Magna Charta in America, 1939

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Seventy five years ago, one of the four copies of the Magna Charta was moved to America for safekeeping.  Here, the Milwaukee Journal for November 29, 1939, shows the British Ambassador entrusting the document to the Librarian of Congress.

 


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