fight for it we forfeit our Empire, our liberties and our independence."[5]
Irish troops took over the forts of Dunree and Leenan on Lough Swilly, ending 247 years of British military presence in Ireland.[6]
All German passports held by Jews were invalidated. Jews were required to surrender their old passports to have them revalidated by having a letter "J" stamped on them.[4]
In the British periodical The Week, Claud Cockburn wrote that Charles Lindbergh had recently told a meeting of the Cliveden set that the Luftwaffe could defeat the British, French, Soviet and Czechoslovak air forces combined.[9]
The Fascist Grand Council of Italy approved the first Italian Racial Laws, banning interracial marriage and prohibiting Jews from enrolling in the Fascist Party or serving in the military.[11]
In Vienna, a violent mob stormed the palace of Cardinal Theodor Innitzer and ransacked it. Nazis had been angered by a recent sermon Innitzer gave protesting the government's interference with the Catholic church.[12]
The Soviet newspaper Pravda picked up on Claud Cockburn's recent article about Charles Lindbergh and published an article of its own, in which leading Russian airmen accused Lindbergh of spreading lies about Soviet air strength to encourage Neville Chamberlain to concede part of Czechoslovakia.[14]Lady Astor, who gave the dinner party where the remarks were allegedly made, called the accusations a "complete lie" and said that Lindbergh did talk about Russia but did not say anything about its air force. "You can safely attribute these reports to communist propaganda coming from Claud Cockburn, who started the completely unfounded rumors about the Cliveden set", she said.[9]
Winston Churchill gave a radio address to the United States outlining the threat of Nazi Germany and the need of both Britain and the United States to arm themselves. The speech was titled "The Defence of Freedom and Peace" but subtitled "The Lights are Going Out", an allusion to the famous comment attributed to Sir Edward Grey at the beginning of the First World War, "The lamps are going out all over Europe".[24]
Four Germans were arrested as spies at the Panama Canal when they were caught taking photographs of Fort Randolph.[25]
Buddy Ebsen became ill on the set of The Wizard of Oz and was hospitalized after the aluminum dust makeup from his Tin Man costume rendered him barely able to breathe. Ebsen would be replaced by Jack Haley.[21]
All Roman Catholic churches in Vienna read a letter by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer denying that he had attacked Adolf Hitler in a sermon. The letter concluded: "I declare now, as before, that I hold the opinion a Catholic must conscientiously fulfill his duty toward the state, but the bishop must also at all times carry out his sworn duty at representing the reich of God and church."[33]
Hitler sent his foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to meet with Polish ambassador Józef Lipski at Berchtesgaden. Ribbentrop declared it was time for Danzig to revert to Germany, but Lipski replied that the Polish government was unlikely to agree.[1][34]
Died:Ernst Barlach, 68, German sculptor, printmaker and writer
The Nazis began arresting Jews with Polish citizenship with the intention of deporting them back to Poland.[38]
Quinton Hogg won the Oxford by-election following a hard-fought campaign that focused almost exclusively on foreign affairs. Hogg was a supporter of Chamberlain's appeasement policy and the by-election result was seen as an endorsement of the Munich Agreement by the British public.
Some 12,000 Polish Jews were deported from Germany in the vicinity of the border town of Zbąszyń. Many of the expelled Jews were denied entry into Poland on the basis of the country's new denaturalization law. Some went back into Germany and about 5,500 wound up staying in disused stables and other temporary shelters around Zbąszyń with nowhere else to go.[38][40][41]
Five acres of the shopping and hotel district of Marseilles burned to the ground. Almost 100 perished in the blaze.[42][43]
A radio drama performance of The War of the Worlds directed and narrated by Orson Welles aired over the CBS radio network. It became famous for allegedly causing a nationwide panic among people who thought the drama about an alien invasion by Martians was a real news broadcast, but such accounts have been wildly exaggerated.[46]
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^"Nazi Throngs Again Menace Vienna Prelate". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 10, 1938. p. 1.
^"Lindbergh Called 'Bribed Liar'; Aided Hitler, Soviet Flyers Say". Brooklyn Eagle. October 10, 1938. p. 1.
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^"Poles Exile Czechs from Teschen Area; Skilled Workers Hit". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 14, 1938. p. 2.
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^"Chamberlain Picks Stanhope as First Lord of Admiralty". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 28, 1938. p. 10.
^Cymet, David (2010). History vs. Apologetics: The Holocaust, the Third Reich, and the Catholic Church. Plymouth: Lexington Books. p. 122. ISBN978-0-7391-3295-1.