U.S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, after a meeting with Adolf Hitler in Berlin, arrives in London to discuss a peacemaking proposal with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to prevent a widening of the European war. Welles briefs Chamberlain on Hitler's intransigence, arguing that the only hope for a lasting peace is the progressive disarmament of the belligerents, primarily Germany. Chamberlain's foreign ministers are less than impressed with the suggestion, believing that even a "disarmed" Germany could still invade a smaller, weaker nation. In short, Welles' trip accomplished nothing.
Minesweeping trawler HMS Elm commissioned.
ITALY: The German foreign minister, Joachim von
Ribbentrop, meets with the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, and invites him
to meet with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
GIBRALTAR: U.S. freighters SS
Explorer, SS Exchester, and SS West Cohas are detained at Gibraltar by British
authorities; all are released, however, after only several hours.
U.S.A.: The National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC’s)
experimental TV station W2XBS in New York City broadcasts extracts from “I
Pagliacci,” performed by the Metropolitan Opera Company, the first US television
presentation of opera.. The audio portion is carried over the NBC Blue Network
radio station WJZ.