military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (12/17/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 17 December, 1940 As the British offensive into Libya continues to bag thousands of prisoners, internment camps are set up at several sites in India for 20,000 Italians. Three more Italian positions near the Egyptian border are occupied. President Roosevelt announces a new plan for aid to Britain. He suggests that war materials could be lent to Britain, to be returned at the war's end. The British destroyer HMS Acheron is lost to a mine off the Isle of Wight. Meanwhile, the US Navy places orders for an additional 40 destroyers. Former French Vice Premier Laval is released from custody at the request of Otto Abetz, the German ambassador to Vichy France. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "The fact is we feel already that we have won the war and therefore are concentrating on the future new order in Europe and economic and cultural relations with the rest of the world, especially with the Americas." - German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels