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LEHMAN SIGNS BILL FOR CITY CONTROL OF TRANSIT BOARD (4/1/40)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, Cabrillo College Library | 4/1/40 | Warren Moscow, Robert P. Post

Posted on 04/01/2010 4:40:31 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: catholic; milhist; realtime; worldwarii
Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile.
1 posted on 04/01/2010 4:40:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Evolution of Plan Yellow, October 1939-January 1940
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939
2 posted on 04/01/2010 4:41:17 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

3 posted on 04/01/2010 4:41:57 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; GRRRRR; 2banana; henkster; ...
Lehman Signs Bill for City Control of Transit Board – 2-3
Belated Easter Parade Is Held On the First Real Day of Spring – 3
Four Children Perish With Woman Flier As Pleasure Plane Falls Ablaze in Seattle – 4
City Tax on Cigarettes Will Be Removed July 1 – 4
The International Situation – 4
61 Airplanes Wage West Front Fights – 5
Australia Restricts Non-Empire Imports – 5
Anglo-French ‘Nation’ Forecast After War; Would Solve Problem of Balancing Reich – 6-7
Vatican Disturbed by Reich’s Refusal – 7
4 posted on 04/01/2010 4:43:18 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/apr40/f01apr40.htm

Hitler approves invasion of Norway

Monday, April 1, 1940 www.onwar.com

In Berlin... Hitler approves the plans for the invasion of Norway.


5 posted on 04/01/2010 8:05:56 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/01.htm

April 1st, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: The government says that it will intervene to keep food prices down.
Douglas Bader, the brilliant pilot and rugby footballer who lost both legs when he crashed his Bristol Bulldog fighter in December 1931, is back in the cockpit, flying fighters again with the RAF. He left the RAF because he was no longer allowed to fly despite his mastery of his “tin legs”. But immediately the war was declared he started to pull strings until he was given a test on a trainer. All his old skill came flooding back - flying was still “a piece of cake”. No he can be seen stumping towards his Hurricane, as aggressive as ever, to fly patrols over Channel convoys, and when he takes of he flies like all the other pilots - only better than most.
This is one take on Bader, a somewhat controversial figure. Cris Wetton views from another angle.

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA: Parliament passes General Smuts’ War Measures Bill.

GERMANY: Hitler fixes the date of Operation Weserubung [Exercise Weser], the invasion of Norway and Denmark, at 9 April and orders preparations to start.

U.S.A.: “Broadcasting” magazine reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has suspended its order for “limited commercial” operation of TV, censures the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for their sales efforts which are seen as an attempt to freeze TV standards at the present level and calls a new hearing. Critics call the move “usurpation of power.” (Jack McKillop)

CANADA: Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA) begins transcontinental airline service today with a flight from Montreal, Quebec, to Vancouver, British Columbia. TCA operates 10-passenger Lockheed Model 14-H2 Super Electras and 14-passenger Lockheed Model 18-10 Lodestars. (Jack McKillop)

JAPAN: The prototype Mitsubishi A6M1, Navy Type 0 Carrier Fighter (assigned the Allied Code Name “Zeke” in 1942) makes its first flight at Kagamigahara. A total of 10,449 aircraft will be build during the war. (Jack McKillop)


6 posted on 04/01/2010 9:20:39 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Wow! An Anglo-French Union, the kernel of today’s European Union.


7 posted on 04/01/2010 9:53:38 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.-- Idylls of the King)
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http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 214 April 1, 1940

The invasion of Denmark and Norway is set for April 9. Hitler allocates 6 divisions (including specialist mountain infantry and paratroops) 20 light tanks and 3 experimental Neubaufahrzeug heavy tanks for Norway, plus 2 divisions for Denmark. Almost every available naval vessel will be used to transport or protect these troops. Luftwaffe will provide air support and chase off Royal Navy ships trying to intercede. This is in contrast to the small, mainly reserve, force the British intend to send to Norway without air cover.

Almost alone among the senior British military, Vice-Admiral Max Horton (commanding Royal Navy home-based submarines) anticipates a German invasion of Norway. He orders 12 submarines (including 2 French and 1 Polish vessels) to patrol the southern North Sea and the seas around Denmark, to intercept warships from naval bases German coast. HMS Sealion is the first to leave, departing Harwich naval base for the Kattegat, East of Denmark.


8 posted on 04/01/2010 11:08:54 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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A novelization of the attack of the destroyer, "HMS Glowworm" on the German heavy cruiser "Hipper" during the Norway invasion.

9 posted on 04/01/2010 11:12:22 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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Oops. Sorry I forgot to post this yesterday.

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10 posted on 04/02/2010 10:16:57 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (In order to dream of the future, we need to remember the past. - Bartov)
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"Vatican Disturbed by Reich’s Refusal – 7 "

"Cannot Send Men or Money Into Poland for Work of Charity"

"The German Government has refused to permit representatives of the holy see to see the Polish clergy and Catholics in Western Poland, it was authoritatively stated in Vatican quarters today..."

Least we forget -- of the approx. six million Poles who died in WWII, half were Jews, the other half Catholics.
Already in early 1940, the Vatican is deeply concerned, and Nazi death machines were not even fully cranked up yet.

But their refusal to allow Vatican representatives into Poland speaks as sinisterly as anything about the Nazis' future intentions.

11 posted on 04/02/2010 10:22:28 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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In this issue - -

There is a hard-hitting piece on the Sumner Welles European trip on page 30. In contains crucial data on the relative tallness of welles, Halifax and Ribbentrop.

There is a short biographical piece on General von Brauchitsch on page 58. Includes a good photo.

Nevile Henderson wrote the longest article in this week's issue. He relates his version of his time as ambassador to Berlin from 1937 until last September.

Doesn't this magazine have a table of contents?

12 posted on 04/02/2010 11:16:35 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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LOL. It does have a table of contents, but it is like alot of magazines I see today where there are about 30 pages of ads and letters before the table of contents shows up. In this case its on page 21. I also liked the review of the weapons used in the Winter War. Some nice pictures of what is basically the first cluster bomb.


13 posted on 04/02/2010 5:38:34 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (In order to dream of the future, we need to remember the past. - Bartov)
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