In Bucharest… The Romanian Prime Minister, Armand Calinescu, is murdered by members of the Iron Guard, a fascist organization. Assassins blocked the path of his car with a wooden cart and fired pistol shots into him and his bodyguards. The assailants then forcibly enter a radio station and broadcast that “the death sentence on Calinescu has been executed.” They are later overpowered and shot to death at the location of their murder of the prime minister. A large crowd is present. Their bodies are left to lie there for the next 24 hours. The assassination is in apparent retaliation for the tolerant, even sympathetic, attitude of the Romanian government toward Poland, exemplified by the acceptance of Polish military and civilian refugees.

In Poland… German forces intensify the artillery bombardment of key points in Warsaw.

In Occupied Poland… Nazi occupation authorities initiate “The Heydrich Plan” which involves the deportation of 600,000 Jews from Danzig and western Poland to central Poland to be concentrated in urban ghettoes.

In Luxemburg… Radio Luxemburg closes down.

In London… The British government publishes its Blue Book of prewar diplomatic documents.

In Washington… President Roosevelt addresses a special joint session of Congress and urges the repeal of the Neutrality Act provisions embargoing arms sales to belligerent countries. “Our acts must be guided by one single hard-headed thought – keeping America out of this war,” the president said. Allowing arms to be sold on a cash-and-carry basis would be “better calculated than any other means to keep us out of war.”

In the United States… Newspapers allege that senior Nazis, including Goebbels and Hess, have foreign investments worth over $12 million.