Editorials – 14-15
The War at Sea
Finland’s Danger
Japan’s Unchanging Aims
Restraints By Unions
Southern Weather
New Zealand, 100 Years Young
The Commonwealth Fund
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jan40/f25jan40.htm
Canadian election over war preparation
Thursday, January 25, 1940 www.onwar.com
In Canada... Parliament is dissolved for an election on March 28th because of recent controversy over the alleged weakness of war preparations.
In Occupied Poland... The “Goring-Frank Circular” is issued. It specifies that all material resources and manpower is to be ruthlessly exploited for the immediate benefit of the Reich. Copies of this top secret document are soon obtained by the Polish government-in-exile in France and widely publicized.
In Brussels... The Belgian Foreign Minister rejects Churchill’s appeal to join the Allies (issued in a speech on January 20th).
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/25.htm
January 25th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM:
Tug HMS Impetus launched.
Destroyer HMS Exmoor launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
BELGIUM: The Belgian Foreign Minister rejects British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s appeal to join the Allies that was issued in a speech on 20 January. (Jack McKillop)
NORTH SEA: At 0230, SS Biarritz was torpedoed by U-14 36 nautical miles NW of Ymuiden. She sank quickly and only one lifeboat with 19 people set off. 26 crewmen and 11 passengers (among them several women) died. 21 survivors and three bodies were picked up by the Norwegian SS Borgholm, which sailed nearby and were taken to Ymuiden. Several passengers were sailors who had paid off their ships and were on their way home.
U-19 sank SS Everene five miles off Longstone Lighthouse, Farne Islands.
At 2130, SS Gudveig was torpedoed and sunk by U-19 4.5 miles east of Longstone Lightvessel, north of Newcastle. Eight survivors were rescued and taken to Methil. Four of them probably by the Norwegian SS Vim. (Dave Shirlaw)
POLAND: The “Goring-Frank Circular” is issued. It specifies that all material resources and manpower is to be ruthlessly exploited for the immediate benefit of the Reich. Copies of this top secret document are soon obtained by the Polish government-in-exile in France and widely publicized. (Jack McKillop)
A site near the village of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) is selected for construction of a concentration camp. (Jack McKillop)
CANADA: Parliament is dissolved for an election on 28 March because of recent controversy over the alleged weakness of war preparations. (Jack McKillop)
U.S.A.: The motion picture “The Shop Around the Corner” opens at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, this romantic comedy stars Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Frank Morgan. (Jack McKillop)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: SS Tourny sunk by U-44. (Dave Shirlaw)
The Vatican and the Church in general has been much in the news this last week. There are articles on Jan. 18 (image #5), Jan. 19 (#3), Jan 20 (#5), Jan 21 (# 4&5), Jan 23 (#13), and today (#9). Though the Catholic Church is not explicitly named, there was an article about planned parenthood in the Jan. 24 issue. I forget the number but it is on the table of contents.
This report names about a dozen Catholic clergy murdered by Nazis in Poland. As CougarGA7 said, the Nazis were barely getting started.
iirc, by war's end the totals in addition to millions of Jews and Christians murdered, about 2,000 clergy in Poland plus another 1,000 in other parts of Europe.
Nazi propaganda made it sound like only a war against the Jews. In fact it was a war against all religion that would not bow to Nazism.