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1931   (SATURDAY) 

UNITED STATES: The government makes oral representations to Japan and China urging a pacific policy and utmost restraint in keeping with League of Nations resolution of 30 September. The resolution notes the Japanese intention of withdrawal of its troops as rapidly as possible and disclaimer of territorial designs in Manchuria. Concern is expressed over the bombing of Chinchow by the Japanese.

 

1933   (TUESDAY) 

UNITED STATES: President Franklin D. Roosevelt invites the Soviets to negotiate toward the establishment of normal diplomatic relations between the two countries stating, "It is most regrettable that these great peoples, between whom a happy tradition of friendship existed for more than a century to their mutual advantage, should now be without a practical method of communicating directly with each other . . ."

 

1935   (THURSDAY) 

GREECE: In a military coup, General George Kondylis ousts the new government, under Panyoti Tsaldaris, which had won the June 1935 national elections. General Kondylis induces the Greek parliament to vote in favor of a recall of King George II.

 

1936   (SATURDAY) 

AUSTRIA: Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg disbands the right-wing Heimwehr (Home Defense Force) and transfers the members to the Fatherland Front militia. He expels the Heimwehr members of his cabinet, eliminating that organization as a political force.

 

1937   (SUNDAY) 

CHINA: Japanese forces capture Shihchiachuang.

 

1938   (MONDAY) 

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Germany completes its annexation of the Sudetenland, the Czech borderlands inhabited by German-speaking people.

 

PALESTINE: The British army regains control of Bethlehem after Arab extremists seized control of the city in early October.

October 10th, 1939 (TUESDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: Recruitment into the Women's land Army is suspended after 25,000 have enrolled.

Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is pushing the British Cabinet to mine Norwegian coastal waters. The target would be the German iron ore ships.

No. 10 Sqn. RAAF fly their first operational sortie over the Atlantic.

The U.S. freighter SS Patrick Henry is detained by British authorities.

British authorities remove 293 sacks of American mail addressed to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and 10 to Antwerp, Belgium, from the U.S. freighter SS Black Gull that has been detained since 6 October. This is among the first instances of the British removing mail addressed to neutral countries and opening and censoring sealed letter mail sent from the United States. (83)

Destroyer HMS Cotswold is laid down.

Destroyer HMS Kandahar is commissioned.

FRANCE: The U.S. freighter SS Syros, detained by French authorities since 14 September, is released.

GERMANY: Admiral Raeder approaches Hitler with the possibility of invading Norway. Churchill, as First Lord of the British Admiralty, is pushing the British Cabinet to mine Norwegian coastal waters. The target would be the German iron ore ships.

The Norwegian freighter SS Brott, detained at Sivinemünde, Germany, since early October with a cargo of wood pulp/wood pulp products, is released by German authorities to proceed on her voyage to the United States.

POLAND: A German victory parade is held in Warsaw.

U.S.S.R.: Moscow: Russia signs the 15 year mutual assistance pact with Lithuania, completing its military presence in all three Baltic states.

In return Lithuania receives the historic city of Vilna (Vilnius), country's old capital which was seized by Poland in 1920.

CANADA: Patrol Vessel HMCS MacDonald is acquired from the RCMP.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: The German armoured ship Graf Spee stops and puts a prize crew on board the British freighter SS Huntsman (8196 BRT).

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