military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (07/17/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Wednesday, 17 July, 1940 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is nominated for the 1940 presidential race by the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. The Convention also arrives at a party platform, which includes strict isolationist planks, calling for non-intervention in foreign wars except in the case of an attack upon the United States. A new Japanese government is formed, with Prince Konoye at the head, and selects General Tojo as his Minister of War. General Franco of Spain, in a public speech, announces that Spain intends to regain Gibraltar from England. Other Spanish sources call for the re-unification of French and Spanish Morocco. Chief of Staff George C. Marshall calls for an army of 2 million soldiers, with 45 infantry and 10 armored divisions, as the minimum required to defend the western hemisphere. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "In the future the United States will have to view events in the Far East with increasing concern." - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek