http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/mar40/f28mar40.htm
Allied Supreme War Council meets
Thursday, March 28, 1940 www.onwar.com
From Paris... In their Supreme War Council the British and French decide to make a formal agreement that neither will make a separate peace. In the same meeting it is also decided to mine Norwegian coastal waters and, if the Germans seem ready to interfere, to send a military expedition to Norway. The contingency plan prepared for such an eventuality has had to be abandoned, however, because the excuse for landings in Norway was to have been a clause in the constitution of the League of Nations allowing transit for troops if they were going to the aid of a victim of aggression. This is now invalid, of course, because of the Finnish surrender. The operation is timed to start on April 5th but is later deferred to April 8th — a vital difference in view of the timing the Germans fix for their own landings.
In Canada... Mackenzie King’s Liberal Party is returned to power in the Canadian elections.
In Washington... Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of State, reports to Roosevelt about his mission to the belligerent countries in Europe.
"Some, followers of an irreligious culture and policy, enclosing themselves in the pride of human reason have shut the door on the very idea of Divinity and the supernatural, driving the Creator away from creation, removing the image of the Divine Crucified Master from schools and tribunes, eliminating any mention of the Bible from national, social and family institutions, although without being able to erase the profound traces.
"Others have fled far from Christ and his peace, denying centuries of luminous, beneficent and fraternal civilization to lose themselves in the shadows of antique paganism and modern idolatries."
There's still a lot of that going around.
And on the same page - "Hearst Castle 'Requisitioned'." He could avoid that by moving it to San Simeon, California.
"The Soviet Union is planning big changes in the inland waterways shipping system to increase the facilities for the transport of oil."New oil-carrying barges for use on the Moscow-Volga River system are about to be constructed..."
I wonder if Adolf Hilter realizes how important these oil carrying barges on the Volga might be? Especially right there, where the Volga & Don come so close?
"In the current issue of Bezhbozhnik, organ of the Militant Atheists, Pope Pius is attacked as "an ally of the Anglo-French imperialists in seeking to extend the war...""...Attitude of Girl Condemned
"In the Komsomolskaya Pravda, V. Razorenova, instructor of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth group, reports the case of a 17-year-old student in an intermediary school, who, he says, has been under the influence of Baptists, who have reared her in a spirit of religious fanaticism.
"What can be said of a school from whose wall emerges a person with deep-rooted nonsensical religious notions and blind faith in 'holy writings'? he asks...
The writer demands more speeches and agitation articles in the local press against religion.
"Fanatical" Baptists? Who knew? Kind of chokes me up...
And in what way, exactly, are our public schools today different from those?