military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (06/04/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 6 June, 1941 The United States enacts a new law allowing inactive foreign ships to be taken under American control. Some 84 ships are immediately affected by the legislation. Japan warns that the Netherlands East Indies government's reply to its demand for increased exports is "unsatisfactory." Two Royal Navy carriers, HMS Ark Royal and HMS Furious, ferry Hurricane fighters to within flying distance of Malta. The Luftwaffe begins withdrawing its Syrian-based aircraft. Hitler warns Japan that war may soon break out between Germany and the USSR. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "It has been said that both the President and I in our campaigns promised to avoid war and that after the election both of us changed and became warmongers. I have no right to speak for the President. But let me say flatly, I am no warmonger." - Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican Presidential candidate.