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The International Situation – 1
Helsingfors Firm – 2-4
Incidents in European Conflict – 3
No Ships Damaged – 6-7
U-Boat, 2 Tankers Seen Off Key West* - 7

* I cut this one off mid-sentence. Sorry about that.

3 posted on 10/10/2009 5:30:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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5 posted on 10/10/2009 5:45:29 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/oct39/f10oct39.htm

Germans consider invasion of Norway
Tuesday, October 10, 1939

In Berlin... Admiral Raeder mentions to Hitler for the first time the possibility of invading Norway to secure naval and especially submarine bases (see December 8, 1939 and January 27, 1940). Churchill is, at this time, arguing in the British Cabinet that Norwegian coastal waters should be mined to interfere with German iron-ore traffic.

On the Western Front... German patrols are reportedly active and artillery exchanges take place.

In Paris... The French Prime Minister, Edouard Daladier, formally rejects the German peace proposals, made by Adolf Hitler on October 9th, in a national radio broadcast. He states that France will continue to fight for a definite guarantee of security in Europe.

In Finland... The Finns call up their reserves and begin the evacuation of some frontier districts, including Helsinki and Viborg.

In Moscow... A Soviet-Lithuanian Pact is signed, giving the USSR the use of bases in Lithuania. Vilna is restored to Lithuania from which it was annexed by Poland in 1922. This pact is the last in a series designed to ensure Soviet control of the Baltic.

In Riga... The Estonian government resigns. Uluots is appointed the new Prime Minister and Piip becomes the new Foreign Minister.

In Britain... Recruitment into the Women’s Land Army is suspended after 25,000 have enrolled.


6 posted on 10/10/2009 5:48:19 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Daladier#cite_note-8

On 6 October of that year, Hitler offered France as well as Great Britain a peace proposal. There were more than a few in the French government prepared to take Hitler up on his offer, but Daladier declared in a nationwide broadcast the next day “We took up arms against aggression. We shall not put them down until we have guarantees for a real peace and security, a security which is not threatened every six months.”[9].

Shirer, William The Collapse Of The Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940, 1969, De Capo Press, page 529.


7 posted on 10/10/2009 5:52:18 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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