September 2: Hermann Goering warns in a speech in Stuttgart that if a new boycott of Nazi Germany is attempted, 'any damages caused will be paid by Jews in Germany.'

September 2: The adventure film 'The Prisoner of Zenda' starring Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. is released.

September 9: Hitler lays the cornerstone for the Deutsches Stadion. Like many major Nazi construction projects it will never be completed.

September 11: President Roosevelt gives a press conference in New York vowing he will do everything possible 'to keep us out of war.'

September 12: Excerpts from a letter written by the imprisoned German pastor Martin Niemöller are read to his congregation. "I often think of others who must wander through the same dark valley as myself", one passage reads. "But it is a comfort to us all to know that you are praying for us. I am certain the almighty God will triumph."

September 17: The Abraham Lincoln head on the Mount Rushmore sculpture is dedicated.

September 20: Anthony Eden speaks at the League of Nations Assembly, telling Italy and Japan they were ruining themselves financially by their policies of territorial conquest and informing Germany that the way to obtain raw materials is to buy them instead of demanding colonies.

September 21: The J. R. R. Tolkien children's fantasy novel The Hobbit is published in England.

September 29: Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong agree to put aside their differences and join forces to fight the Japanese invasion. (source: Wikipedia)