When Presidents realized that adding to the public domain was a good thing.
In 1954 the Harney National Forest was added to the Black Hills, so it is no longer a separate administrative unit.
Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us....Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true he is still with Hale and Dorr. It is true that he will continue to be with Hale and Dorr. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think I am a gentleman, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.
Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild ... Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
An interesting and sympathetic, while honest, treatment of a story we first looked at here in the context of her marriage during the Second World War.
DiMaggio, who we would have to assume had a thing for blond starlets, as this notes, would cap his marital attempts at two. Monroe attempted three times. So did Dorothy Arnold, who we would have to characterize as a minor actress. She died in 1970, leaving behind her third spouse.
Arnold and DiMaggio's union resulted in the only child either of them had, the troubled Joseph Paul DiMaggio III. He lived a troubled life, there being a lesson in here, but interestingly remained close to Monroe after his father and the actress divorced. He was one of the last people she called. He died at age 57.
On this day in 1942 the Hukbalahap Rebellion, a Communist peasant rebellion, commenced in the Philippines. The Huks, as they were called, conducted a guerilla war against the Japanese which lasted through the war and turned into a rebellion against the Philippine government which lasted until 1954.
The movement was supported by the US during the war, and opposed by it after the war.
It was interestingly put down after the war not only by military means, but by political reforms that co-opted the most pressing grievances of the Huks, leaving them essentially without a political base.
Stafford Cripps met with Mahatma Gandhi and presented British plans for a semi-independent India after World War Two.
Cripps was a left wing lawyer and a member of the Labour Party. He'd been ambassador to the Soviet Union before it was attacked, during which time Cripps had warned Stalin that a German attack was inevitable. Churchill had appointed him to the position due to Cripp's Marxist sympathies. He became a member of the war cabinet during the war and his mission to India presented a plan of his own devising which met with support from nobody on either side of the issue. After the war he was a figure in the Labour government and was one of those who approved of the sending of jet engines to the Soviet Union, something Stalin had dismissed as impossible due to being "foolish", which resulted in the design going into the early Mig 15s.
The Japanese won at Toungoo.
In a bizarre event, German internees managed to convince their native Indonesian guards to rise up in a rebellion against the Dutch on the island of Nias, and declared it to be an independent state. This followed Japanese landings on other Indonesian islands. The Japanese would land on Nias in April and they removed all of the Europeans, save for a physician, from the island.
U.S. Navy Patrol Squadron 14 arrived in Oahu.
The United States Army occupied Dutch Guiana (Surinam), which is now Suriname.
Today the country is a South American republic we frankly hardly ever think of, which all in all may generally be a good thing. At this point in history, however, it was a Dutch colony, which it had been since the 1600s. During the war, the Dutch government reconsidered its status, and it obtained a type of dominion status in 1954, and full independence in 1975.
The US had been concerned about its bauxite deposits prior to this date, not wanting them to fall to the Axis, although exporting bauxite from northern South America to Germany would have been impossible. The occupation did secure them for the Allies, however.
This time is noted here:
Also noted there, trucks were now crossing Lake Lagoda, having followed a horse-drawn mission of the day prior.
The British were thrown back at Sidi Rezegh in the desert.
A bomb went off outside the U.S. Consulate in occupied Saigon, although there were no injuries. Shades of things to come.
A large fire damaged parts of Seward Alaska.
Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us....Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true he is still with Hale and Dorr. It is true that he will continue to be with Hale and Dorr. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think I am a gentleman, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.
Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild ... Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
