military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (02/08/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Saturday, 8 February, 1941 British mail censors anger Japan; the freighter Yamafuji is halted by British ships at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, and its mail cargo is confiscated. Japan files an official protest. Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, commander of Italian forces in North Africa, writes Mussolini requesting his own recall and replacement. German and Bulgarian military leaders finalize plans for deployment of German troops to that country. Britain warns that she will bomb Bulgaria if German troops move in. The US House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Bill by a vote of 260 to 165. Germany announces the formation of a new province, Moselland, containing the former Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, along with Coblenz-Trier. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Nazism just cannot be allowed to win. If it did it would not be long before every nation, small or great, would become its vassal and the standard of civilization would revert to that of the ninth century." - Seymore Jacklin