HOOVER BIDS FOR NOMINATION TO FIGHT NEW DEAL (6/26/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 6/26/40 | James A. Hagerty, Raymond Daniell, Hanson W. Baldwin, Frank L. Kluckhohn

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

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Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

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Hoover Challenge – 2-3
The International Situation – 3
The Convention – 3
Churchill Bitter – 4-5
Polish Troops Arrive to Defend Britain – 5
Sea Power Uncertainties – 5
Sweden is Preparing for Winter of War – 5
The Never-Ceasing Watch for German Invaders Along the English Coast (photos) – 6
Bessarabia Linked in Red-Nazi Deal – 7
Soviet Army Guards Lithuania’s Border – 7
Greece Fears Italy Now Plans a Drive – 7
Britain Smashing at Reich from Air – 8
Punishment-Loving Jury Asks to Hear Case Twice – 8
‘Benefits’ of Blitzkrieg Are Listed by Germans – 8
Navy Will Train 5,000 Reserves at Once To Serve as Officers for Enlarged Fleet – 9
League Staff Is Notified To Quit Before Sunday – 9
The Day’s War Communiques - 10

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jun40/f26jun40.htm

Soviets demand Romanian lands

Thursday, June 26, 1940 www.onwar.com

In Bucharest... The Soviets present an ultimatum to Romania demanding the cession of territory in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Germany reluctantly intervenes to help persuade the Romanians to give in.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/26.htm

June 26th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: Bombing - aluminium works. 58 Sqn. Ten aircraft to Ichendorf. Four bombed primary, four bombed alternatives.
77 Sqn. Five aircraft to Ludwigshaven. One returned early and landed at Bircham Newton after two aircrew baled out. Four bombed.
102 Sqn. Five aircraft to Ludwigshaven. Two returned early, one bombed primary, one bombed alternative.
The British government releases a paper revealing the Lancastria tragedy. Recent estimates give nearly 5 000 dead. Official reports are still sealed the most likely reason unfortunately being so as to negate claims laid by survivors and their relatives against the British government. (Lawrence Patterson)

More information. and more...

Corvette HMS Crocus launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.S.R.: Moscow: Russia demands that Romania secedes Bessarabia (Moldovia) and northern Bukovina.

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Trillium launched Montreal, Province of Quebec. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: SS Dimitris was shelled and sunk by U-29. All hands survived.

At 0228, the unescorted Crux was torpedoed and sunk by UA. Twenty minutes after the crew left the ship in lifeboats; a southbound ship passed by very near, but did not see them in the dark. They did not use their flashes to make themselves known, because they thought that the U-boat was still near them. The British SS Brutus picked them up the following day. (Dave Shirlaw)

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http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 300 June 26, 1940

At 2.28 AM, UA sinks Norwegian MV Crux (6300 tons of patent fuel from Britain to Brazil) 300 miles west of Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. All 30 crew abandon ship in 2 lifeboats and are picked up the following day by British steam merchant Brutus. At 3.30 PM, U-29 stops Greek SS Dimitris with a shot across her bow off Cape Finisterre, Spain. Dimitris, carrying 9000 tons of cereal grains from Argentina to Liverpool, is sunk by gunfire after the crew abandons ship. http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/387.html

Soviet Union presents an ultimatum demanding territory in Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina from Romania. Hitler suggests the Romanians government gives in and satisfies the Soviet demands.

[iowamark]

The best thing that Herbert Hoover could have done for Republicans would have been to stay away from their convention. But he was still bitter from 1932 and FDR’s refusal to talk with him after the election.

[Western Phil]

FDR’s obsession with gold reminds me of the Hunt brothers with silver.

[PzLdr]

Not that he needed any shoving, but this action by the USSR, which went beyond the Secret Protocols of the Non-Aggression Pact, and posed a threat to Hitler’s chief source of oil, Ploesti, was one more nudge toward BARBAROSSA.

[Verginius Rufus]

Wow. Italy got Djibouti (French Somaliland) as a prize after declaring war on France in June 1940. I have read a lot about World War II but never knew that.

Still, Mussolini would have been smarter to stay out of the war.

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"Not that he needed any shoving, but this action by the USSR, which went beyond the Secret Protocols of the Non-Aggression Pact, and posed a threat to Hitler’s chief source of oil, Ploesti, was one more nudge toward BARBAROSSA."

Did you notice how truly odd that article is?

First of all, Hitler did not oppose Stalin's move on Bessarabia, he supported it -- even going so far as to urge Romania to concede its territory without fighting.

So now the reporter, Frank Kluckhohn, must explain how this can be.
And what does he say?
Well, to Kluckhohn it can't just be one loyal ally supporting the other. Instead, he says:

• Hitler doesn't oppose Stalin because Hitler is too busy with the invasion of Britain -- so can't afford trouble in his back yard, just yet.

• And Stalin wants Bessarabia in order to push Russia's frontiers further west -- out of fear of an eventual German invasion.

Now why would, in June 1940, Stalin or Kluckhohn already expect an eventual German invasion?
Well, we know Stalin was warned in 1939 of Hitler's plans.
But what about Kluckhohn?
If the New York Times suspects and reports such things, pretty fair guess it was common knowledge.

So who was being fooled?