Michael Novakhov retweeted:

OTD Dec 10 1907. Rudyard Kipling awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Wrote espionage classic Kim and some other stuff, but mostly Kim and a book that became Sean Connery/Michel Caine film

Michael Novakhov retweeted:

OTD Dec 10, 1946 Alger Hiss resigned from State Dept position to become president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Michael Novakhov retweeted:

OTD Dec 10, 1941 incompetent German spy Karel Richter meets incompetent hangman at Wandsworth Prison. Hilarity does not ensue.

Michael Novakhov retweeted:

On this day in 1942, the Polish government-in-exile reveals to the international community shocking details about the mass extermination of Jews by the Nazis. The document, known as Raczyński’s Note, represents the first official public report of the true scale of the Holocaust.