military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (07/21/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 22 July, 1940 Viscount Halifax, speaking on a worldwide broadcast, pledges that Britain will not seek peace with Germany until victory is achieved. At a meeting of Pan-American Foreign Ministers, Secretary of State Cordell Hull proposes that the 21 American republics form a "collective trusteeship" to govern European possessions in the Americas in the event of the conquest of the owning power. In the belief that there will be public uprisings against Nazi rule, Britain forms the Special Operations Executive to support these movements. The SOE is given the task of equipping and supporting resistance fighters in German and occupied lands. An RAF Blenheim scores the first victory by new British AI-carrying (Airborne Interception) night fighters, downing a Do 17 near Brighton. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "We shall not cease fighting until freedom for ourselves and others is secured." - Viscount Halifax, British Foreign Secretary