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August 5, 1939

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CHAMBERLAIN SAYS BRITAIN MAY SEND FLEET TO FAR EAST; 'It Makes My Blood Boil,' He Says of Japanese Insults to Britons in China STRESSES EUROPEAN PERIL Explains His Hands in Orient Are Tied by Nearer Problems of 'Next Few Months'

By Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. Special Cable To the New York Times

Chamberlain s on Tokyo conf and anti-Brit drives, threatens to send fleet to Far East, Commons; Halifax to guide conf during Parliament recess; France backs Brit in notices to Japan and Gt Brit; Welles denies Anglo-Amer joint action

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Notable Births

Roger Clark (rally driver)

1939Roger Clark, English race car driver (died 1998)[†]

Roger Albert Clark, MBE was a British rally driver during the 1960s and '70s, and the first competitor from his country to win a World Rally Championship (WRC) event when he triumphed at the 1976 RAC Rally.

Carmen Salinas

1939Carmen Salinas, Mexican actress and politician (died 2021)[†]

Carmen Salinas Lozano was a Mexican actress, impressionist, comedian, politician, and theatre entrepreneur. She was associated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) during her later career as a politician.

Notable Deaths

BĂ©la Jankovich

1939BĂ©la Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (born 1865)[†]

BĂ©la Jankovich de Vadas et Jeszenicze was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1913 and 1917. He studied in the Theresianum of Vienna, University of Budapest, University College London and Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. Between 1891 and 1893 he travelled around the world, he went to the United States, to China and Japan. After his returning to home he farmed on his possessions of TĂ©sa.

Historical Events

Las Trece Rosas

1939The Thirteen Roses: Thirteen female members of the Unified Socialist Youth are executed by Francoist forces in Madrid, Spain.[†]

"Las Trece Rosas" is the name given in Spain to a group of thirteen young women who were executed by a Francoist firing squad on 5 August 1939, just after the conclusion of the Spanish Civil War. Their execution was part of a massive execution campaign known as the "saca de agosto", which also included 43 young men.