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1941
JANUARY '41
NAZI-SOVIET
RELATIONS, 1939-1941
Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Office
JAPANESE FIELD SERVICE CODE ADOPTED
BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT
January 8, 1941
REFUGEE PROBLEM IN FRANCE A NOTE SENT BY SECRETARY
OF STATE CORDELL HULL TO GASTON HENRY-HAYE, FRENCH AMBASSADOR
January 9, 1941
ADDRESS OF PRINCE FUMIMARO KONOYE, PRIME MINISTER
OF JAPAN, DELIVERED BEFORE THE 76TH SESSION OF THE IMPERIAL DIET
Tokyo, Japan, January 21, 1941
ADDRESS BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF JAPAN, YOSUKE
MATSUOKA, DELIVERED BEFORE THE 76TH SESSION OF THE IMPERIAL DIET
Tokyo, Japan, January 21, 1941
TEXT OF SPEECH BY CHANCELLOR ADOLF HITLER, AT
BERLIN SPORTS PALACE
January 30, 1941
FEBRUARY, '41
YOSUKE MATSUOKA JAPAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER'S ADDRESS
AT OPENING OF THAI-FRENCH INDO-CHINA BORDER DISPUTE, MEDIATION CONFERENCE
Tokyo, February 7, 1941
SPEECH BROADCASTED BY PRIME MINISTER WINSTON
CHURCHILL
February 9, 1941
"Give us the tools, and we'll finish the job."
SPEECH DELIVERED BY PREMIER BENITO MUSSOLINI
Rome, Italy, February 23, 1941
SPEECH BY CHANCELLOR HITLER
Delivered at Munich, Germany, February 24, 1941
MARCH, '41
EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR,
CHARLES ARSÈNE-HENRY AND YOSUKE MATSUOKA, JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER
Tokyo, March 11, 1941
MEDIATION TERMS OF THE THAI-FRENCH INDO-CHINA
BORDER DISPUTE
March 11, 1941
CHANCELLOR HITLER'S MEMORIAL ADDRESS
Berlin, Germany, March 16, 1941
RIBBENTROP GREETED MATSUOKA
Berlin, March 27, 1941
APRIL, '41
ADOLF HITLER'S ORDER OF THE DAY CALLING FOR
INVASION OF YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE
Berlin, April 6, 1941
MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO KING PETER
II OF YUGOSLAVIA
April 8, 1941
PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL REVIEWED THE
WAR BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
London, England, April 9, 1941
JOINT RSOLUTION OF THE U.S. CONGRESS REAFFIRMING
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE
April 10, 1941
SOVIET-JAPANESE NEUTRALITY AND DENUNCIATION.
POPE PIUS XII'S EASTER MESSAGE
Vatican City, April 13, 1941
TEXT OF PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S MESSAGE
TO THE YUGOSLAV PEOPLE
April 13, 1941
STATEMENT OF YOSUKE MATSUOKA, JAPANESE FOREIGN
MINISTER, UPON HIS RETURN TO TOKYO FROM EUROPE
April 22, 1941
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S STATEMENT ON
THE WAR IN GREECE
April 25, 1941
PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S BROADCAST
"REPORT ON THE WAR"
April 27, 1941
MAY, '41
ADDRESS BY CHANCELLOR ADOLPH HITLER TO REICHSTAG
Berlin, Germany, May 4, 1941
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S STATEMENT ON THE UNITED
STATES POLICY TOWARD THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
May 15, 1941
MARSHAL PETAIN'S SPEECH TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE
Vichy, France, May 15, 1941
RADIO ADDRESS BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE, CORDELL
HULL
Broadcast from Washington, May 18, 1941
VICE PREMIER DARLAN'S BROADCAST TO THE FRENCH
PEOPLE
Vichy, France, May 23, 1941
PROCLAMATION OF UNLIMITED NATIONAL EMERGENCY
(U.S.)
May 27, 1941
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S BROADCAST
Washington, D. C., May 27, 1941
ANTHONY EDEN'S, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN
AFFAIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN, SPEECH ON BRITISH WAR AIMS
Excerpts from a talk at The Mansion House, London, May 29, 1941.
