News of the Week in Review
Additional author not named in header: G.H. Archambault
Twenty News Questions – 13
Republican Defeatism is Noted in the East – 15-16
To Attack or Not: Hitler’s Heavy Problem – 17-18
The North Sea Area Arena of Sea and Air Warfare (Map) – 19
Air War Comes Nearer as Days Grow Longer – 20-21
Low Countries are Alert – 22
Men at Front Never Idle – 23
Answers to Twenty News Questions - 24
Mr Dewey could have been speaking of another really bad president.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jan40/f21jan40.htm
In the Pacific... The Japanese liner Asamu Maru is stopped by the cruiser HMS Gloucester off of Honshu and 21 German technicians are removed.
In the North Atlantic... All 175 crew are lost when German U-22 sinks the British destroyer HMS Exmouth.
The Winter War... Finnish Blenheim bombers raid Kronstadt naval base, near Leningrad. Soviet aircraft bomb Oulu, in northwestern Finland.
From the Vatican... Pope Pius XII condemns Nazi rule in Poland in a radio broadcast to the USA which emphasizes the terror campaign against Catholic clergy.
In London... Britain rejects American protests concerning the examination of mail carried aboard US merchant ships.
In Britain... The Duke of Windsor (who, as Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936) takes leave after a five month tour of duty with the British Expeditionary Force in France.
In China... Two former associates of Wang Ching-wei, head of the Japanese sponsored Chinese government in Nanking, publish a text of an agreement, signed by Wang, giving Japan total political and economic dominion in China. Wang issues a strenuous denial.
In the Mediterranean... The Italian liner Orazio catches fire off Barcelona (104 dead). French destroyers rescue survivors.