Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai Antonescu met with Benito Mussolini in an effort to secure Mussolini's cooperation for both countries to leave the Axis and exit World War Two. Mussolini was non-committal.
Romania clearly saw which way the war was going and that the time had come to get out. It likely figured it couldn't get out on its own, however.
The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps became the Women's Army Corps, reflecting it having achieved permanent status.
On the same day, the Cadet Nurse corps was established.
The organization hoped to relieve wartime and peacetime nursing shortages.
The Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare issued it's An Investigation of Global Policy, with the Yamato Race as Nucleus. Based on Nazi concepts of racism and Lebensraum, it justified the ongoing attempt at expansion of the Japanese Empire and planned to impose Japanese names, the Japanese language and the Shinto religion on all minorities within the Empire.
President Roosevelt commuted the death sentence of German-born Detroit restaurant owner Max Stephan to life imprisonment. Scheduled to hang in just seven hours, Stephan had been convicted for harboring a German POW who had escaped captivity in Canada, and even taking the fellow to a tour of Detroit restaurants.
An item about keeping your radio working from this month in 1943, something vitally important as there was no wartime radio production.
