GERMANY REJECTS AMERICAN WARNING ON MONROE DOCTRINE AS POINTLESS (7/6/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 7/6/40 | Bertram D. Hulen, Percival Knauth

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

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Hull Stands Firm – 2
Nazis Delighted by French Action – 2
The International Situation – 3
Army, Navy Ready with Broad Plans for Conscription – 4-5
R.A.F. Takes Toll of Five U-Boats – 5
Huge Nazi Radio Net Hinted by Pick-Ups – 5
C.M.T.C. Boys Get ‘Fire Baptism’ On Their First Day at Fort Dix – 5
Roosevelt Names 5 Basic Freedoms of Any Just Peace – 6
Dixie Clipper Here with 29 from Europe – 7
U.S. Technicians Find Intrigue Beat French – 7
Town, ‘Short Counted,’ Plans ‘Official’ Census – 8
Texas German Press Faces Dies Scrutiny – 8
Day’s War Communiques – 9

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jul40/f06jul40.htm

British attack cripples French warship

Saturday, July 6, 1940 www.onwar.com

In Algeria... At Mers-el-Kebir, the French battle cruiser Dunkerque is crippled by Swordfish torpedo-bombers from HMS Ark Royal.

In Germany... Hitler returns to Berlin in triumph after 8 weeks away.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/06.htm

July 6th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Aircraft are sent to bomb a German battleship at Kiel.
51 Sqn. Four aircraft sent, only one bombed, adverse weather. Two enemy aircraft seen, no attacks.
102 Sqn. Six aircraft sent, only two bombed, bad weather. One FTR.

FRANCE: VICHY FRANCE: The French Havas News Agency reports:-
The French Admiralty has announced that because of the British fleet’s attack on our naval combat forces which were in the process of disarmament, French naval officers are prohibited from wearing British medals.

NORTH SEA: Whilst surfaced to charge batteries British submarine HM S/M Shark is attacked by German aircraft 30 miles south-west of Stavanger in the Norwegian Sea. She is so badly damaged after some 5 hours of attacks by Do.17, HE.111 and Me. 110 that no she can no longer dive, and has no ammunition left. With 3 crew killed and 18 wounded, the Commander decides to surrender. An Arado seaplane (Ar 196A-3 of Coastal Reconnaissance Group 706 (Kü.Fl.Gr 706)) lands behind the submarine and promptly sinks, the crew coming on board, claiming that the float was damaged by gunfire, although the submarine commander reckoned it was due to making a bad landing! The Germans remained on the bridge as the Shark’s wounded crew are brought up and laid on the casing, whilst the crew below ensure destruction of all vital equipment. On the following morning a Dornier seaplane lands alongside and the commander is taken on board with one of the other officers who is badly wounded. As they fly away, Shark is seen to be down at the stern with about 10 aircraft overhead. Later some trawlers with medical staff on board arrive from Stavanger and take off the wounded. However, as soon as they try to tow Shark away, she rears up and sinks stern first. (Alex Gordon and Jack McKillop)(108)

GERMANY:

Berlin: Hitler’s return from the Western Front is greeted by vast enthusiastic crowds.

The Nazis have decided that when they have conquered Britain all men aged between 17 and 45 will be deported to Germany. Himmler’s SS has also prepared a Black Book with the names of 2,820 people who are to be rounded up as dangerous subversives. They include Noel Coward, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and Beatrice Webb.

The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, who Hitler admires greatly, is absent from the list.

But psychiatrist Sigmund Freud is also included although he died last year, and the Gestapo will have difficulty in tracing “Lady Carter-Bonham”, as no such lady exists.

“Lady Carter-Bonham” is probably meant to be Lady Violet Bonham Carter, a daughter of the First World War (and both the last non-coalition Liberal, and first coalition Liberal) Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. Bonham Carter was a pronounced advocate of the Liberal Party throughout her long life and was one of Winston Churchill’s oldest and most enduring friends. She was an early opponent of appeasement and was a member of Churchill’s Focus Group.

Lady Violet was created the Baroness of Yarnbury late in her life. Her memoir of Churchill, published shortly after his death, is a remarkably able volume both for its warmth and its depth. (Marc James Small and Matt Clark)

Algeria, Oran: The damaged French capital ship ‘Dunkerque’ is torpedoed at her moorings by HMS Ark Royal’s Swordfish.
(Mark Horan and Richard Pelvin add): Expanding on this action, this was the concluding action of the attack, dubbed Operation “Lever”, whose purpose was to guarantee that Dunkerque was out of action for at least a year. Initially, another bombardment was called for by HMS Hood and HMS Valiant but, as Dunkerque was beached in front of the main portions of the port, high civilian casulties would have been expected, something His Majesties Government did not want. Thus, the plan was revised such that a surprise dawn strike by Swordfish TSRs from HMS Ark Royal would be made.

The attack plan called for three waves to attack beginning roughly at dawn. At 0520, in position 36.19N, 02.23W, Ark Royal commenced launching first serial, composed of six Swordfish of 820 Squadron, FAA. This was followed, at 0545, by a second serial of three Swordfish from 810 Squadron, FAA with six Skuas escorts of 800 Squadron, FAA. The third serial followed at 0620, composed of three more Swordfish of 810 Squadron escorted by six Skuas of 803 Squadron, FAA.

The first wave struck in a diving attack at first light from out of the rising sun, obtaining complete surprise. Of the six torpedoes dropped, four hits were claimed; all six aircraft returned safely. The second wave struck at 0647 in the face of heavy AA fire, coming in from over the breakwater. Only two torpedoes were released, but a further hit was claimed that caused a “large explosion”. No enemy aircraft were encountered, and all nine aircraft returned safely. No torpedoes hit DUNKERQUE but one cut the patrol vessel TERRE NEUVE in two and she sank immediately. She had been alongside DUNKERQUE taking off crew and loading coffins of men killed in the 3 July attack.

The third wave, although launched much later, followed hot on the tails of the second wave. AA fire was light, and they believed they scored an additional hit. This time several French aircraft came up to engage and the Skuas found themselves tangled up in several dogfights, and although all nine aircraft got back to the task force, one Skua was forced to land in the sea nearby, the crew being rescued by an escorting destroyer, HMS Vidette.

Of the torpedoes that missed, at least two were released so close that close the safeties did not release, and another hit a tug ESTEREL, lying 70 metres from the battle cruiser, disintegrating it and another went under DUNKERQUE’s hull and struck the stern wreckage of TERRE NEUVE exploding forty two 100 kg depth charges. 40 feet of Dunkerque’s hull was ripped out in the explosion. While Dunkerque was eventually patched up enough to sail to Toulon, she had, effectively been removed for service for the war which was, after all, the whole goal of the operation.

SUDAN: Gallabat: The Sudan Defence Force at the frontier post is attacked by a greatly superior Italian force, but fights a successful delaying action and inflicts heavy losses on the enemy.

NORTH ATLANTIC: Angele Mabro is sunk by U-30 WSW of Brest with all hands.

SS Vapper sunk by U-34 at 49.30N, 09.15W. (Dave Shirlaw)

CANADA: Corvette HMS Hepatica (later HMCS Hepatica) is laid down at Lauzon, Province of Quebec.

Corvette HMCS Dauphin laid down Montreal. (Dave Shirlaw)

[chuck_the_tv_out]

The problem with history is I’m too busy dealing with today to study it in any detail.

[mikrofon]

Himmler’s SS has also prepared a Black Book with the names of 2,820 people who are to be rounded up as dangerous subversives. They include Noel Coward, Virginia Woolf

Now we know who was afaid of her...

[PzLdr]

The SS also intended to arrest the leadership of the British Boy Scouts, including many of the boys.

Tthe proposed Commander of this operation was SS Brigadefuehrer Franz Six. Six was subsequently appointed as the SS Officer in charge of Moscow [upon its capture]. Aside from those to unrealized appointments, Six refused command of an Einsatzgruppe in the USSR, with no retaliatory action taken.

