The Pearl Harbor attack is in 204 days.

The German government has declared the Red Sea a blockaded zone, warning that all shipping there is subject to sinking.

President Roosevelt has rebuffed this threat.

Recalling America’s defeat of the Barbary Pirates in the Mediterranean in the 1800s, he noted the country’s history of defending freedom of the seas, making clear the US would use its naval power to defend American shipping.

Meanwhile, as British forces make headway in North Africa, much of Britain is perplexed over the arrival of Germany’s Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolf Hess, in Scotland a week ago.

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