JUNE, '41
SECRETARY OF STATE, CORDELL HULL, EXPLAINS THE
U.S. ATTITUDE TOWARD FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
June 2, 1941
MESSAGE TO THE GREEKS BROADCAST BY GREEK PREMIER,
EMMANUEL TSOUDEROS
Alexandria, Egypt, June 5, 1941
SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL'S STATEMENT
ON RELATIONS WITH THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
June 5, 1941
THE STATEMENT BY FRENCH AMBASSADOR GASTON HENRY-HAYE
AT WASHINGTON
June 6, 1941
VICE PREMIER DARLAN'S SPEECH TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE
Vichy, France, June 10, 1941
PREMIER BENITO MUSSOLINI'S SPEECH BEFORE THE
CHAMBER OF FASCES AND CORPORATIONS
Rome, Italy, June 10, 1941
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, PRIME MINISTER
CHURCHILL
June 10, 1941
FOURTEEN ALLIES VOW TO FIGHT UNTIL VICTORY IS
WON
St. James's Place, London, Signed June 12, 1941
PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S SPEECH TO
THE ALLIED DELEGATES
St. James's Place, London, June 12, 1941
SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL'S STATEMENT ON
FRANCO-GERMAN COLLABORATION
June 13, 1941
TURKISH-GERMAN FRIENDSHIP TREATY, SIGNED IN
ANKARA
June 18, 1941
HITLER'S EXPLANATION OF THE SOVIET INVASION,
JUNE 21, 1941
ADDRESS BY CHANCELLOR ADOLPH HITLER TO REICHSTAG
REICHFUEHRER ADOLF HITLER'S PROCLAMATION ON
WAR WITH SOVIET UNION
June 22, 1941
STATEMENT BY JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP, GERMAN
FOREIGN MINISTER, ON THE DECLARATION OF WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION
Berlin, June 22, 1941
FOREIGN MINISTER VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV'S BROADCAST
ON THE OUTBREAK OF WAR WITH GERMANY
Moscow, June 22, 1941
MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S BROADCAST ON THE
SOVIET-GERMAN WAR
London, June 22, 1941
ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE, SUMNER WELLES' STATEMENT
ON THE GERMAN REICH'S ATTACK ON THE SOVIET UNION
Washington, June 23, 1941
JULY, '41
STATEMENT OF FOREIGN MINISTER, YOSUKE MATSUOKA,
ON THE WORLD STATE OF EMERGENCY
July 2, 1941
SOVIET PREMIER STALIN'S BROADCAST TO THE PEOPLE
OF THE SOVIET UNION
July 3, 1941
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S BROADCAST ON INDEPENDENCE
DAY
Hyde Park, New York, July 4, 1941
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
ON U. S. OCCUPATION OF ICELAND
July 7, 1941
CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S MESSAGE TO FRIENDLY NATIONS
July 7, 1941
PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL IN HOUSE OF
COMMONS ON U.S. TROOPS IN ICELAND
July 9, 1941
AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALISTIC REPUBLICS
Moscow, July 12, 1941
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
ON EXTENSION OF SELECTIVE SERVICE TERMS OF SERVICE
Washington, D. C., July 21, 1941
ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE SUMNER WELLES' STATEMENT
ON JAPANESE-FRENCH COLLABORATION IN INDOCHINA
July 24, 1941
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S EXECUTIVE
ORDER FREEZING JAPANESE AND CHINESE ASSETS IN THE UNITED STATES
Hyde Park, N. Y., July 25, 1941
AGREEMENT BETWEEN JAPAN AND FRANCE PLEDGING
MILITARY CO-OPERATION IN DEFENSE OF INDO-CHINA
Tokyo, July 29, 1941
POLISH-SOVIET UNION AGREEMENTS
Moscow, July 30, 1941
ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ON PRICE CONTROL
July 30, 1941
AUGUST, '41
STATEMENT BY JAPANESE BOARD OF INFORMATION ON
"REINFORCING JAPANESE FORCES IN INDO-CHINA"
Tokyo, August 1, 1941
EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN THE ACTING SECRETARY
OF STATE SUMNER WELLES AND THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES,
CONSTANTINE A. OUMANSKY
August 2, 1941
MARSHAL PETAIN'S ADDRESS TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE
Vichy, France, August 12, 1941
"THE ATLANTIC CHARTER," JOINT DECLARATION
OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN
August 14, 1941
JOINT MESSAGE OF ASSISTANCE TO THE SOVIET UNION
FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL
August 15, 1941
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ON
"THE ATLANTIC CHARTER"
August 21, 1941
PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S BROADCAST
TO THE WORLD ABOUT THE MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
August 24, 1941
STATEMENT ON SENDING A (U.S.) MILITARY MISSION
TO CHINA
August 26, 1941
SEPTEMBER, '41
CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S MESSAGE TO NATION ON THE TENTH
ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOUKDEN INCIDENT
September 18, 1941
INTER-ALLIED COUNCIL STATEMENT ON THE PRINCIPLES
OF THE ATLANTIC CHARTER
London, September 24, 1941
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S "LIBERTY
FLEET DAY" ADDRESS
Washington, D. C., Sept. 27, 1941
TEXT OF A LETTER FROM AMBASSADOR OF POLAND,
JAN CIECHANOWSKI, TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE, CORDELL HULL, ON THE SUBJECT
OF POLISH-SOVIET RELATIONS
September 29, 1941
PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S REVIEW OF
THE WAR TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
September 30, 1941
OCTOBER, '41
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN, AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE
TO THE CONFERENCE OF UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITAIN, AND THE U.S.S.R.
