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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Saturday, 5 April, 1941
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Saturday, 5 April, 1941

Addis Ababa, capital of Italian East Africa, falls to Commonwealth troops.

Yugoslavia and the USSR sign a mutual Friendship and Non-Aggression Pact.

Japan, with only a month's supply of rubber, declares that a Japanese
dealers' association of will control all rubber exports from Indochina,
Thailand, and the Dutch East Indies.

Italian forces advancing along the Libyan coast occupy Barce, while
elements of the Gemran 5th Light Division reach Tengeder, south of Mechili.

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"Is it conceivable that the American people will gladly appropriate 
seven billion dollars to aid England and then allow German U-boats to send
it to the bottom of the sea ?" - William Gueren, in a letter to the NY Times