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The day in dispatches
Filed through the day, as it happened
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Roosevelt keeps the text of his message to Kalinin private for now
WASHINGTON President Roosevelt said at his White House press conference today that he is keeping the text of his message to Mikhail Kalinin, the Soviet head of state, private for now, to avoid it being seen as a pressure move.
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Berlin denies its press chief asked Roosevelt to stop the war
BERLIN Otto Dietrich, the Reich Press Chief, made no appeal to President Roosevelt to intervene in the war, DNB, the German news agency, said in a statement issued in Berlin this afternoon.
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Germany says Chamberlain has refused Hitler's offer of a final settlement
BERLIN Neville Chamberlain refused the chance of a final peaceful settlement of Europe that Adolf Hitler had offered, according to an official German statement read to foreign correspondents in Berlin at midday today.
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Roosevelt has sent Kalinin a message on Finland, State Department says
WASHINGTON President Roosevelt has sent a personal message to Mikhail Kalinin, the Soviet head of state, expressing the hope that peaceful relations in the Baltic and the independence of Finland will be kept, the State Department said yesterday.
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Where things stood at the start of the day
- Peace
- Chamberlain told the Commons that Hitler's peace terms, which rest on Germany's conquests, are impossible for Britain to accept.
- Parliament
- Attlee and Sinclair backed the answer, and Stanhope read it in the Lords for Halifax.
- Finland
- Paasikivi has arrived in Moscow for talks with the Soviet Government.
- Estonia
- A protocol on where Soviet land and air forces will be stationed in Estonia has been signed in Tallinn.
- Lithuania
- Lithuania is to receive Vilna under its mutual assistance pact with Moscow.
- Shipping
- The American ship Iroquois has reached New York safely.