[Homer_J_Simpson]

French Await Note – 2-3
The International Situation – 4
Britons Instructed How to Act in an Invasion: ‘Stay Put,’ Ignore Rumors, Give Nazis Nothing – 4
Churchill in Plea – 5
Mexican Cabinet Approves Compulsory Service Law – 5
Text of Prime Minister Churchill’s Address Before House of Commons – 6-8
Munich Is Gay as Dictators Meet; Peace Hope Adds to Crowd’s Joy – 8
For 2-Ocean Navy – 9
Major French Naval Units Join British at Alexandria – 10
Nazis Raid Thames; British Bomb Reich – 11
Roosevelt Proposes Training For Youth in Vast Program (by Felix Belair Jr.) – 12
French Shift to Britain Of Funds Here Reported – 12
Can Britain Win? (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 13
Churchill’s Quotation from Ode on Cromwell – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 14-15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jun40/f19jun40.htm

Poles evacuated from France

Wednesday, June 19, 1940 www.onwar.com

On the Western Front... On the Loire Nates and Saumur are taken. In Brittany Brest falls and in central France, between the Saone and the Loire, the Germans are approaching Lyons. There are more evacuations from the west coast. In the following week 19,000, mostly Poles, are taken off from Bayonne and St. Jean-de-Luz. Since Dunkirk 144,171 British, 18,246 French, 24,352 Poles, 4938 Czechs and a few Belgians have got away.

[henkster]

The “Two Ocean Navy” act looks like it’s on the fast track to passage. The Japanese don’t realize it, but they are about to lose WW2.