military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (08/01/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Thursday, 1 August, 1940 Japan announces its intention to create a "New Order in Greater East Asia," including Manchukuo, China, French Indo-China, and the Netherlands East Indies. Premier Prince Konoye declares that Japan will no longer humor nations which refuse to cooperate with this aim. Among the German air raids over Britain are numerous propaganda missions, in which leaflets bearing Hitler's July 19th "Last Appeal to Reason" speech are dropped. Hitler sets 15 September as the date for Operation Sea Lion. A compromise plan between the Army and Navy proposals is adopted, and the Luftwaffe is ordered to destroy the Royal Air Force. The Italian destroyer Vivaldi rams and captures the submarine HMS Oswald. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "The Japanese Government is through with toadying... from now on Japan will not make vain efforts to shake hands with countries who cannot be turned into friends." - Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka