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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Tuesday, 28 November, 1939
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Tuesday, 28 November, 1939

Moscow, reporting three new incidents of Finnish troops firing upon 
Russian soldiers and attempting to cross the border, renounces
the 1932 Soviet-Finnish Non-Agression Pact.  Finland claims that the 
artillery fired into Mainila was Soviet, not Finnish.

Berlin announces that Lieutenant-Captain Gunther Prien, whose U-47 sank
the HMS Royal Oak, has sunk a cruiser of the 10,000-ton London class.
The British Admiralty denies the claim.

British aircraft machinegun three German seaplanes at their base on
the Ems river.  The seaplanes are reportedly of the minelaying sort.

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"Our government sought by all means to settle the conflict peacefully,
but the Finnish Government did not want that.  Now let them look out."
- From a Workers' Resolution at the Stalin automobile works in Moscow


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