Eighty Years Ago: Asia Pacific, July 11 – 17, 1940

July 11, 1940: Frank Knox assumes office as US secretary of the navy

July 12, 1940: Light cruiser USS Phoenix reaches Chile’s Pacific coast on goodwill tour to South American nation.

July 13, 1940: To appease Japan, Britain offers partial closure of Burma Road, one of the only supply lines to beleaguered free China

July 14, 1940: Japan lodges complaint over US Marines stationed in Shanghai for their arrest of 14 plainclothes Japanese

July 15, 1940: Japanese Airways announces new route from Tokyo to Bangkok via Hanoi in French Indochina

July 16, 1940: Defeatist mood spreading in Philippines establishment amid growing recognition that archipelago’s armed forces will be unable to repel a foreign invasion

July 17, 1940: Japanese Cabinet under Admiral Yonai Mitsumasa resigns

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