Was the AC plant opened on Monday? Did the men go back to work?
So it took three days for the British to acknowledge that the they had lost some ground to Rommel in Libya. Germany is still completely silent of the event. I can't wait to see what kind of lag there will be on the events next week then.
I also was wondering at what point there would be mention of the possibility of invoking that little amendment on the Selective Service bill that allows the government to take over companies that are failing to support the defense manufacturing effort. Fundamentally, I was against this amendment especially considering that it was tacked onto a bill that was considering a completely different matter (I really hate that and think that it amendments to bills should only be in direct concern of the purpose of the bill). However, if the government takes over some of these plants to crack down on these unions that are clearly showing that they have a long history of anti-American activities then I wont shed a bloody tear that's for sure.
"When I mentioned the matter of the linking up of both my panzer groups in the Minsk area and the difficulties of their subsequent advance from there, I received no clear statement on it, the same sort of answer Tresckow had received in Berlin recently. The question is important, for between Minsk and the 'gateway to Smolensk' - the land bridge between the Dniepr and the Dvina - lie the marshes from which the Beresina springs; massing armored forces near Minsk would therefore be very detrimental to their further forward movement"
I find this interesting since when it is put into practice, the encirclement around Minsk leaked like a sieve. I can't help but wonder how bad it would have been had moved deeper in their initial encirclement.