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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

Posted on 7/17/2010, 12:48:11 PM by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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.
1 posted on 7/17/2010, 12:48:15 PM by Homer_J_Simpson
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William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

2 posted on 7/17/2010, 12:49:34 PM by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

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


3 posted on 7/17/2010, 12:50:01 PM by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
With “this form of warfare,” Churchill is talking about amphibious operations – Homer

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Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

4 posted on 7/17/2010, 12:50:57 PM by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; GRRRRR; 2banana; henkster; ...
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.

5 posted on 7/17/2010, 12:52:58 PM by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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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.


6 posted on 7/17/2010, 1:05:57 PM by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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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)


7 posted on 7/17/2010, 1:07:27 PM by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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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).


8 posted on 7/17/2010, 1:15:04 PM by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Is that Ronald Reagan in the Camels ad?


9 posted on 7/17/2010, 1:22:34 PM by TimSkalaBim
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I thought so too, but Reagan advertised Chesterfields and I can’t imagine he would have been in ads for two different brands.


10 posted on 7/17/2010, 1:30:52 PM by stormer
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Battle of Britain Campaign Diary

Date: 17 July 1940


11 posted on 7/17/2010, 2:44:42 PM by CougarGA7
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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


12 posted on 7/17/2010, 2:47:11 PM by mick (Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
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13 posted on 7/17/2010, 3:40:13 PM by stormer
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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.

14 posted on 7/17/2010, 3:50:19 PM by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, Free Republic.com baby.)
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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.

15 posted on 7/17/2010, 4:22:54 PM by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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I enjoy your posts, and all the comments, very much. Thanks


16 posted on 7/17/2010, 4:46:06 PM by baseballmom (Philadelphia Phillies - 2009 National League Champions)
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To: mware

Wow. Some of those are museum pieces.


17 posted on 7/17/2010, 5:30:46 PM by CougarGA7
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To: pnh102

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.


18 posted on 7/17/2010, 6:28:32 PM by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Good night. I expect more respect tomorrow - Danny H (RIP))
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