military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (06/29/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Saturday, 29 June, 1940 Germany releases a "White Book" revealing alleged Allied plans to invade the Low Countries, forestalled by Germany's attack. The government of France relocates from Bordeaux to Vichy. Six thousand Polish troops leave Syria for British-held Palestine, to join with British forces there and avoid surrendering with the French troops in Syria. The US Army prepares to test the air defenses of the Panama Canal, as the Navy installs anti-submarine nets on the Pacific side of the canal. Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita broadcasts his view of East Asia and the South Seas area as a group of satellite states under Japanese influence. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "All mankind longs for peace, but peace cannot endure unless nations have their proper places." - Hachiro Arita