RESERVE BOARD ASKS FISCAL REFORM TO AVOID INFLATION IN DEFENSE EFFORT (1/2/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 1/2/41 | Frederick R. Barkley, C.L. Sulzberger, G.E.R. Gedye, James Aldridge

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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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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
North Africa, 1940: Graziani’s Advance and Wavell’s Offensive, 13 September 1940-7 February 1941 (Map 34a)
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin (Map 33)
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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For a Firm Dollar – 2-3
Stalin Warns his Nation to be Ready for Attack – 3
The International Situation – 4
Navy Base Bombed – 4-5
Italians Fall Back in Klisura Region – 5
Turkey Rounds Up Counterfeiters in Plot to Debase the British Pound – 6
Cold is Worst Enemy in Albania; Fight in Northeast Now Desultory – 6-7
Major Sports Yesterday – 7
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 8

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jan41/f02jan41.htm

Liberty ships made in USA

Thursday, January 2, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Washington... Roosevelt announces a program to produce 200 7500-ton freighters to standardized designs. They will be known as Liberty ships.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/02.htm

January 2nd, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM:
The blackout is said to have established the importance of Vitamin A for good eyesight in the dark. Experiments have shown that it improves the ability of the eyes to adjust quickly in going from light to dark - as happens on going outdoors in the blackout. Cod-liver oil is recommended.
Surveys also reveal that 1 in 5 Britons have had an accident in the blackout. Road deaths exceed 2000, 1,700 more than the same period in peacetime. Most of the victims are pedestrians. Things may get better though. There are fewer cars due to petrol rationing and motorists have to paint the bumpers and running boards white. Kerbs and tree trunks are also being whitened. From February a 20 mph speed limit is to be introduced and British Summer Time will begin on February 25th.
RAF Bomber Command: North Sea reconnaissance. Three German aircraft destroyed; two British aircraft lost.

AA cruiser HMS Coventry damaged in a German air attack on the Shetland Islands. (Dave Shirlaw)

GERMANY: U-555, U-556, U-751 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Prague: Journalists and ex-army officers are rounded up in a new wave of arrests by the Nazis.

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http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 490 January 2, 1941

Operation Compass. British air, land and sea forces prepare for the assault on Bardia. Overnight (Jan 1-2), artillery moves into position in a depression 450 m from the Western edge of the Italian defenses. During the day, monitor HMS Terror and gunboats HMS Ladybird & HMS Aphis, screened by destroyer HMS Dainty and HMAS Voyager, bombard Bardia. The flotilla is unsuccessfully attacked by Italian aircraft. Overnight (Jan 2-3), RAF Wellingtons of 70 Squadron and Bristol Bombays of 216 Squadron bomb Italian positions as the Australian 6th Division moves forward to their starting points.

At 10.07 PM 250 miles West of Port-Étienne, Mauritania (part of French West Africa), U-65 sinks British SS Nalgora carrying equipment to General Wavell’s Middle East Command. 102 crew and 3 passengers take to the lifeboats. 19 crew in 1 lifeboat make land on Cape Verde Islands. 86 survivors are picked up by British freighters Nolisement and Umgeni after 8 days adrift. This completes a successful patrol for U-65, sinking 8 ships (47,800 tons) in 49 days off the coast of West Africa and becoming the first U-boat to cross the Equator.

300 miles Northwest of Ireland, U-38 is depth charged by a convoy escort. U-38 is slightly damaged but able to continue with the patrol.

[CougarGA7]

I’m wondering who Stalin expects to attack them. I could understand if they are still cautious about Germany but at this point in time anyway, they are still aligned. With Stalin’s paranoia I wouldn’t be surprised if he expected an attack from the British in some fashion or maybe the Japanese.

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I’m wondering who Stalin expects to attack them.

Maybe he is afraid the Greeks have developed a taste for conquest after beating up the Italians and they will head for the Kremlin after they finish up in Albania. Or maybe he is slipping in the polls and needs a crisis to shore up his support.

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I was thinking maybe the Turks wanted to re-establish the Ottoman Empire. At least they border Russia.