| In Bucharest... The Romanian Prime Minister,
Armand Calinescu, is murdered by
members of the Iron Guard, a fascist organization. Assassins blocked the
path of his car with a wooden cart and fired pistol shots into him and
his bodyguards. The assailants then forcibly enter a radio station and
broadcast that "the death sentence on Calinescu has been
executed." They are later overpowered and shot to death at the
location of their murder of the prime minister. A large crowd is
present. Their bodies are left to lie there for the next 24 hours. The
assassination is in apparent retaliation for the tolerant, even sympathetic,
attitude of the Romanian government toward Poland, exemplified by the acceptance of Polish military and civilian refugees.
In Poland... German forces intensify the artillery bombardment
of key points in Warsaw.
In Occupied Poland... Nazi occupation authorities initiate
"The Heydrich Plan" which involves the deportation of 600,000
Jews from Danzig and western Poland to central Poland to be concentrated
in urban ghettoes.
In Luxemburg... Radio Luxemburg closes down.
In London... The British government publishes its Blue Book
of prewar diplomatic documents.
In Washington... President Roosevelt addresses a special joint
session of Congress and urges the repeal of the Neutrality Act
provisions embargoing arms sales to belligerent countries. "Our
acts must be guided by one single hard-headed thought -- keeping America
out of this war," the president said. Allowing arms to be sold on a
cash-and-carry basis would be "better calculated than any other
means to keep us out of war."
In the United States... Newspapers allege that senior Nazis,
including Goebbels and Hess, have foreign investments worth over $12
million.
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