1940 Goering sets the 10th August 1940 as ‘Eagle day’, the start of the Luftwaffe major offensive against the RAF and its Airfields. Italian forces reach Odweina in British Somaliland. Battles at Tug Argan and at Hargeisa. 1941 The Japanese foreign minister, Admiral Nomura, proposes to the USA a meeting between Roosevelt and Prime Minister Konoye. 1942 […]

1940 U.S. and Vichy France reach Green-Slade-Robert Agreement, an understanding on the status of French warships and aircraft in the French West Indies. Montreal mayor Camillien Houde is arrested, and charged under the Defence of Canada Regulations. He is imprisoned at Camp Petawawa in Ontario until the end of the war. Anglo-Polish military agreement signed.

1940 The Italians begin their invasion of British Somaliland, East Africa. Using some 25,000 troops, they push the small British garrison back towards the port of Berbera. 1941 Stimson shows Hull the Magic intercept of Toyoda’s “encirclement” message to Berlin, that Japan and Germany will encircle their enemies, Russia and India. The US Far East

1940 Churchill warns nation against believing rumours that invasion threat is over. Italian troops under General Guglielmo Nasi invade British Somaliland from Italian Ethiopia. 1941 The Archbishop of Munster gives a sermon in which he calls the Nazi euthanasia program murder. The archbishop is imprisoned in a German concentration camp until the end of the

1940 Montreal mayor Camillien Houde publicly urges Quebecers to not sign up for national registration for war duty. Lord Beaverbrook appointed to War Cabinet. French military court sentences de Gaulle to death in absentia. Italy reported to be massing troops on Libya-Egypt border. British Royal Navy bombards Italian naval base on Sardinia. 1941 US and

1940 RAF bomb Krupp works at Essen. British Order in Council declares the start of the grouse shooting season to be August 5 instead of the 12th. Hitler signs Directive No.17, requiring the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine to increase their attacks against Britain and her shipping, in preparation for ‘Operation Sealion’. Russian Foreign Minister Molotov reaffirms