[Homer_J_Simpson]

Plane Loss Heavy – 2
88% of British Back Churchill in Survey – 2
The International Situation – 3
Athens is Warned – 4-5
Walsh Calls Sale of Ships Act of War – 5
Mrs. Churchill Officiates at Opening of Soldiers Club – 5
Army Plans Upset by Delay in Draft; Wheeler Hits Bill – 6-7
British Disperse German Warships – 8
War Guilt Charge Lodged in France – 8
Quezon is Reported Planning Visit Here – 8
Britain Rings Her Coast with Blockhouses as an Extra Defense Measure (photo) – 9
Biggest Nazi Raids Bomb Coast Areas (C. Brooks Peters) – 10
Invaders of Britain Expected to Use Gas – 10
Britons Refuse to Let Nazi Raids Fluster Them – 10
Twenty-Two Miles of Water – Britain’s Great Defense Against Invasion (photo) – 11
Somaliland Gains Reported by Italy (by Joseph M. Levy) – 12
Lithuania Voids Church Weddings’ Legality; Divorce Is Introduced in Catholic Country – 12
Newport Our ‘Gibraltar’ Under Plan Navy Studies – 12
The Day in Washington – 12
Australian Crash Killed Ten Men – 13
Transport Loading American Refugees – 13
Clipper at Canton, is Held for Repairs – 13
Three Waves of Bombers Raid Southampton; 100 Civilians in Shelter Escape Direct Hit – 14
British Shell Has Cable To Entangle Nazi Planes – 14
Says Willkie’s Dictum Holds Fate of Draft Bill – 14
Nazi Boast of Ruling Air Cut Off by British Raid – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 15-16

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/aug40/f14aug40.htm

British give secrets to Americans

Wednesday, August 14, 1940 www.onwar.com

In the United States... Sir Henry Tizard heads a British scientific mission to the United States, carrying with him details of all of Britain’s most advanced thinking in several vital fields. There are ideas on jet engines, explosives, gun turrets and above all a little device called the cavity magnetron. This valve is vital for the development of more advanced types of radar, including the versions used in proximity fuses later and the types working on centimetric wavelengths which will be vital at sea in the U-boat war. The US Official History will later describe this collection as the “most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores.”

Over Britain... The weather is less good for flying, and the Luftwaffe confines itself to small-scale operations which include raids on Hastings and Southampton. About 500 sorties are flown by each side. The RAF loses eight planes, the German 19.

[BroJoeK]

And this article on page 14:

"Says Vichy Assures Jews

"No Anti-Semitic Laws Planned, Correspondent Declares

"...Mr. Herman quoted 'high officials,' whom he did not name, as stating that

'no anti-Semitic laws will ever be permitted or drawn up against Jews in France.'

"The dispatch pointed out that laws against foreigners in France were not directed against Jews as such, but that Jews who were foreigners might be affected..."

..."'The Jews can rest assured that no anti-Semitic laws will ever be adopted and that the spread of anti-Semitism will not be permitted,' the correspondent quoted officials as saying."

Whew! What a relief... Jews are safe in France.

[BroJoeK]

"Walsh Calls Sale of Ships Act of War – 5"

Of course it was.
By 1940 the US was doing everything we could to help Britain, and prepare ourselves for war against Germany.

The official fiction that America was still somehow "neutral" could be maintained only because Hitler preferred it to the alternative.

In Hitler's mind, an America still struggling with its own conscience over getting into some "foreign war" was still vastly less effective than would be America fully committed to the destruction of Nazi Germany.

So Hitler did his best to avoid provoking the US into an official declaration of war, regardless of how much we did to support his enemy, Britain.