military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (09/29/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Sunday, 29 September, 1940 Air activity over Britain is light during the day, with only two alarms being raised in London, but that city receives another heavy night attack. Poor autumn weather has set in over the Channel, but British experts warn that an invasion could still come during the "second Summer." The Governor General of Madagascar rejects an "ultimatum" from Gen. de Gaulle and remains aligned with the Vichy government. Turkish observers suggest that the German/Japanese alliance will eventually cause the USSR to join with Britain, which has no designs on Soviet soil. Japanese troops securing Indo-China mistakenly occupy an American-owned warehouse in Haiphong, but withdraw after a protest from the US Consul. Their commanding officer offers his apologies. Thailand demands adjustments of its border with Indo-China, and the Thai air force attacks military targets in the border zone in Indo-China. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "I say deliberately that if the United States continues for the next decade the present policy of piling deficit on deficit, if it continues to push adversity much longer, and if in addition to that among all of 130,000,000 people there is just one indispensable man, then the democratic way of life will shortly pass away from us." - Wendell L. Willkie.