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Helsinki Bombed as Soviet Presses Offensive in Air – 2-4
The International Situation – 4
Tokyo Cabinet Out; Premier is Sought Among Generals – 5
Tobin Asks Revolt By Rank and File to End Labor Split – 6
Painters Move to Picket City Hotels in Union Row – 6
France and Spain Agree on Balanced Trade; Pact Covers Big Exchange of Needed Goods – 7
Germany Waging ‘Population War’ – 8
British Sacrifice Vital, Simon Holds – 9
Belgium Recalls Troops on Leave – 10
Chinese Government to Go Into Business To End Scarcity and High Prices of Goods – 10
Visitor Finds Life in Warsaw Easier – 10-11
U.S. Asks Curb on Exports By Commodity Exchange – 11
Plane Every 4 Days is Boeing Production – 11
Incidents in European Conflict – 12

News of the Week in Review
Additional authors that didn’t fit in the header: Henry N. Dorris, Harold B. Hinton

Twenty News Questions – 14
Chamberlain’s Grip Firm After Shake-Up – 15-16
Big Defense Problem is in Lap of Congress – 17-20
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 21
Both Parties Seek Lynch Bill Credit – 22
Trade Pacts Loom as Issue – 23

Rotogravure Section - A New Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (posted for historical significance rather than photo quality. But note the fore-and-aft hats with the admirals’ dress uniforms.) - 24

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jan40/f14jan40.htm

A new government formed in Japan
Sunday, January 14, 1940 www.onwar.com

Mitsumasa YonaiIn Tokyo... The Japanese Prime Minister Abe and all his Cabinet resign and Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai is chosen to form a new government.

In Warsaw... Deaths, mainly from starvation, in the Jewish ghetto are estimated to be running at 70 per day.

In the United States... Eighteen members of the pro-Nazi Bund organization are arrested for conspiracy.

In the Winter War... Soviet aircraft drop bombs near Lulea, Sweden and violate Norwegian airspace.

In Moscow... Norway and Sweden issue diplomatic protests over the incidents involving Soviet aircraft engaged in the war against Finland.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/14.htm

January 14th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Bomber Command: 4 Grp. 51 Sqn. Two aircraft. ‘Security Patrols’ - Hornum - Borkum. Opposition light. Two enemy aircraft seen, but these did not attack. #

BELGIUM: Belgian troops at the southwest border and in the Ardennes area are forbidden to fire on French or English troops. (Jack McKillop)

GERMANY: The ‘Wehrmacht High Command [OKW]’ announced:

On the night of January 12, several enemy aircraft undertook reconnaissance flights over German territory. During the night an English aircraft tried to attack a North Frisian island; the bombs fells harmlessly into the sea.

U-432 is laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

POLAND: Warsaw: Deaths, mainly from starvation, in the Jewish ghetto are running at 70 a day.

SWEDEN: Soviet aircraft drop bombs near Lulea, Sweden and violate Norwegian airspace. (Jack McKillop)

FINLAND: Mrs. Hella Wuolijoki, the Finnish peace envoy, meets Madame Alexandra Kollontay, the Soviet Ambassador at Stockholm. They have an unofficial talk and Kollontay agrees to send a message to Moscow exploring the possibility of peace. (Mikko Härmeinen)

EUROPE: Leave is cancelled for all Dutch, Belgian and BEF troops.

GIBRALTAR: The US freighter SS Narbo, detained at Gibraltar by British authorities the previous day, is released to continue her voyage to Italy, Yugoslavia, and Greece, but not before some items from her cargo are removed as contraband. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.S.R..: Norway and Sweden issue diplomatic protests over the incidents involving Soviet aircraft engaged in the war against Finland. (Jack McKillop)

JAPAN: The Japanese Prime Minister, General ABE Nobuyki, and all his Cabinet resign and Admiral YONAI Mitsumasa is chosen to form a new government. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: Eighteen members of the pro-Nazi ‘Bund’ organisation are arrested for conspiracy.

PANAMA: The British Minister in Panama, Charles Dodd, transmits the response of the British government to a note sent by the President of Panama on behalf of the 21 American Republics concerning the violation of American neutrality that occurred in the Battle of the River Plate. The British “reserve their full belligerent rights in order to fight the menace presented by German action and policy and to defend that conception of law and that way of life, which they believe to be as dear to the peoples and Governments of America as they are to the peoples and Governments of the British Commonwealth of Nations.” (Jack McKillop)

ANTARCTICA: USN auxiliary USS Bear (AG-29) reaches Bay of Whales. Along with Interior Department motorship USMS North Star, USS Bear will establish the two bases to be used in the U.S. Antarctic Service’s 1939-1941 expedition under Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, USN (Retired). (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: The German auxiliary cruiser HK Pinquin captures a Norwegian whale factory ship and 13 whalers. (Jack McKillop)