military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (03/03/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Sunday, 3 March, 1940 Soviet troops under General Timoshenko launch a massive thrust in and around Viipuri. After conferring with Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering, Sumner Welles leaves Berlin for Paris. Two Belgian aircraft are shot down by a German bomber; the clash take place in Belgian airspace. President Roosevelt returns from his unexplained cruise, announcing that he has secured assurances from Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica that they would make airfield available to US aircraft for defense of the Panama Canal. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Your editorial "Time on China's Side" emphasizes the tragic fact that American sympathy is not on her side. The fleets of scrap-iron leaving our shorws for the the Japanese gun factories make us Japan's powerful ally in her attempts to conquer peace=loving, inoffensive China." - F.A. Doyle, in a letter to the NY Times.