military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (02/25/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Sunday, 25 February, 1940 Reports from Istanbul indicate that both Turkey and the USSR have withdrawn their troops from the Caucasus border region. A squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force arrives in Britain, the first Canadian squadron to be deployed there. U.S. Undersecretary of State Welles arrives in Rome, the first stop on his visit to four European powers. Pan American Airways announces that effective March 15th, its clipper planes would no longer stop at Bermuda. The move is in response to British seizure and censorship of Europe-bound mail at Bermuda. Japan begins construction of fortifications at Shanghai and Tsingtao: the defensive works face inland, to repel overland assaults. This is believed to indicate that Japanese forces may soon withdraw from the Chinese interior. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Regardless of the ultimate result, what the Finns have achieved already will be one of those stories at which the mind and imagination of future readers of history will glow." - New York Times editorial