Posted on 03/03/2010 4:56:37 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 11
Welles Finds Germany Not Ready for a Peace – 12-13
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 14
New Deal Ends 7 Eventful Years with Roosevelt Still Its Symbol – 15-16
Office Takes Toll of the President – 17-18
Census Preparations Set on Gigantic Scale – 20-22
Main Arenas of War – The World Background (Special Map Section) – 23-27
Seabiscuit Sets Santa Anita Record Before 75,000* – 28-30
* See reply #3 from yesterday’s thread for the back story.
Wow. Thanks for the post. Just think, some school districts are replacing History classes for “Current Events”. What’s the old saying, “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it”?
Speculative maps are amazing!
...and Bobby Riggs!
Thanks, as always.
PWK
Billy Jean King was born 3 years After this article date in 1943.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/mar40/f03mar40.htm
Red Army takes aim at Viipuri
Sunday, March 3, 1940 www.onwar.com
The Winter War... The Soviets begin attacks on Viipuri, Finland’s second city. There is hand-to-hand fighting in the suburbs of Viipuri; Soviet troops capture the railway station.
In the North Atlantic... The cruiser HMS York intercepts the German SS Arucas off Iceland, but the German crew scuttles her.
In Britain... The public has now invested £100 million in National Savings since the war broke out.
From Berlin... The date for the invasion of Norway and Denmark is set as March 17th but this will be altered to early April.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/03.htm
March 3rd, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group. Leaflets and Reconnaissance - Berlin. 51 Sqn. Two aircraft. Light opposition. One enemy aircraft sighted, but this did not attack.
10 Sqn. K9022 Overshot Dishforth. Sgt L.A. Keast and crew safe.
RAF Fighter Command: Luftwaffe attacks on shipping in the North Sea. Little damage.
RAF fighters flying over Kent mistake a RAF bomber for a Luftwaffe aircraft and shoot it down in flames near Meopham.
The public have invested (GBP) 100 million in National Savings since war broke out.
SS Cato struck one of eight mines laid on the same day by U-29 and sank 2.5 miles SE of Nash Point in the Bristol Channel. The master, ten crewmembers and two gunners were lost. Minesweeping trawler HMS Akita picked up two crewmembers. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: Berlin: Göring meets Sumner Welles, and evades his questions about cruelty to Polish Jews; he prefers to show Welles his vast art collection.
The date for the invasion of Norway and Denmark is set for 17 March but this will be altered to early April. (Jack McKillop)
FINLAND: The Soviet Army begins its attack on Viipuri. The Soviet 7th Army moves into the outskirts of Vyborg. “There is hand-to-hand fighting in the suburbs of Viipuri; Soviet troops capture the railway station.” The city’s civilian population evacuates the city. (Hal Smith)
http://www.aviapress.com/viewonekit.htm?FRI-011
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/mar40/03mar40.htm
For a description of Vyborg before the battle see the article “Fourth Week” in Time Magazine, March 4, 1940 http://www.time.com/time/archive/pre...763580,00.html
After receiving the word from the British and French governments that they would send respectively only 6000 and 12 000 men, the Finnish government decides to continue the attempts to negotiate peace with the Soviet Union.
Lt. Gen. Lennart Oesch, who had until now been the Chief of General Staff at the Finnish GHQ, replaces Maj. Gen. Kurt Wallenius as the CO of the Coastal Group. Wallenius held the command for only two days. Wallenius’s career is in ruins, he is retired from the Army and is not called back to service even during the Continuation War. (Mikko Härmeinen)
U.S.S.R.: Writing in Pravda Ia. Viktorov says the war “was concocted by the English and French imperialists who want to maintain their status in Europe.” (Mike Yared)
U.S.A.: The motion picture “Castle on the Hudson” is released in the U.S. Directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien and Burgess Meredith, the plot involves tough mobster Garfield and his term in Sing Sing Prison. (Jack McKillop)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: The cruiser HMS York intercepts the German SS Arucas off Iceland, but the German crew scuttles her.
Man, these Sunday editions are astounding.
Of particular interest to me were the reviews of “7 years of FDR” on pages 15 - 18.
