military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (01/19/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 19 January, 1940 The British destroyer HMS Grenville strikes a mine off the Thames Estuary and sinks. Britain continues to detain and censor overseas mail from the US, and a transatlantic clipper is likewise treated in Bermuda. Secretary Hull hints that if this practice continues, US mail mail flights might discontinue stops at that island. Rumors reach London that, as part of the Nazi-Soviet partition of Poland, Russian troops have occupied the Dohobycz oil district of Rumania. Berlin denies the claim. Concern is raised in Washington over the continued export of strategic materials, including rubber, tin, and gasoline, to the Soviet Union, despite their being needed domestically. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Finland cannot be conquered. Though we suffer, we never give up hope. Finland is stronger on the battlefield than Russia. That is why Russia is now waging war on our civilians." - President Kyosti Kallio of Finland