[Homer_J_Simpson]

Rumania Increases Army, Bans Export of War Essentials – 2
Russians Testing Defenses in South – 4-5
The International Situation – 5
Chautemps Lauds Welles on Mission – 5
Huge Soviet Drive Renewed to Crush Finns on Isthmus – 7-8
British Shoot Down Two Heinkel Bombers; Newly Armed Trawlers Repel Nazi Raiders – 9
British Navy ‘Sees’ Over the Horizon – 10
Two London Bombs, Laid to I.R.A., Injure 28; Waltham Abbey Powder Plant Has Blast – 10
Loan Amortization Promised in Japan – 10
Finnish Ship Lost; Sighted Submarine – 11
Britain Honors Men of Graf Spee Fight – 11
The German ‘Goosestep’ at New High in Rome – 12

[Perdogg]

The Romanian line was breached at Stalingrad causing the Eastern front for the Germans to collapse.

[PzLdr]

The Italians called the “goosestep” the “Passo Romano”. Mussolini was taken with it on one of his trips to Germany [1938?]. But fair is fair. The Nazi salute was taken by Hitler from the Fascist salute.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/feb40/f23feb40.htm

British celebrate naval victory

Friday, February 23, 1940 www.onwar.com

In Britain... In a victory parade celebrating the destruction of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee in the battle of the River Plate, 700 officers and men of the cruisers HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter march through cheering crowds to Guildhall in London.

Over Occupied Czechoslovakia... During the night (February 23-24), RAF bombers conduct a leaflet reconnaissance raid on Prague.

From Helsinki... Finland repeats its request to Sweden and Norway to grant transit rights for foreign troops.

In the Faeroe Islands... The destroyer HMS Gurkha sinks a U-boat.