Posted on 6/24/2010, 12:09:46 PM by Homer_J_Simpson
The articles on Willkie at the Republican Convention are just as interesting. The republicans rejected the Hard-line conservative Bob Taft in favor of a moderate former democrat who agreed with most of the democrat policies. Taft was defeated by the moderate Dewey in 44, 48, and 52 also. In 52 with the help of Earl Warren (the Republican VP nominee in 48) and Richard Nixon, neither a fan of conservatives as future events would show.
The moderate influence should be defeated at all cost. They’re parasites.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jun40/f24jun40.htm
France agrees to armistice with Italy
Monday, June 24, 1940 www.onwar.com
In Occupied France... The Franco-Italian armistice is concluded.
In the United States... The Republican Party convention at Philadelphia begins.
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/24.htm
June 24th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Bombing - aluminium works.
RAF Training Command. Two Blackburn B-2’s lost with four crew in a mid-air collision over the River Humber.
77 Sqn. Eight aircraft to aluminium works Ludwigshaven. Weather filthy. Seven bombed.
102 Sqn. Eight aircraft to aluminium works Ludwigshaven. Two returned early, six bombed.
London: The Allies discuss how to stop the French navy falling to the Germans.
Corvette HMS Geranium commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
FRANCE: 22,000 soldiers who had been holding out in the Vosges mountains, surrender.
11 Leo45s of 6th Bomber Group attack German pontoon bridges between Moirans and Grenoble. Only 4 machines found their target and the attack was unsuccessful. This is the last French bombing raid of the campaign.
Corvette FS Alysse laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: The OKW orders Hauptmann v. Menges of the Operationsabteilung of the General Staff to prepare a short study concerning the invasion and conquest of Switzerland. This is done without Hitler’s explicit order as a contingency plan. (Russ Folsom)
ITALY: Rome: France faced its final humiliation today when the terms of the armistice with Italy were published. Although Italian troops made little headway against fierce French resistance during the few weeks of campaigning, demilitarised zones are to be established in France, Tunisia and Algeria - with Italian troops remaining on their advanced lines. The French are required to clear the battlefields of mines. France will allow Italy “full and constant right” to the port of Djibouti in Somaliland.
JAPAN: Tokyo: Pu Yi, the puppet emperor of Manchukuo and last emperor of China, arrives on an official visit.
Japan formally requests Britain to close the Burma Road, stop the flow of war materials through Hong Kong and withdraw its garrison at Shanghai.
One great irony, of course, is that by today's pathetic standards, all these "moderate" Republicans would be considered radical conservatives.
Indeed, Roosevelt himself -- the father of today's "progressive" socialists -- would today be a John McCain style "moderate Republican."
Unless you define "moderate" as: "one more eager to brown-nose Democrats than defend the Constitution."
But sadly, then as now, you'd need a microscope to count such a small number.
Sorry, should read: "But sadly, then as now, you'd need a microscope to count such a small number of real conservatives. "
Did the French fleet fall to the krauts? Did they honor their promise not to use them against the Brits? Doesn’t sound like the nazis to me...
Churchill ordered the RAF to sink the French fleet at Oran, Algeria on July 3rd, after the French refused to surrender the ships to the Royal Navy.
Sadly, this makes me think of our current predicament.
I found General Mittelhuaser’s statement that French Syria would continue to fight. I’m betting that will only last a few days before they give in. Syria will be involved in an interesting sequence of events next year that is not in the mainstream histories of World War II so stay tuned.
Today seems like a good day to update the antics of the German Abwehr in Ireland.
For those keeping score, Hermann Görtz is still on the run in Ireland and still cannot establish contact with Germany.
I mentioned a little over a week ago the story of Walter Simon and speculated that reports of two agents being dropped may have been in reference to Wilhelm Preetz.
As far as I know Preetz was not dropped at the same time as Simon, but he has landed by now. Preetz unlike some of the other agents dropped in Ireland was at least familiar with the country. He had married an Irish girl from Galway.
With a Irish passport under the name Patrick Mitchell, Preetz set off towards Dublin with the same mission that Simon had, set up a weather monitoring station and report on shipping between England and Ireland. Unlike Simon, Preetz did make it to Dublin and made contact with Joseph Donohue of the IRA. The two rented a loft in Dublin and proceded to set up a wireless station for transmitting to Germany. This is his status at the moment, but don’t worry, it wont be too long before I update his status.
- From “The Irish Interlude: German Intelligence in Ireland 1939-1943” by Mark Hull in the Journal of Military History, July 2002.
I used to think the Italians were foolish, feckless, and weak because they were not as brutal as the Germans. Now I realize it was because their hearts weren’t in it like the krauts.
They really weren’t. There was a lot going on with Italy that made them a bad ally of the Germans really. Their people were not very much in favor of joining a war of conquest with the Germans, the Italian military leaders were in positions based more their political standing or cronyism with Mussolini rather than military aptitude, and as we have already been given hints of with the issues of shipping coal to Italy that was reported last month (or was it April), they are resource scare. They have this relatively large navy that they will not be able to fully utilize in any capacity because they lack the fuel to do so.
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