military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (11/17/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Thursday, 16 November, 1939 General Sikorski, Premier of the Polish government-in-exile, announces that the Polish Army and Air Force are being reformed in Britain and France. He also predicted that "the convulsions now shaking Europe would lead to the emergence of the idea of European solidarity." (Quoting the NY Times) Italy warns that it will not tolerate a Soviet invasion of the Balkans. The British and French fleets expand their search for German "pocket battleships" to the Indian Ocean. It is believed that the Africa Shell was sunk by either the Deutschland or the Admiral Scheer. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Italy will never permit the further advance of Bolshevist Russia beyond the Carpathians, in the Danube Valley, in the Balkans or toward the Mediterranean." - Gazzetta del Popolo (Turin, Italy)