[Homer_J_Simpson]

London Stand Firm – 2
The International Situation – 3
Navy Lets Contract For Two Cruisers – 3
Finns Repulse Attacks on Gulf Ice; 100 Die as Russians Bomb Hospital – 4-5
Viborg Again ‘Liberated,’ Russian Paper Declares – 5
The End of a British Minesweeper in the North Sea (Photograph) – 6
Incidents in European Conflict – 7
Merchant Ships Sunk in War – 7
Rumanian Industry Under Cabinet Rule - 7

[Peter W. Kessler]

Here’s a link to the questions on the 1940 Census:

http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/1940/general-info.html#questions

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/mar40/f06mar40.htm

Finnish delegation heads for Moscow

Wednesday, March 6, 1940 www.onwar.com

The Winter War... A Finnish delegation leaves for Moscow, led by Ryti and Juho Kusti Paasikivi (an experienced politician and diplomat). Mannerheim, seeing it is useless to continue the once-sided struggle against the Soviet Union, has accepted that there must be talks. The delegation arrives the following day.

In the North Sea... German aircraft bomb and machinegun two lightships.

In Paris... France and Italy conclude a trade agreement providing for an increase in the volume of trade between the two countries.