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Forts Delay Nazis – 2-3
Russians Hit Back – 3
Nazis Order Café Silence for Radio Communiques – 3
The International Situation – 4
Hopkins at Session of British Cabinet – 4
Red Commissars Restored to Dual Army Commands – 4-5
The British Rulers Greet the Heads of Nazi-Invaded Countries (photo) – 5
Halifax Praises American Planes – 6
New Nazi Film Reveals Russian ‘Scorched Earth’ – 6
To Build 83 Tankers Before End of 1943 – 7
Russia in the Crucible – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 8-9
Red Army Exploits Listed – 9-10
Red Writer Tells of Fight in Baltic – 10
Soviet Air Hero Congratulated by His Colleagues (photo) – 10
Smith and Bagby Stop Yankee Star (by John Drebinger) – 11-12
DiMaggio’s Record Streak – 11

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jul41/f18jul41.htm

Japanese PM shuffles Cabinet

Friday, July 18, 1941 www.onwar.com

In Tokyo... Prince Konoye re-forms his Cabinet with Baron Hiranuma as deputy prime minister and Admiral Toyoda as foreign minister. Already personally unpopular, Matsuoka is removed because he has been urging that the Neutrality Agreement with the Soviets should be abandoned and that Japan should join with Germany in the attack on the USSR. The other Japanese leaders do not wish to take such a decisive step, and have decided that without Matsuoka and his known liking for Hitler they have a better chance of reaching an agreement with the US over the pressing problem of oil resources.

In London... Britain formally recognizes the Benes government as the legal provisional government of Czechoslovakia. A friendship and mutual assistance agreement between the Czechs and the Soviets is signed in London.