The day in dispatches
Censorship moves out of the Ministry of Information, Hoare tells Commons
LONDON Press censorship and the issuing of news have been taken away from the Ministry of Information and handed to the departments that supply the news, Sir Samuel Hoare, the Lord Privy Seal, told the House of Commons this afternoon.
British Army in France is under French command, Hore-Belisha says
LONDON The British Army in France is under French command, Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of State for War, told the House of Commons this afternoon.
Britain has sent 158,000 troops to France, the War Secretary says
LONDON Britain transported 158,000 men to France within five weeks of the outbreak of war, Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of State for War, told the House of Commons this afternoon.
Senate rejects Tobey motion to split the neutrality bill, 65 to 26
WASHINGTON The United States Senate yesterday rejected, by 65 votes to 26, a motion by Senator Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire to send the neutrality bill back to the Foreign Relations Committee, according to the Congressional Record.
Finland advises civilians to leave Helsinki and Viipuri areas, Associated Press says
HELSINKI Urho Kekkonen, Finland's Minister of the Interior, has advised civilians to leave the areas around Helsinki, the capital, and Viipuri, a city near the Soviet frontier, as a precaution, the Associated Press reports from Helsinki.
Daladier says France will fight on until its security is guaranteed
PARIS France will go on fighting until it has a definite guarantee of its security, Édouard Daladier, the French Prime Minister, said in a radio broadcast to the French people last night.
Where things stood at the start of the day
- Air training
- Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have agreed in principle to train airmen together, with advanced training mainly in Canada.
- Peace
- Chamberlain will give Britain's answer to Hitler's proposals in the Commons on Thursday, after consulting the Dominions.
- Finland
- Paasikivi has left for Moscow by train for talks with the Soviet Government.
- Sweden
- Sweden is keeping 100,000 men in service beyond their release date.
- Convoys
- Coastal Command says it escorted more than 100 convoys in the first four weeks of the war.
- North Sea
- A German flying boat fell into the sea after a fight with an RAF reconnaissance aircraft, the Ministry of Information says.