military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/10/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 9 October, 1939 [mod.note. Oops... managed to skip this one, so here it is, a day late. Today's edition was posted yesterday. Sorry. - Bill ] The panzerschiffe Deutschland captures the American freighter City of Flint in the North Atlantic. The freighter is eventually released, and returns to Baltimore on 27 January, 1940. The Soviet Union and Germany conclude a mutual trade pact. Italy indicates her intention to remain neutral in Europe, and offers friendship pacts to Yugoslavia and Hungary. Finland approaches Germany and Sweden for support against feared Soviet demands. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "The more American ships cruising along the South American coast the better, as you, sir, would no doubt hear what they saw or did not see. Raider might then find American waters rather crowded..." - Winston Churchill, referring to the Graf Spee in a claundestine letter to Pres. Roosevelt