[Homer_J_Simpson]

Red Army Attacks – 2
Peru Claims Capture of Island Lost in ’38 – 2
The International Situation – 3
Batavia Risks War – 3
Smolensk Fight Won, Nazis Claim – 4
Submarine Raids Axis Convoy Lanes – 5
Nazis Ease Curbs on French Mails – 5
Mr. Churchill as an Iron Cavalryman (photo) – 5
Netherlands as Ally Sets Up Navy Office – 5
Knox Says Fight or Lose Freedoms – 6
U.S. Group to Aid British Seamen – 6
Soldiers Attack Canadian Pickets – 6
Spots 430,000 Miles Long Developing on the Sun – 6
Nazi Tank Division Chief Killed on Russian Front – 7
Actress and Composer Who Were Married Yesterday (photo) – 7
Winter Looms as Red Ally – 8
Ukraine Wheat Harvest Moved from Nazis’ Grasp – 8
Dormoy Murder Laid to Political Strife – 8
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 9

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jul41/f29jul41.htm

Vichy French share defense of Indochina

Tuesday, July 29, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Tokyo... Vichy France and Japan sign an agreement on the mutual defense of Indochina.

In Japan... Japan freezes Dutch assets. Almost 75 percent of Japan’s foreign trade is at a standstill and 90 percent of its oil supplies have been cut off.

In Germany... General Ludwig von Schroeder, the former head of civil defense and president of the 13,000,000 membership of the “Air Raid Protection League,” dies of injuries received in a plane crash near Belgrade.

[CougarGA7]

• "On the strategic axis of Moscow the Germans are unable to mount a major offensive operation in the near future owing to their heavy losses and they lack appreciable reserves to secure the right and left wings of Army Group Centre. On the Leningrad axis it is impossible for the Germans to begin an operation to capture Leningrad and link up with the Finns without additional forces." - Marshall Georgi Zhukov

• Guderian's panzer group has shrunk down to 286 tanks from its initial strength of 953. Of these remaining tanks, 132 were outdated Mark I and IIs.

• Hitler removes Richthofen's VIII Air Corps from Kesselring's Air Fleet 2 giving it to Air Fleet 1 supporting Leeb's drive towards Leningrad.

• Kleist orders Kempf's XXXXVIII Motorized Corps to advance toward Pervomaisk.

[BroJoeK]

Headline: "Knox Says Fight or Lose Freedoms – 6"

"Secretary Tells Legion of Valor Weakness Would Open Way for 'Stronger Breed of Men'

"WARNS OF EUROPE'S FATE

"He Says Americans who Fail to Recognize Peril Are Repeating Error...

[Secretary of the Navy Frank] "Knox asserted in a speech here tonight that 'if the time ever comes when we Americans are unwilling to fight to preserve the freedoms we have inherited, those freedoms will be destroyed and taken from us by a stronger breed of men.' "

Does anyone here doubt that Knox spoke for President Roosevelt, or that Roosevelt was working to prepare Americans for war?