military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (11/26/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 25 November, 1940 Britain's newest prototype aircraft, the De Havilland Mosquito, makes it maiden flight. In Haifa, the Zionist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi blows up the SS Patria, to prevent that ship from being used to deport Palestinian Jews. Some casualties are incurred by her 1800 passengers, mostly refugees from eastern Europe being deported under a British law forbidding Jewish immigration to Palestine. Sir Kingsley Wood, Britian's Chancellor of the Exchequer, states that the daily cost of the war is now 9.1 million pounds. American Federation of Labor president William Green pledges that no strike will be allowed to interfere with production needed for the defense of the United States or Great Britain. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "We are confronted with what is undoubtedly the most far-reaching crisis that has ever faced the United States during the 150 years of its existence." - Secretary of War Stimson