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August 20th, 1939 (SUNDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM:
Lord Halifax telegrams Kennard in Warsaw, requesting him to urgently try once more to gain
Polish permission for Russian forces to enter their country.
FRANCE: Normandy:
Churchill, resting at the St.
Georges-Motel, the château of Consuelo Balsan, ex-Duchess of Marlborough, paints
a picture of the building and remarks to his companion painter, the Anglo-French
artist Paul Maze "This is the last picture we shall paint in peace for a very
long time." (178 and
179 V Part 3, p. 1591)
GERMANY:
Hitler writes to Stalin:
The tension between Germany and Poland has become intolerable ...
A crisis may arise any day. Germany is at any rate determined from now on to
look after the interests of the Reich with all the means
at her disposal.
U.S.S.R.: In the early hours of the morning an agreement in signed between Germany and the Soviet
Union. Hitler suspecting Molotov might cause delays in its ratification sends a personal
message to Stalin urging all speed.
Khalkin-Gol: 5:45AM, 150 bombers carry out a massive raid on the forward edge of the
Japanese defences, their close-in reserves and artillery positions.
The Soviets then assault along the entire front. Forces in the south gain the most ground,
northern forces occupy the forward enemy positions reaching the fortified top of Palets
Heights but are beaten back after a fierce fight.
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