Posted on 08/03/2011 5:32:07 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance
The News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 10
East Asia-From Which Japan Would Carve a “Co-Prosperity Sphere” (map) – 11
Japan is Seen Bound to her Course in Asia – 12
West Coast Wants Japan Stopped (by Richard L. Neuberger and Arthur Caylor) – 13
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 14
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f03aug41.htm
Germans surround Soviets near Pervomaysk
Sunday, August 3, 1941 www.onwar.com
On the Eastern Front... In the south another German encircling move closes near Pervomaysk on the Bug River.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/03.htm
August 3rd, 1941
GERMANY: In his Sunday sermon today the Bishop of Munster, Clemens August Graf, courageously spoke out against the Nazi murders of the sick and the old. He said: “It is a terrible doctrine which seeks to justify the murder of innocent people and which allows the violent killing of invalids, cripples, the incurably ill, the old and the weak who are no longer able to work ... once the principle that it is permissible to kill “unproductive” humans has been admitted and applied then we must all pity ourselves when we, too, grow old and weak.”
FINLAND: After three days’ intense fighting the divisions of Maj. Gen. Laatikainen’s II Corps break through Soviet defences in southern Karelia. (Mikko Härmeinen).
LATVIA: Jelgavia: SS Einsatz-Kommandos under Lieutenant Hamann murder 1,550 Jews.
U.S.S.R.: A German encircling movement closes on Russian forces near Pervomaysk on the Bug.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: HMS Maplin, a fighter catapult ship, scores her first success when a Hurricane launched from her deck shoots down a Focke-Wulf Condor.
CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Quinte launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: US President Franklin D Roosevelt travels from Washington, DC to the Naval Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut by train. In the evening, he boards the presidential yacht USS Potomac (AG-25) and, accompanied by the tender USS Calypso (AG-35), sets sail to Point Judith, Rhode Island, where the ships anchor for the night. (Jack McKillop)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: The German submarine U-401 is sunk southwest of Ireland, in position 50.27N, 19.50W, by depth charges from the RN’s destroyer HMS Wanderer and corvette HMS Hydrangea and the Norwegian destroyer HMS St. Albans (I-15) (formerly USS THOMAS (DD-182)). All hands on the U-boat, 45 men, are lost. (Jack McKillop and Rom Babuka)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-14374541
“Douglas Bader’s World War II autograph book sells for £33,600”
SAN FRANCISCO AROUSED
They Are Asking for it, Let Them Have It, Seems Public’s view
..................Yet California approaches this attitude from a national viewpoint, which apparently has almost no connection with its local anti-Japanese record - the result of the domestic land and labor problems.’...................
-————————————Rather, this attitude is more sympathetic here than elsewhere. Newspapers, for instance, run front page pictures of Japanese Boy Scouts and Legionnaires gathering scrap aluminum in the civilian defense drive. This is perhaps due to the fact that ant-Japanese sentiment had already reached a peak, largely through Chinese efforts. San Francisco long ago became used to a boycott of Japanese goods...........................
SAN FRANCISCO AROUSED
They Are Asking for it, Let Them Have It, Seems Public’s view
..................Yet California approaches this attitude from a national viewpoint, which apparently has almost no connection with its local anti-Japanese record - the result of the domestic land and labor problems.’...................
-————————————Rather, this attitude is more sympathetic here than elsewhere. Newspapers, for instance, run front page pictures of Japanese Boy Scouts and Legionnaires gathering scrap aluminum in the civilian defense drive. This is perhaps due to the fact that ant-Japanese sentiment had already reached a peak, largely through Chinese efforts. San Francisco long ago became used to a boycott of Japanese goods...........................
...........There is little doubt that the rumpus in the Orient has quelled, if not completely silenced hostility here to extending the service of selectees. With isolationists and peace societies approving the declaration of economic warfare against Tokyo, newspaper editors report that letters condemning the prolongations of Army service have fallen off tremendously. This supports a theory often voiced that if the Northwest ever approves entrance into the war it will be through the back door the the Pacific rather than in the European sector.
8. British schoolchildren, who are going to be taught more American history, will probably learn about the first severe engagement of the American Revolution, which took place on Breed’s Hill at Charlestown, Mass, on June 17,1775. What’s the battle usually called?
Pork Chop Hill? Hamburger Hill? Veal Cutlet Hill?
General Verdillac isn’t much on personal space is he.
Here is a little history on the Jeep. August 6 testimony from the Bantam Car company. From the Ford Archives.
http://www.ewillys.com/?p=66713#comments
Of course they are right, at least up to a point.
The issue is, where exactly was that point?
How much information did FDR's inner circle have about the coming attack on Pearl Harbor, and could they have better warned Kimmel & Short?
I think they knew, or suspected, more and could have better warned their Pacific commanders.
But a lot of people disagree with me, even here on Free Republic. ;-)
It is said of these patients: They are like an old machine which no longer runs, like an old horse which is hopelessly paralyzed, like a cow which no longer gives milk.What do we do with a machine of this kind? We put it in a junkyard. What do we do with a paralyzed horse? No, I do not wish to push the comparison to the end…We are not talking here about a machine, a horse, nor a cow…No, we are talking about men and women, our compatriots, our brothers and sisters. Poor unproductive people if you wish, but does this mean that they have lost their right to live?
While that is bold speech in the Third Reich, what he said that was even more powerful and bold was a condemnation of those involved in the euthanasia program.
We wish to withdraw ourselves and our faithful from their influence, so that we may not be contaminated by their thinking and their ungodly behavior, so that we may not participate and share with them in the punishment which a just God should and will pronounce upon all those who – like ungrateful Jerusalem – do not wish was God wishes.
July 1-August 31, 1941:
"Members of the Einsatzgruppen, the Wehrmacht, and Esalon Special, a Romanian unit, kill more than 150,000 Jews in Bessarabia, a region of eastern Romania."
August 3:
"Twelve hundred Jews are arrested by the local Einsatzgruppen at Chernovtsy, Romania; 682 are executed by German and Romanian police.
Fifteen hundred Jews are murdered at Mitau, Latvia.
Several hundred Jewish professionals are shot at Stanislawów, Ukraine."
Thanks for the links. Speaking of the White Rose movement, have you watched “Sophie Scholl: The Final Days”. It’s a really well done movie of her capture, “conviction” and death.
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