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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Friday 12 July, 1940
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Friday 12 July, 1940


The Luftwaffe continues to raid Britain and Channel shipping.  A night
raid on Aberdeen claims 60 lives.

Britain and Japan announce that they have reached a satisfactory
solution to the Burma Road problem.  Britain has reportedly offered to
close the road to certain kinds of materials for a period of several
months.

President Roosevelt remains aloof from the Democratic primary race.
He announces that he will not attend the upcoming party convention in
Chicago, despite efforts by Senator Byrnes and Secretary of Commerce Hopkins
to "draft" him into running for a third term.  It is uncertain whether they
are, in fact, acting with Roosevelt's agreement.

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"We should be wise enought to keep in mind always that there is no 
wisdom in making alliances that will only cripple and embroil us in
destructive and perhaps race suicidal warfare." - Richard C. Motlan,
in a letter to the New York Times