[henkster]

Roosevelt identifies his “Five Freedoms” and if there was any doubt that he was a rabid socialist, there they are for all to see. The first three are found in our Bill of Rights. But the last two?

Number 4 is simply “pie in the sky” fairy-tale policy. “Fear from attack?” Yeah, that sounds nice but any kid who spent any time on the playground in 3rd grade knows that the only way to be free from fear of attack is if all the other kids on the playground are in fear of your retaliation. It’s the same in the world; always has been, always will be. But FDR was a “one world dreamer,” just like Woodrow Wilson. FDR took it a step further, believing that through the power of his wonderful personality he could get a ruthless dictator like Stalin to somehow “play nice.”

Number 5 is no better. “Freedom from want.” Hey, I’ve got 7 TV’s but only two are HD. I WANT the rest of them upgraded. And, I don’t really like my 2004 Ford Escape, even though it’s reliable and paid for. No, I really WANT a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti. No, wait, I really WANT two Ferrari 612 Scagliettis. One red, one silver, to match my mood for the day. So, FDR, until I get my HD TV’s and my Ferraris, I am NOT free from want. I suffer. Please, break the oppressive chains of my bondage.

As Margaret Thatcher said, “Socialism works great until you run out of other people’s money.” You can never be free from “want” unless you are willing to ration based on “need.” Which turns the whole idea on it’s head because rationing never leads to prosperity.

[CougarGA7]

His time as commander of the never utilized Vorkommando Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B did cost him though. He was tried in 1948 in the Einsatzguppe trials and though brief time in the unit made it impossible to convict him of any direct atrosities (which led to death sentences to the likes of Blobel, Ohlendorf, and Naumann amoung others) he was still sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for his involvement with the Einsatzgruppe and the SD. This was later commuted to 15 years in 1951.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Lucky for later generations that by the end of the century the failings of socialism would be so blatantly obvious that support for a “to each according to need” agenda will have faded to nothing.

[henkster]

Do I detect a note of sarcasm in your reply?

[BroJoeK]

henkster: "As Margaret Thatcher said, 'Socialism works great until you run out of other people’s money.' "

Homer_J_Simpson: "Lucky for later generations that by the end of the century the failings of socialism would be so blatantly obvious that support for a “to each according to need” agenda will have faded to nothing."

Great post henkster. And no sarcasm from Homer... ;-)

Of course it did -- faded to nothing, and soon forgotten.

But hope springs eternal in breasts of the gullible, and when the old snake-oil got repackaged as:

• "hope and change,"
• "the seas will recede," and
• the races will all just Kumbaya-my-Lord...

...well, who could ever vote against those things?
(Just don't look behind the curtain at those 60s hippy dope-smoking bomb throwers running the show these days...)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 310 July 6, 1940

Operation Lever (continuation of Operation Catapult). British Force H returns to Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria, to finish off the French battleships Provence and Dunkerque. At dawn, Fairey Swordfish from HMS Ark Royal score several torpedo hits on Dunkerque. One torpedo hits patrol boat French Terre Neuve, setting off a massive explosion in a large store of depth charges (8 killed), which badly damaged the nearby Dunkerque (154 killed and wounded).

At 5.37 AM, British cruisers HMS Capetown and Caledon and destroyers HMS Janus, Juno, Ilex and Imperial shell the Libyan port of Bardia, 10 miles along the coast from the Egyptian border. They sink Italian steamer Axum and damage another merchant ship. At 8.20 AM, the British ships are attacked by Italian bombers, suffering no damage.

British submarine HMS Shark, unable to dive, is captured by German minesweepers in Boknafjord near Stavanger, Norway. HMS Shark sinks under tow (3 killed, 32 taken prisoner). Another crewmember will be killed August 27 near his prison camp, dealing with an unexploded British bomb.

U-34 sinks Estonian collier Vapper, South of Cape Clear, Ireland (1 dead, 32 crew abandon ship in two lifeboats). U-99 (which had chased Vapper for 90 minutes) observes the sinking.

U-30 sinks Egyptian steamer Angele Mabro, West of Brest, France (all hands lost).