[Homer_J_Simpson]

Senator Drafted – 2
Convention Broadcast Aids $9,000 Gem Theft – 2
Willkie Approves Platform, Opposes Big Campaign Gifts – 3
Text of Willkie’s Address – 3 Hamilton Status Yet to be Decided – 4
The International Situation – 5
Reds are Fired On – 6-7

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jun40/f29jun40.htm

Germans publish Allied plans

Saturday, June 29, 1940 www.onwar.com

In Berlin... The German government publishes the “White Book” which contains details of Allied plans to intervene in the Low Countries.

[wagglebee]

It’s kind of odd but I stumbled upon something rather strange that would have happened had the GOP won the election in 1940.

Charles McNary would have been VP and, assuming nothing else changed, would have died in February, 1944 leaving the office of Vice President vacant.

Wendell Willkie would have been President and, assuming nothing else changed, would have died in October, 1944 leaving the offices of President AND Vice President vacant.

This would have created as scenario in the middle of the biggest war in history where Congress would have had to elect a president under the 20th Amendment.