[Homer_J_Simpson]

500,000 ‘Isolated’ – 2-4
Britain Withdraws Writers With B.E.F. – 3
Premier is Candid – 6
Allows Invaded Nations To Open U.S. Bank Boxes – 6
Merchant Ships Sunk in War – 6
President Speeds Defense Program; Appeals for Unity – 7-8
Women, Children Begin Evacuation of Gibraltar – 8
‘Chutists and Cyclists Set Fires Behind Allied Lines – 10
Wild Mushrooms Hunted For Reich’s Food Supply – 10
British Fight Hard to Avoid Disaster – 11
Aachen is Bombed Heavily by Allies – 12
Allies Fight Back at Furious Drives – 13-14
Nazis Report Capture of Giraud; Say General Walked Into a Trap – 15
Anti-Tank Defense Aids Nazi Advance (by Percival Knauth) – 16
London, Not Paris, Called Hitler’s Main Goal; Aim to Carry War to British Isles Is Seen – 16
Dutch People Try to Find New Life (by Oscar Mohr) – 17
The International Situation – 18
Text of the Day’s War Communiques - 19

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/may40/f22may40.htm

Germans strike north along Channel

Wednesday, May 22, 1940 www.onwar.com

On the Western Front... The German forces on the Channel coast turn their attacks to the north toward Boulogne and Calais. The Belgian forces retreat to the Lys.

In Paris... Churchill is discussing plans for an Allied offensive. Once more Weygand proposes an attempt to cut the German line to the Channel by attacks from the north and south. It is agreed that this should be attempted but in reality there is little with which to implement the plan.

In London... Parliament passes an Emergency Powers Act giving the government sweeping powers over the persons and property of British citizens.

[BroJoeK]

"London, Not Paris, Called Hitler’s Main Goal; Aim to Carry War to British Isles Is Seen – 16"

About a year ago I posted a quote from David Murphy's 2005 book, "What Stalin Knew."
It was a report submitted to Stalin by his intelligence chief, Ivan I. Proskurov. The report was titled:

"The Future Plans of Aggression by Fascist Germany in the Estimation of an Official of the German Foreign Ministry, Kleist".

The report quoted Dr. Peter Kleist, head of the Eastern Department of Ribbentrop's office, to senior officers of the German embassy in in Warsaw during Kleist's visit there on May 2, 1939. Remember, this was months before the war started.

May 2 was also the date Stalin replaced his Jewish foreign minister, Litvinov with Molotov -- preliminary to negotiating the Nonaggression Pact with Germany.

Just to review the May 1939 report, quoting Kleist:

"Germany at the present moment is in the first phase of its military consolidation in the east, which, without regard to ideological considerations, must be achieved by whatever means.

"After the merciless cleansing of the east will come the western phase that must end in the defeat of France and England either by military or by political means.

"Only after this can one count on the feasibility of the destruction of the Soviet Union. At the present time we are still in the phase of military consolidation in the East. It is Poland's turn next..."

Now already in May 1940, Proskurov is picking up signs of Hitler's intention toward Russia. His first general report on it will go to Stalin on June 4, then a very specific report two days later.

Of course, I'm not trying to "predict" those reports today, merely saying what Proskurov was already hearing at the end of May 1940... ;-)