ROOSEVELT LEAVES THIRD TERM TO PARTY; RELEASES DELEGATES FOR A FREE CHOICE (7/17/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/17/40 | James A. Hagerty, Kathleen McLaughlin, Bertram D. Hulen, Herbert L. Matthews, Hugh Byas

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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 .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

[pnh102]

FDR - the US’ first, and hopefully only, “President for Life.”

[Homer_J_Simpson]

With “this form of warfare,” Churchill is talking about amphibious operations – Homer

Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Choice Left Open – 2-3
Women Win Voice in Policy Making – 3-4
Third-Term Statement – 3
The International Situation – 4
Japan Sending Mission To Netherlands Indies – 4
U.S. Resists Closing of the Burma Road, Hull Makes Clear – 5-6
British Miners Bar Ban on Chamberlain – 6
Warning to Britain by Hitler Expected – 7
Japanese Cabinet Forced to Resign – 8-9
British Admit Rise in Sea War’s Toll * - 9
Invasion on Friday Held German Plan * - 10
Flanders to Fight Aiken for Senator – 10
British Push Raids on Wide Air Front – 10
The Mediterranean War (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 11
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 12-13

* The photocopy of the top half of the page didn’t quite overlap the photocopy of the bottom half. One, or at most, two lines of text are missing from two columns. Homer regrets the rookie mistake.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jul40/f17jul40.htm

New government of Japan more aggressive

Wednesday, July 17, 1940 www.onwar.com

In Tokyo... A new Cabinet headed by Prince Konoye is appointed. Matsuoka is the new Foreign Minister and will be very influential. The Cabinet also includes a number of supporters of a more aggressive policy. The most important is General Tojo who becomes Minister of War.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/17.htm

July 17th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Bomber Command: 2 Group ( Blenheim). 1 aircraft of 15 Sqn used for the first night intruder raid with an attack on Caen airfield.
Mooring vessel HMS Steady mined and sunk off Newhaven.

Destroyer HMS Beaufort laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: Colonel Kammhuber is assigned to build up a night fighter organisation.

U.S.A.: Roosevelt wins the Democratic nomination for the presidential elections.

Destroyer USS Plunkett commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN:

At 0005, U-34 began shelling the Naftilos until she sank at 0110. All 28 crewmembers abandoned ship safely, but one man later died of wounds.

At 1040, the Fellside, a straggler from Convoy OA-184, was torpedoed and sunk by U-43 about 135 miles NW of Bloody Foreland. The master and 20 crewmembers were rescued and landed at Liverpool.

At 2222, the Manipur in Convoy HX-55A was torpedoed and sunk by U-57 eight miles NW of Cape Wrath. 14 crewmembers were lost. The master and 64 crewmembers were picked up by destroyer HMCS Skeena and landed at Rosyth.

At 0410, the OA Brodin was hit amidships by one torpedo from U-57 and sank after 45 minutes. The ship had been missed by a first torpedo at 0405, a surface runner. (Dave Shirlaw)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 321 July 17, 1940

Battle of Britain Day 8. Bad weather again restricts flying across most coastal areas. Germans bomb Bristol on the West coast of England, a tempting target due to its docks, airfields and aircraft factories. The industrial centers on the East coast of Scotland are also bombed again.

WWI-era British submarine H31 sinks German anti-submarine trawler Steiermark (UJ126) 5 miles off the coast of Holland. Other German anti-submarine trawlers counterattack but H31 is undamaged.

U-43 sinks British SS Fellside, West of Ireland (12 dead, 21 crew rescued and landed at Liverpool). U-34 sinks Greek SS Naftilos (all 28 crew abandon ship safely, 1 dies of wounds). Off the North Scottish coast, U-57 sinks Swedish SS O.A. Brodin (3 dead, 21 survivors picked up by armed trawler HMS Sicyon and taken to Kirkwall) and British SS Manipur (14 dead, 65 survivors rescued by Canadian destroyer HMCS Skeena and landed at Rosyth). http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/425.html http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/427.html

German bombers sink Estonian SS Leola 120 miles South of Ireland (2 killed). Belgian trawler Roger Jeannine rescues survivors.

In the Mediterranean, Italian bombers sink Finnish SS Wiiri 30 miles off Malta (all 26 crew rescued).

[TimSkalaBim]

Is that Ronald Reagan in the Camels ad?

[stormer]

I thought so too, but Reagan advertised Chesterfields and I can’t imagine he would have been in ads for two different brands.

[CougarGA7]

Battle of Britain Campaign Diary

Date: 17 July 1940

• Weather: Dull with occasional rain.
• Day: Search for shipping off Scottish and east coasts.
• Night: Targets attacked in south-west. Minelaying.

  Enemy action by day

  Weather hampered our fighters in their action against enemy air activity which was again on a reduced scale. Raids were plotted off the Scottish, East and South coasts, apparently searching for shipping. An attack was made on shipping off Dundee and trawlers were attcked off Beachy Head. One or two raids crossed the coast and bombs were dropped in Surrey, Kent, at Portland and in Ayrshire.

