75 years ago today… June 26, 1939 The Secretary of State for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, announced that the Royal Air Force would impress civil aircraft in the event of war. France hears the Reich army will attack Poland to stem unrest at home. Nazi acts are seen as a prelude to war. The Reich opens a drive of “rights or war,” taunting Britain. Citing Axis unity, Hitler says the future belongs to them. Russia reports a big Mongol battle in which 120 planes are said to clash on the border. A U.S. Army enlisting drive sets a goal of 112,500. The American Bar Association criticizes prisons and judges; sentences are too often based on hunches, they say. The National Woman’s Party holds that bars to married women’s employment are a step toward fascism. Many on relief in the US are not employable. One-third of households have no one who can work. Lou Gehrig’s case spurs medical research into his baffling disease. The hardening of his spinal cord is not really a form of infantile paralysis, as originally diagnosed. The Imperial Japanese Air Forces 2nd Air Brigade (2nd AB) struck the Soviet air base at Tamsak-Bulak in Mongolia. The Japanese won this engagement, but the strike had been ordered by the Kwangtung Army without getting permission from Imperial Japanese Army headquarters in Tokyo. In an effort to prevent the incident from escalating, Tokyo promptly ordered the Japanese Army Air Force to not conduct any more air strikes against Soviet airbases.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:03:22 +0000
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