[Homer_J_Simpson]

New Truce is Made – 2-3
Churchill Stiffer on Neutral Rights – 4
Allied Plane Losses Total 357, Nazis Say – 4
Text of Radio Address by Winston Churchill – 5-6
The International Situation – 6
‘Violent’ Nazi Fire Pounds Key Points – 8
Weygand in Paris, Talks with Premier – 8
130 U.S. Warships to be Used in ‘War’ – 9
U.S. Voters Still Strongly Favor Allies, Survey by Gallup Institute Indicates – 10
Uprising in Ecuador Reported Prevented – 10
Apathy of Parents is British Problem – 11
Paris Puts Historic Sites Under Government Care – 11
Twenty News Questions (from News of the Week in Review) – 12
Answers to Twenty News Questions - 13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/mar40/f31mar40.htm

German armed merchant cruiser sails

Sunday, March 31, 1940 www.onwar.com

In the North Atlantic... The first German armed merchant cruiser, Atlantis, sails for operations against Allied shipping. It will prove to be the most successful raider. In a cruise lasting until November 22, 1941 she will sink 22 ships of 145,700 tons.

[BroJoeK]

Much cud to chew over today! :

1. "Republicans Bow on Major Points"
   Don't we always? Isn't "bowing" what Republicans were made for, according to the NY Times?

2. "Mr. Churchill said the Allies were going to win the war..."
   Does Churchill then have any idea how desperate things will very soon become?

3. Nazi propaganda says allies lose 357 planes destroyed in battle, to 85 German planes lost.
   And where does the NY Times report -- fair and balanced -- the Allies' response?

4. US government to document Nazi propaganda efforts in America.
   Seems like a good idea.
   Wonder why they stopped doing that for wars the Democrats oppose?

5. The "Phony War" seems to be heating up in France.
   Wonder if this heralds anything important?

6. US Admiral James O. Richardson announces the Pacific naval war games, which will:
   • move the fleet to Hawaii,
     
   • practice attacks from aircraft carriers on the battleships at Pearl Harbor,
     
   • from which the fleet will never return,
     
   • and for complaints about which Richardson will be summarily fired by President Roosevelt, in November 1940.

7. There are just no two ways about it:
   
   • 84% of Americans still favor Allied victory over 1% who want the Germans to win.
     
   • But only 23% think the US should send our own troops to help out, even if France and Britain can't hold off the Germans.

8. Finally: 20 questions:
   -- exquisitely designed to remind all of us know-it-alls that we certainly, definitely and abysmally DO NOT! ;-)

   Thanks again Homer.

[henkster]

Interesting article on the planned naval maneuvers. It posits a fight between heavy surface units and a fast carrier/cruiser task force. I wonder how that worked out in the game. Oh, and if I were the navy, I would concentrate really hard on that “unglamorous” Part IV of their exercise...