Speech at the final meeting on October 1, 1941
HITLER'S ORDER OF THE DAY TO THE GERMAN TROOPS
ON THE EASTERN FRONT
Issued October 2, 1941
TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT HANDED BY SECRETARY OF
STATE HULL TO THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR
October 2, 1941
MEMORANDUM OF A CONVERSATION BY SECRETARY OF
STATE, CORDELL HULL, WITH THE MINISTER OF FINLAND, MR. HJALMAR J. PROCOPÉ
October 3, 1941
REICHSFÜHRER ADOLF HITLER'S BROADCAST TO
THE GERMAN PEOPLE
Berlin, October 3, 1941
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S BROADCAST ON "THE
COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION OF HUMAN NEEDS"
Washington, D. C., October 3, 1941
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S LETTER TO THE AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION
Seattle, October 7, 1941
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
TO PREMIER JOSEPH STALIN
October 8, 1941
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
URGING THE ARMING OF AMERICAN FLAG SHIPS ENGAGED IN FOREIGN COMMERCE
October 9, 1941
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT ON THE EXECUTION OF HOSTAGES
BY THE NAZIS
October 25, 1941
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S "NAVY DAY ADDRESS"
ON THE ATTACK ON THE DESTROYER KEARNEY
October 27, 1941
PARAPHRASE OF A LETTER FROM PRESIDENT FRANKLIN
D. ROOSEVELT TO PREMIER JOSEPH STALIN
Dated October 30, 1941
NOVEMBER, '41
THE REICH GOVERNMENT'S REPLY TO ROOSEVELT'S
NAVY DAY SPEECH
Berlin, November 1, 1941
A PARAPHRASE OF THE REPLY OF PREMIER JOSEPH
STALIN, DATED NOVEMBER 4, 1941, TO THE LETTER OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
OF OCTOBER 30, 1941
November 4, 1941
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO THE DELEGATES
OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION
Delivered in the White House and broadcast over a nation-wide hookup,
November 6, 1941
JOSEPH STALIN'S SPEECH ON RED SQUARE ON ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
November 7, 1941
SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL AT THE MANSION
HOUSE REGARDING INVOLVEMENT IN A US-JAPANESE WAR BY THE BRITISH
London, November 10, 1941
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S ARMISTICE DAY ADDRESS
Arlington Cemetery, November 11, 1941
MAJESTY, KING GEORGE VI, AT THE OPENING OF THE
HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
November 12, 1941
MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL REVIEWS THE WAR IN
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
November 12, 1941
JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER TOGO SHIGENORI'S ADDRESS
TO THE IMPERIAL DIET
November 17, 1941
THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS REPEALS OF THE 1939
NEUTRALITY ACT
November 17, 1941
UNITED STATES TROOPS SENT TO SURINAM (DUTCH
GUIANA) TO GUARD BAUXITE MINES
November 24, 1941
SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL'S STATEMENT
ON FINNISH-GERMAN MILITARY COOPERATION
November 28, 1941
DECEMBER, '41
HITLER ON PUNISHMENT OF OFFENDERS IN OCCUPIED
TERRITORY,
DECEMBER 7, 1941
"Night-and-Fog Decree" (Nacht-und-Nebel Erlass).
CANADA
DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN,
December 7, 1941
AUSTRALIA
DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN
December 8, 1941
THE KINGDOM
OF THE NETHERLANDS DECLARES WAR WITH JAPAN
December 8, 1941
PRIME
MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S BROADCAST ON WAR WITH JAPAN December 8,
1941
THE
UNITED KINGDOM'S NOTIFICATION OF A STATE OF WAR WITH JAPAN December
8, 1941
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S ADDRESS TO
CONGRESS
(Asking for a Declaration of a State of War between the United States
and Japan, December 8, 1941)
CHINA'S
DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST JAPAN, ALSO AGAINST GERMANY AND ITALY
December 9, 1941
THE
GERMAN DECLARATION OF WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES
December 11, 1941
HITLER
ANNOUNCED TO THE REICHSTAG THE DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES
December 11, 1941
MUSSOLINI'S
WAR STATEMENT
Rome, December 11, 1941
GERMANY,
ITALY, AND JAPAN SIGN NEW PACT BARRING A SEPARATE PEACE WITH THE UNITED
STATES OR GREAT BRITAIN
December 11, 1941
PRIME
MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S REVIEW OF THE WAR TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
December 11, 1941
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S ADDRESS TO
CONGRESS
(Requesting recognition of a State of War existing between the United
States and Germany and the United States and Italy, December 11, 1941)
EAMON
DE VALERA'S SPEECH ON EIRE NEUTRALITY CORK, IRELAND
December 12, 1941
JOSEPH
GOEBBELS' PLEA FOR CLOTHING FOR TROOPS ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT, ALSO HITLER'S
PROCLAMATION READ BY GOEBBELS
December 20, 1941
THE
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE DIRECT COMMAND BY ADOLPH HITLER WITH
HIS PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN ARMY
December 21, 1941
PRIME
MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S ADDRESS TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
December 26, 1941
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