military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (07/12/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday 12 July, 1940 The Luftwaffe continues to raid Britain and Channel shipping. A night raid on Aberdeen claims 60 lives. Britain and Japan announce that they have reached a satisfactory solution to the Burma Road problem. Britain has reportedly offered to close the road to certain kinds of materials for a period of several months. President Roosevelt remains aloof from the Democratic primary race. He announces that he will not attend the upcoming party convention in Chicago, despite efforts by Senator Byrnes and Secretary of Commerce Hopkins to "draft" him into running for a third term. It is uncertain whether they are, in fact, acting with Roosevelt's agreement. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "We should be wise enought to keep in mind always that there is no wisdom in making alliances that will only cripple and embroil us in destructive and perhaps race suicidal warfare." - Richard C. Motlan, in a letter to the New York Times