military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/03/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 3 October, 1939 The French withdrawal from occupied Germany is completed. The U.S. Congress is dominated by the issue of arms sales; a bill has been introduced to modify the Neutrality Act to allow the sale of armaments to belligerent nations. Such sale would be on a "Cash and Carry" basis; Cash payment up front, and merchandise to be Carried away by the buyers' ships. Debate is heated on both sides of the issue -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "When in the next few days flags wave over German lands, when bells peal out Victory, you German mothers may feel proud, you who bore us children who fought on the front or at home !" - Rudolf Hess