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Rumors in Capital – 2
Portugal Places Curb on Aliens – 2
Early Attack Seen – 3-4
The International Situation – 3
U.S. Aid to Soviet is Snag for Japan – 4
Nazis Wien Smolensk Gap in Moscow Push, They Say – 4-5
Russians Report Foe Halted in His Twin Drives on Kiev – 5-6
Gen. Conklin Named State Defense Aide – 5
The Germans Capture a Group of Soviet ‘Gun Women’ (photo) – 6
Released Writer Sees Failure of Nazis in Creating New Order * – 7
City Held Diverting Emergency Taxes – 7
Nazi Ouster Urged Upon Afghanistan (by Ray Brock) – 8
New ‘Peace Terms’ of Nazis Outlined – 8-9
Vichy-Nazi Accord Not Yet Ruled Out (by Pertinax) – 9
An Old Game with a New Twist (photo) – 9
Six Industrialists Oppose Seaway Plan – 10
Soviet Gets 2 Weapons; One Britain’s Super Bomb – 10
British Lead in the Air (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 11
Japanese Reveals Fight with Reds – 11
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 12-13
Tanned 44th Men Back at Fort Dix – 13
Cuban Senate Crisis Results from Brawl; Group of Minority Demands Guarantees – 13

* This is the first of a series of articles . . .

But the last to appear here. I didn’t notice subsequent installments as I cruised the microfilm. - Homer

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f06aug41.htm

Japan offers US some concessions

Wednesday, August 6, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Tokyo... Konoye’s government presents proposals involving some concessions in China and Indochina to the US, asking in return for the end of the freeze on Japanese assets. The proposals are not acceptable to the US and when the rejection is made known to the Japanese they propose that Konoye and Roosevelt meet to the discuss the issues at stake.

Headline: "Nazi Ouster Urged Upon Afghanistan (by Ray Brock) – 8"

"The British minister to Afghanistan... has made representations to the Afghan Government similar to the proposals already placed by the British before the Iranian Government suggesting the expulsion of unnecessary German travelers and residents from that country...
"...The number of Germans in Afghanistan, according to British sources is much smaller than the number of Germans in Iran -- estimated between 3,000 and 5,000.
Nevertheless there has been a marked increase in the travel of German 'tourists' and technicians to Afghanistan during recent weeks and the British are said to have made no secret of their anxiety about them..."

Most interesting that Western Allies in 1941 are so concerned about both Iran and Afghanistan...

Meanwhile, in 2011, according to Wikipedia:

"With a contingent of 5,350 soldiers and policemen, Germany is one of the main contributors of troops to coalition operations in Afghanistan.
Although German troops mainly operate in the comparatively quiet north of the country, the Bundeswehr has suffered a number of casualties during participation in the International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan."
"...As of June 10 2011, 52 German soldiers and three policemen have died in Afghanistan, making a total of 55 deaths.
Among them are the first German reservists to fall in hostile actions and the first German policemen to die in a deployment abroad.
In addition to these fatalities, 240 German soldiers and four police officers suffered injuries of varying degree caused by hostile activity."

So, today Germans are back in Afghanistan, but under markedly different circumstances. ;-)