FRegards,
LH
They're fun to put together. It takes a while to scroll through Sunday editions because I don't want to overlook a gem of an article in News of the Week in Review, NYT Magazine, Sunday Review of Books, or even Rotogravure. (That one depends in part on the fiche quality.) They also have an expanded entertainment section that I haven't used yet. Not to mention business, real estate, travel, etc.
Editing is harder than I thought!
The Soviet troops on the Vuoksi throw almost three divisions into an offensive across a broad front in the Vuosalmi and Kaskiselkä sectors. The defending Finnish troops successfully halt the offensive with the support of artillery fire.
Photo: SA-KUVA
Finland ready to open peace talks
Ol’ Otto is about to file his last report from Berlin isn’t he?
Yep. According to his wikipedia blurb Herr Tolischus will shortly be invited to get the hell out of Germany. I don't know whether the Times will make an announcement or we will just stop seeing his byline from Berlin. It may have already happened. I looked through my unposted articles (I have them through March 24) and didn't see his name on stories filed from Berlin.
What cost $884 in 1940 would cost $13377.15 in 2009
Add in air conditioning, power brakes and steering, airbags, catalytic converter, etc, and the price of cars really hasn’t changed much.
I found a few more Berlin Headlines by him but he is almost out of there. Here's what I found.
NAZIS STRESS AIM TO GET 'FREE SEA'; All Leaders Say They Do Not Plan German Rule, So Will Not Clash With U.S. HULL'S POLICY CONDEMNED Newspaper Says Our System of Reciprocal Trade Is No Aid to 'Dispossessed' States
By OTTO D. TOLISCHUS Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
March 7, 1940, Thursday
NAZI TO VISIT ROME; Ribbentrop Will Confer With Mussolini, Ciano on Italy's Policy SVINHUFVUD IS IN BERLIN Germans Say Interest in Any Peace Moves Is Passive-- Officials Are Reticent
By OTTO D. TOLISCHUS Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
March 9, 1940, Saturday
HITLER TO AMPLIFY NAZI POLICY TODAY; Berlin Speech Is Expected to Clarify Stand--Nazis Look Hopefully to Rome
By OTTO D. TOLISCHUS Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
March 10, 1940, Sunday
There is then a gap in his reporting and then this one pops up with him reporting from Copenhagen, Denmark
DANES TO INCREASE TAX BURDENS 16%; Heavy Imposts, Part of War's Cost to Neutrals, Fail to Balance Huge Budget PEOPLE FEAR FOR FUTURE Nation, Squeezed Between Big Powers, Is Most Menaced of All Small States
By OTTO D. TOLISCHUS Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
March 27, 1940, Wednesday
A couple days later there are a few days worth of reports in Oslo, Norway and then he begins reporting from Stockholm,Sweden. I bet he almost felt as if the Nazi's were following him. Kind of ironic that he ends up in a Japanese POW camp.
By the way this is the first time I've looked at the New York Times site to see if they had an archive and at first look it appears to be pretty complete. I wonder if this is something useful for gathering the thread's materials. Like I said, I wouldn't know how good the information on the site or if it is in original format (Remember the UK Telegraph stuff I was posting was just retyped). Might be worth looking into.
http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/2010/03/day-185-march-3-1940.html
Day 185 March 3, 1940
Churchill’s disinformation pays off. Luftwaffe bombs Southampton when liner Queen Elizabeth is due to arrive. Instead she is headed West to USA.
Finland. Soviet troops continue attacking across frozen Viipuri Bay. They reinforce the beachhead on the Western shore of the bay and take another island, Uuras. Finnish Commander-in-Chief dishonorably discharges General Wallenius who has failed to organize a defense of Viipuri Bay (he lost his nerve and remained drunk at HQ). He appoints Lieutenant-General Lennart Oesch to replace Wallenius in command of the Coastal Group to defend Viipuri from the ice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryshevo,_Leningrad_Oblast
Cruiser HMS York stops German steamer Arucas, 50 miles South of Iceland. The crew scuttles Arucas (3 lives lost). York rescues 39 survivors who will be landed at Kirkwall, Scotland on March 10.
U-29 lays mines in Bristol Channel; British steamer SS Cato hits one and sinks (13 lives lost). 2 survivors are rescued by minesweeper HMS Akita.
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