ROOSEVELT CHARGES ‘UNHOLY ALLIANCE’ OF RADICALS-REACTIONARIES FOR RIVAL (11/2/40)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 11/2/40 | Russell B. Porter, James C. Hagerty, Hanson W. Baldwin

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread

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Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

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Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

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Ovation in Kings – 2-3
Attacks Estimate – 4-5
The International Situation – 5
24 Italian Attacks – 6-7
Yugoslav Provinces Curb Sales of Firms – 7
Greeks Heartened by First War Gain – 7
Greeks Report Foe Foiled at Key Base – 8
Italy Held Curbed by Shortage of Oil – 9
The Italian Planes – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 10-11

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/nov40/f02nov40.htm

British sink U-31 again

Saturday, November 2, 1940 www.onwar.com

In the North Atlantic... German submarine U-31 is attacked and sunk by the British destroyer HMS Antelope. This is the second sinking of this submarine (see March 11, 1940).

In Greece... Italian aircraft bomb Salonika.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 429 November 2, 1940

100 miles Northwest of Ireland, British destroyer HMS Antelope brings U-31 to the surface with depth charges (2 dead) and U-31 is scuttled by the crew. As HMS Antelope takes off 43 survivors, she collides with U-31 causing structural damage (under repair until December). U-31 was previously sunk by a Bristol Blenheim of on March 11, 1940 and refloated later in March. U-31 is, thus, the only German submarine to sink twice in WWII. http://www.sharkhunters.com/U-31%20German%20Submarine.htm

Turkey declares neutrality in the war between Greece and Italy but keeps 37 divisions on the Bulgarian border and warns Bulgaria not to attack Greece. Delaying tactics by retreating Greek screening forces in the Epirus region, between the Pindus Mountains and the Ionian Sea, have slowed the Italian advance. The Italians reach the main Greek defensive line on the Kalamas river between Elia & Kalamas and here they are stopped. In the Pindus Mountains, the Pindus detachment of Colonel Davakis continues to encircle the Italian Julia Division, but Davakis is badly wounded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantinos_Davakis

Departing from Suda Bay, Crete, for Alexandria, Egypt, British cruisers HMS Ajax and HMS Coventry are attacked by Italian bombers, which again score several near misses but do no damage. Destroyer HMS Intrepid (ironically returning from a minelyaing mission) hits a mine off Hartlepool, Durham, damaging both her engines (under repair until Christmas). Minesweeping trawler HMT Rinovia hits a mine and sinks 10 miles South of St. Austell, Cornwall (15 crew lost). http://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?138689

[Elwood P. Doud]

So 70 years ago Roosevelt was warning about an “ominous” collusion of “extreme radicals and extreme reactionaries in the Republican party.” Thanks for letting us know how little Democrats have changed over the years.

[RJS1950]

I noted the term “reactionaries” which was the common term used by his Bolshevik-socialist buddies like Stalin. FDR was a socialist POS.

FUBO & FAD

[Larry381]

The Greeks actually stopped the Italian invasion and in some areas even overran Italian positions and entered and occupied a large portion of Albania-at that time an Italian protectorate.
When Hitler saw the military debacle that Mussolini had created, he had no option but to invade both Yugoslavia and Greece, both of which he defeated in a matter of weeks.
This is a superb series of daily posts by Homer_J_Simpson and I have to admit I have learned much about the day to day operations during that war. Before this I had fooled myself that I knew everything there was to know about its history.
Another thing his most recent posts have done is help me try and get over the death of my beautiful wife Dorothy, who passed away last month and who was the light of my life for over forty years.
Thanks Homer-

[Enchante]

yes, I noticed that FDR was the same kind of vicious dishonest demagogue that we see nowadays, and not the saintly above-the-fray gentleman portrayed in the propagandistic history books which the liberals give us

[ex-snook]

Just about a year before Pearl Harbor and a united nation.

[PAR35]

My sympathy for your loss.

[BroJoeK]

"I noted the term “reactionaries” which was the common term used by his Bolshevik-socialist buddies like Stalin. FDR was a socialist POS."

What do you think, would it be fair to say, in comparing FDR to our current Dems, that while Roosevelt was a socialist, he was also a nationalist (meaning he put America's interests first) -- in other words: he was a national socialist?

Compare today's Dems, who still socialists, are not national but international socialists -- meaning they put America's interests somewhere down their list of priorities?

Or would it be fairer to say that Roosevelt put America's interests above all others except Soviet Russia's?

Hmmmmmm.... National? International? Hard to decide which type best characterized FDR...
I think I'm going with national socialist. ;-)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/02.htm

November 2nd, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: London: General de Gaulle points out to the British government the dangers of continuing talks with the Vichy government: “....[we] understand the reasons which might at present lead the British government to conciliate the Vichy government as long as no concessions have been made to Germany and Italy that would be unfavourable to the British Empire...
Nonetheless, General de Gaulle and the French Empire Defence Council believe it their duty to point out that their policy and attitude to Vichy differs appreciably from the present policy and attitude of the British government.

GERMANY: U-69 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

GREECE: Italian raiders bomb Salonika, killing 200 civilians but fail to reach the Corinth Canal.

EGYPT: Wavell writes to Gen. Maitland Wilson:

“...I have instructed Lieut.-Gen O’Connor to prepare an offensive against the Italians to take place as soon as possible.

...in everything but numbers we are superior to the enemy. We are more highly trained and have better equipment. We know the ground and are better accustomed to desert conditions.. Above all we have stouter hearts and greater traditions and are fighting in a worthier cause.

...a striking success will have incalculable effect not only on the Middle East ... but of the future of freedom and civilisation... It is the best way on which we can help our Greek allies.”

The operation is given the code name Compass.

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Grunert requests that Philippine Army be called into Federal service and that he be sent 500 officers to train them. (Marc Small)

U.S.A.: Destroyer USS Swanson launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Attacking convoy OB-237 northwest of Ireland, U-31 is sunk for the second and final time, on this occasion by depth charges from the destroyer HMS Antelope in co-operation with shore-based aircraft of Coastal Command: the first was by a Blenheim of RAF Bomber Command on March 11th.

This time there are 2 dead and 44 survivors.