Posted on 11/14/2011 4:33:33 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/nov41/f14nov41.htm
HMS Ark Royal sinks
Friday, November 14, 1941 www.onwar.com
In the Mediterranean... British carrier Ark Royal, within 25 miles of Gibraltar, succumbs to damage done in the earlier U-boat attack and is abandoned to sink.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/14.htm
November 14th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM:
Minesweeper HMS Whitehaven commissioned.
Minesweeper HMS Shepparton laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: Soviet submarine L-2 of the Baltic Fleet is mined and sunk off Keri Island.
Submarine M-98 of the Baltic Fleet is mined and sunk off Naissaar Island in the Gulf of Finland. (Mike Yared)(146 and 147)
Soviet destroyer Gordy sunk by Finnish mine while participating in the evacuation of Hangö Island in the Baltic.
Soviet submarine SC-211 sunk near Cape Akburnu. All hands lost. (Dave Shirlaw)
GIBRALTAR: Lord Haw-Haw had claimed the sinking of HMS ARK ROYAL so many times that it had become a standing joke with the British. It was no joke today, however, when the great carrier sank 25 miles from Gibraltar after a fight to keep her afloat.
In an attack by U-81 and U-205 yesterday she had been hit amidships by one torpedo from U-81. The ARK ROYAL began to list at once, losing all power and light. For a few hours it seemed as if she could reach Gibraltar under tow by two tugs, her list corrected and steam raised in one boiler. In the early hours of this morning, however, fire broke out in her port boiler room and her list increased to 35 degrees. The ARK ROYAL was abandoned and sank at 6.13 this morning with the loss of only one crew member.
With HMS Illustrious and HMS FORMIDABLE both under repair in the USA, the Mediterranean Fleet is left without a carrier - a parlous situation since Hitler, desperate to supply Rommel, is preparing to order one Fliegerkorps of bombers from Russia to Sicily - a serious threat to Malta and the Royal Navy.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Hart informed by Navy Department that deployment of the Asiatic Fleet was to be made by him as its commander. (Marc Small)
CANADA: Minesweepers HMCS Clayoquot, Quinte and Ungava arrived Halifax from Esquimalt. DS)
U.S.A.: President Roosevelt at a press conference states:
“The Government of the United States has decided to withdraw the American Marine detachments now maintained ashore in China, at Peiping, Tientsin, and Shanghai.
It is reported that the withdrawal will begin shortly.” (Stuart W. Millis)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-561 sank SS Crusader in Convoy SC-53. (Dave Shirlaw)
I knew Otto was anti-Nazi (and was even then working on what became the EU) but I hadn’t heard of his brother’s activity before.
Thanks for removing the superfluous H from the title.
The Canary that couldn’t fly.
"Nine thousand Jews from Slonim, Belorussia, are murdered at Czepielow."
Theresienstadt
"On June 4, 1942, Pavel Friedmann, 21, finished a poem about the last butterfly he ever saw.
"Butterflies," the Jewish writer concluded, "don't live in here, in the ghetto."
"A few weeks earlier, the Germans had deported Friedmann to Terezín, Czechoslovakia (Theresienstadt in German), the walled military town where they began to ghettoize Czech Jews in the autumn of 1941.
A year later 50,000 Jews were struggling to survive in Theresienstadt's deteriorating conditions.
"Theresienstadt also became a concentration and transit camp for German and Western European Jews who were eventually deported to Auschwitz.
In mid-1944 the Nazis temporarily beautified Theresienstadt to deceive an investigating committee from the International Red Cross and to make a propaganda film that pictured the ghetto as Hitler's gift to the Jews.
"The facts were very different.
Of the over 140,000 Jews who were sent to Theresienstadt, 33,000 died and 88,000 were deported and killed.
Only about 19,000 survived.
Pictured is a standard identity card.
"Despite starvation, overcrowding, disease, and the constant dread of transports to the East, the Jewish leadership of Rabbi Leo Baeck and others emphasized educational and cultural activities.
Friedmann died in Auschwitz on September 29, 1944, but his poem, "I Never Saw Another Butterfly," exemplifies the artistic expressions from Theresienstadt, which are among the most precious documents recovered from the Holocaust."
Text: "In the final count, 53 Democrats, 137 Republicans, 3 Progressives and 1 Farmer-Labor member voted against the measure, while 189 Democrats, 22 Republicans and 1 American-Labor representative voted for it...
"...The Administration leaders called on three of their most effective speakers at the opening of the debate -- Representatives Woodrum of Virginia, Starnes of Alabama and Gifford of Massachusetts, the latter a Republican."
By some standards this bill could be considered an act of war, making a mockery of FDR's pretense at "neutrality."
As such, it is noteworthy that while most Republicans opposed the bill, so did 57 Democrats & other leftist parties.
Also notice that of the three speakers selected to defend Roosevelt's requests here, one was a Republican.
And, by the way, does anyone understand Roosevelt's position towards striking coal miners -- does it mean he intends to break the strike?
Would that be considered "anti-union"?
ML Annenberg goes to jail. yes, that is the daddy of walter annenberg, you see his name all over PBS. he gave hundreds of millions away to various causes, after starting with million dollar stake and a publishing business from his pops Moses.
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