  South and South-West

  A number of raids apparently in search of shipping were plotted during the day and a vessel was reported attacked 13 miles from Dartmouth at 1540 hours. One raid, a Do17, crossed the coasts at 1136 hours and came inland as far as Kenley. It was intercepted and chased out to sea over Pevensey, being damaged by our fighters. This raid dropped bombs near Kenley. Two attacks were reported on trawlers off Beachy Head, and three aircraft plotted South East of this point at 1515 hours are reported to be responsible for the bombs which were dropped near Ashford and Lydd. At 1540 hours three Heinkels were reported over Portland and appeared to attack the Mere Oil Fuel Depot, dropping six bombs. Slight damage was done to a railway and cloud enabled the raiders to achieve surprise. Although our fighters encountered a Junkers 88, which they attacked, off the Isle of Wight. Two of our Hurricanes were damaged during the day and one Spitfire which was on patrol off Beachy Head is reported missing.

  East Coast

  Up to 2100 hours eight raids were plotted off the East Coast and a reconnaissance of a convoy was made although no subsequent attack on this convoy is reported. Two of the raids crossed the coast in the Humber area.

  Scotland

  Four raids were plotted off the Scottish Coast and Orkneys. One crossed from Peterhead to the west Coast and dropped bombs at Ardeer ICI factory doing little damage. Of the remainder two carried out a reconnaissance of the Orkneys at 0721 hours and were intercepted but without successful results.

  French Coast

  Tracks were frequently reported coming into or going out from the Cherbourg peninsular. These tracks were not seen any distance out to see. It seems probable that aircraft are going to and coming from an unknown destination in the west as the tracks frequently start or stop at short distances off the Cherbourg peninsular.

  By night

  At 2232 hours nine raids, which first of all proceeded towards Cherbourg, having come over the coasts of Northern France, Belgium and Holland, turned northwards heading towards south-west England. Some of the raids crossed the coast covering the Bristol Channel area. At 0026 hours a further number of raids approached South West England, some again crossing to the Bristol Channel area. Bombs are reported to have been dropped at Port Talbot, and near Swansea and near Radstock. Mine laying is suspected in the Bristol Channel and off the Plymouth coast. Between 2200 and 0235 hours some 19 raids were plotted off the east coast, of which probably seven were minelaying. None reported further north than the Wash. A few crossed the coast and bombs are reported to have been dropped at Queenborough near Rochester, Felixstowe, Harwich, Chatham, near Barking and at Gillingham. Not more than 40 in all enemy aircraft are estimated to have operated during the night.

  

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  Statistics

  Fighter Command Serviceable Aircraft as at 0900 hours, 17 July 1940

• Blenheim - 67
• Spitfire - 237
• Hurricane - 331
• Defiant - 20
• Total – 659

  Casualties:

• Enemy: Fighters - nil; Bombers - 2 unconfirmed.
• Own: 2 Hurricanes (Nos. 145 and 615 Squadrons), 1 Spitfire (No. 64 Squadron); category unknown, pilot wounded.

  Patrols:

• 70 patrols despatched involving 266 aircraft.

  Balloons:

• Flying 1166. Casualties 20.

  Aerodromes:

• Catterick unserviceable.

  Organisation:

• No 238 Squadron from Middle Wallop to Warmwell.
• No 32 Squadron from Biggin Hill to Hawkinge
• No 65 Squadron from Hornchurch to Manston.

  Air Intelligence Reports

• None.

  Home Security Reports

• 16th/17th July 1940

• General Summary

• During the 17th July there was little enemy activity. Slight bomb dropping was widely dispersed but no serious damage has been reported.

• Detailed Summary

• Further information on 3 HE dropped at Fraserburgh is that damage was done to a small naval store and contents. Casualties at Fraserburgh and Portsoy now number 26.
• No reports have been received of bombs dropped on aerodromes during the 17th July.
• Near Ashford (Kent) bombs dropped demolished three houses and damaged the railway track which was, however, quickly repaired.
• Considerable damage was done to the ICI works at Ardeer (Ayrshire) but there is no serious interference with production.

  Battle of Britain

[mick]

Here I am trying to be serious thinking about weighty subjects like will Hitler invade Endland and will the Dems draft FDR and you guys make me scrowl back up to study a cigarette ad !!....and dammit it sure looks like Reagan to me...LOL

[stormer]

[mware]

I have a pack of chesterfields up in my attic.

My dad use to smoke them.

This pack is left over from 1945, when my dad came home from WW2. He put all the stuff from his duffel bag into a big chest and put it in the attic.

What a treasure trove; an ash tray made out of lava from the eruption of Mt Vesuvius, a ring from a German paratrooper with Malta written on it, two edelweiss pressed between the glass from a German plane, a Nazi flag from Nuremberg, and a German helmet he got after the Battle of the Bulge.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I thought so too, but Reagan advertised Chesterfields and I can’t imagine he would have been in ads for two different brands.

I don't think posing for an artist's rendition of an unidentified happy smoker is the same as an endorsement. Maybe Reagan was still accepting the odd modeling gig. He had made some memorable movies (and during 1940 would play the role of George Gipp in "Knute Rockne, All-American") but he was still the up-and-coming Hollywood star. The ad Stormer posted above plugs the movie "Hong Kong," which was made in 1952. Maybe Reagan hadn't signed with Chesterfield yet.

[baseballmom]

I enjoy your posts, and all the comments, very much. Thanks

[CougarGA7]

Wow. Some of those are museum pieces.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

That whole charade about leaving the decision to break the 150 year tradition of ‘no third term’ to the delegates demonstrates that politics has always had a nauseating quality.