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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Sunday, 21 July, 1940
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Sunday, 21 July, 1940

Hitler orders his General Staff to prepare plans for a 1941 invasion of 
the USSR.

The Luftwaffe bombs several sites in Britain, and attacks Channel shipping.
British aircraft raid Tobruk harbor and Italian planes attack Malta.

Rumania cedes the region of South Dobrudja to Bulgaria.

The newly-elected communist governments of the Baltic states vote for a 
political union with the USSR; Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are admitted
as constituent republics.

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"If there is danger of losing our civil liberties, let us choose to lose
them under an American President rather than under a German dictator...
Either we prepare to defend ourselves and our way of life, and prepare with
every resource in our power,  or we lose all that we have in the way of
civil liberties." - Herman S. Rosenbaum, in a letter to the New York
Times.