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In 1942: Declaration of United Nations signed in New York; Casablanca premiers; Bing

Crosby releases White Christmas; first gold record; Stephen Hawking and Jimi Hendrix born.

At the RPSL: Lord Vesty presents Society with Edwin Hill's diary for 1840; British South Africa

Company presents Society with large multiples of their stamps found during bomb damage.

RPSL President was J. Hall Baron. Patron H.M . King George VI. Membership 532.

CAMP KENNEDY TEXAS

ALIEN DETENTION CAMP COVER

From the collection of Deborah Friedman FRPSL.

Member since 1980. Lives in United States of America .

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Camp Kennedy opened in 1942 and housed Germans deported from Latin America to the US so they

could be traded for Allied prisoners held by Axis countries. This cover was sent from the camp by the

late Walter Blell, a German national living in Colombia. He ultimately became a displaced person and

returned to Colombia after the war. Walter and I met in 1969; he returned to the US for the first

time, after we had corresponded, to see my Colombia stationery collection. We worked together on

many postal stationery projects until he died in 1989. Philately trumped bad wartime memories.