Posted on 09/12/2009 5:28:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm
The Developments in Europe – 2
Warsaw Fights On – 2-6
Incidents in European Conflict – 3
New Toll of Submarines Makes Total of 16 Ships – 5
American Ship Is Halted And Searched by U-Boat – 5
First American at Front A Lafayette Corps Pilot – 5
Government to Build 20 More Cargo Ships; Calls for Bids to Be Opened Next Week – 7
Poles Unprepared For Blow So Hard* – 8
Soviet Seen Ready to Disarm Poles – 9
Britain Acts to Curtail Blackout Accident Toll – 9
Gained Areas Held – 10-11
Sniping Poles Irk German Invaders – 12
Saw Warsaw Bombed Hourly For 4 Days – 12
Borah Opens Fight Against Revision of Neutrality Act – 13-14
Little Fuss to Mark Return of Windsors – 14
Radio Nets Agree on War Coverage – 15-16
Hitler and Goering See Army at Work in Poland – 16
Russia in the Battle Zone (Editorials) – 17-18
* The following dispatch is by a member of the Berlin staff of THE NEW YORK TIMES who was allowed to visit the German armies in the field in Poland and to send this account:
I had passed on this article when I saw this preface while preparing another front page article. Intrigued, I printed it for posting when I next visited the library.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/sep39/f12sep39.htm
French advance into Germany ends
Tuesday, September 12, 1939
On the Western Front... French forces have now advanced about 5 miles (8 km) into Germany on a 15-mile (24 km) frontage in the Saarland region. The French claim that the action has forced the Germans to withdraw 6 divisions from Poland, although British observers express doubts. The advance places the front within half a mile of the Siegfried Line and a frontal assault on this defensive system is considered to be out of the question. General Gamelin calls an end to the Saar offensive.
In Poland... Some of List’s troops are fighting near Lvov while others are moving north from their bridgeheads over the San. The Polish army around Poznan, the one that was to have marched on Berlin, unexpectedly turns about and attempts to take the German 8th Army in the flank. This is the start of the violent battle of the Bzura River. Polish troops push the German forces 12 miles south of Kutno and recapture Lowicz. Gdynia is evacuated by the Poles. Luftwaffe planes bomb Krzemieniec (Kremenets) in eastern Poland, a declared open village where the diplomatic community from Warsaw has sought refuge.
In Bucharest... The German Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, demands that the Romanians not give asylum to Polish officials crossing the border and threatens military action in case of noncompliance.
In France... The Anglo-French Supreme War Council meets for the first time at Abbeville. Meanwhile, a Czech army-in-exile is formed.
In Britain... The home office opens an inquiry into blackout rules.
In the North Atlantic... The US Navy begins regular neutrality patrols along the entire length of the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bzura
The Battle of the Bzura (or Kutno or Battle of Kutno — German name) was a battle in the opening campaign of World War II during the 1939 German Invasion of Poland, fought between 9 and 19 September,[3] 1939, between Polish and German forces. Finally, the Germans outflanked the Polish forces and took all the west Poland.
It was the single largest[4] battle in the 1939 September campaign and took place to the west of Warsaw, near the Bzura River. In it, a Polish breakout attack gained initial success but eventually faltered after a concentrated German counterattack.
It is also noted as one of the last major military actions ever to have been conducted on horseback.
http://theww2resource.tripod.com/id58.htm
September 12, 1939
Polish forces have some success, pushing the Germans back twelve miles south of Kutno and recapturing Lowicz. The Luftwaffe bombs Krzemieniec, which had been declared an open village, and where Warsaw’s diplomatic community had sought refuge.
Germany threatens military action if Rumania gives asylum to Polish officials.
"Government to Build 20 more Cargo Ships
Calls for Bids to be Opened Next Week"
These are not yet "Liberty Ships," but the specs are pretty close:
Name: Liberty ship
Builders: 18 shipyards in the USA
Planned: 2,751
Completed: 2,710
Preserved: 2
General characteristics
Class and type: Cargo ship
Displacement: 14,245 tons[1]
Length: 135 m (441 ft 6 in)
Beam: 17.3 m (56 ft 10.75 in)
Draft: 8.5 m (27 ft 9.25 in)
Propulsion: Two oil-fired boilers,
triple-expansion steam engine,
single screw, 2,500 horsepower (1,864 kW)
Speed: 11 to 11.5 knots (20 to 21 km/h)
Range: 23,000 miles (37,000 km)
Capacity: 10,856 metric tons deadweight (DWT)[1]
Complement: 41 men
Armament: Stern-mounted 4-in (102 mm) deck gun for use against surfaced submarines, variety of anti-aircraft guns
"Borah Opens Fight Against Revision of Neutrality Act"He and Vandenberg, Townsend, Nye and Barbour Confer on Opposing President"
All are Northern or Western Republican Isolationists.
Conservative Southern Democrats were among FDR's strongest supporters on foreign policy -- at the same time most strongly opposed to allowing more Jews entry into the US.
Go figure...
Conservative Southern Democrats were among FDR's strongest supporters on foreign policy -- at the same time most strongly opposed to allowing more Jews entry into the US.
Go figure...
Yeah, that was a real witches brew.
Churchill was definitely a hands on guy.
It doesn’t look so good for Poland. Why would they put an anti-aircraft gun in the courtyard of an apartment building?
Churchill was hands on and correct most of time. Usually hands on politicians know nothing.
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