British send fighters for Malta
Friday, August 2, 1940 www.onwar.com
HMS Argus, left, carrying Hurricanes for Malta. They will take off and fly 400 miles to the island.
In the Mediterranean... The carrier Ark Royal with Force H attacks the Italian base on Sardinia at Cagliari. The old carrier Argus which is also based on Gibraltar, is at sea to fly off a cargo of Hurricane fighter aircraft to Malta.
In the English Channel... There are German attacks on shipping.
In London... Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production is taken into the inner circle of Churchill’s War Cabinet.
I see that on the front page that the Dems made long time Bronx party leader Flynn the National Dem Chairman. My Irish grandmother, who has been gone for about forty years now, was a party worker for ‘Boss’ Flynn, back in the 20’s and 30’s. He also held the antique sounding title of ‘Chamberlain of the City of New York’, which no longer exists. He was succeeded as Bronx Boss by Charles A. Buckley, who was the party leader into the 1960’s.
You would not know it from this particular article, but two of the three anti-draft senators were Democrats, one a Republican.
The one Republican was the highly notable North Dakota Senator Gerald Nye:
"In 1934 Senator Nye headed an investigation of the munitions industry.
He created headlines by drawing connections between the wartime profits of the banking and munitions industries to America's involvement in World War I."Many Americans felt betrayed: perhaps the war hadn't been an epic battle between the forces of good (democracy) and evil (autocracy).
"This investigation of these "merchants of death" helped to bolster sentiments for isolationism.1
A leading member of the Nye Committee staff was Alger Hiss..."...Nye was instrumental in the development and adoption of the Neutrality Acts passed between 1935 and 1937.
To mobilize antiwar sentiments, he helped establish the America First Committee."Upon the bombing of Pearl Harbor on the evening of December 7, 1941, Nye addressed an America First meeting in Pittsburgh, and was quoted as saying, "this was just what Britain had planned for us" and that "we have been maneuvered into this by the President."
"However, the next day Nye joined the rest of the Senate in voting for a unanimous declaration of war.[3]
"Nye was a Freemason and attended Grace Lutheran Church in Washington, DC.
He gained further prominence in 1941 when he accused Hollywood of attempting to “drug the reason of the American people,“ and “rouse war fever.“
He was particularly hostile to Warner Brothers."