military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (01/23/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 23 January, 1940 In response to alarming numbers of automobile accidents under blackout conditions, the speed limit in many areas of Britain is reduced from 20mph to 10mph. Britian suggests that Rumania should restrict her oil trade with Germany. With a 1911 commercial treaty due to expire on Friday, the US informs Japan that it intends to continue under the present terms on a day-by-day basis. Chemists of the German I.G. Farbenindustrie announce the creation of a luminous paint. A material called "lumogen" is mixed with paint of any color, and fluoresces in the presence of ultraviolet radiation. It is felt that this discovery could revolutionize interior lighting. Boris Sergievsky, a former Russian pilot, speaks in New York before the "Committee for Russian-Finnish Cooperation in the Fight against Communism" (which is chaired by Igor Sikorski). He proclaims that the Russo-Finnish War is an opportunity for those who fought the Bolsheviks in 1917, and urges White Russians to join the Finnish cause. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "For twenty-two years we have been waiting for this very moment. Now there is a place where we can go back and fight from." - Boris Sergievsky