military@cbnews.att.com (09/30/89)
Monday, 2 October, 1939 The last pocket of Polish resistance continues, surrounded at Kock. Britain organizes special tribunals, to examine over 50,000 enemy aliens living in the London area. 21 American nations, meeting in Panama, establish the Pan-American Security Zone, which ranges from 300 to 600 miles outward from the coast of the Americas. Any hostile activity within this zone is to be considered an act of war against the Americas. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Let there be no mistake here, however. The moment could come very suddenly when we could use a weapon with which we could not be attacked... We Germans do not like that. It is not in our nature." - Adolf Hitler