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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Wednesday, 17 July, 1940
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Wednesday, 17 July, 1940

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is nominated for the 1940 presidential
race by the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago.  The Convention also
arrives at a party platform, which includes strict isolationist planks,
calling for non-intervention in foreign wars except in the case of an
attack upon the United States.

A new Japanese government is formed, with Prince Konoye at the head,
and selects General Tojo as his Minister of War.

General Franco of Spain, in a public speech, announces that Spain intends
to regain Gibraltar from England.  Other Spanish sources call for the
re-unification of French and Spanish Morocco.

Chief of Staff George C. Marshall calls for an army of 2 million soldiers,
with 45 infantry and 10 armored divisions, as the minimum required to
defend the western hemisphere.

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