military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (06/12/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 10 June, 1941 The British House of Commons debates the defeat on Crete, with some members condemning the administration for repeating the same mistake made in Norway. Churchill states, however, that the decision will be important in the future. Bolivia, rejecting a Japanese bid, agrees to sell its entire tungsten output for the next three years to the United States. In East Africa, Indian troops are landed and capture the port of Assab. Assab was Italy's last port on the Red Sea. Mussolini announces that Italian troops are to occupy Greece. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "If this principle of giving up without a fight any place you cannot be sure of holding were adopted, would not the enemy be able to make an unlimited number of valuable conquests without any fighting at all ?" - Winston Churchill