News for this day, even though a war was raging in Europe was sidelined for a while by the Democratic Convention and the unprecedented re-nomination of FDR for a third term as President. Arriving at the Convention this day was was the First Lady, prepared to give a last minute keynote address at the convention.
Mrs Roosevelt was at Hyde Park when somebody at the White House phoned late’ last night and said “how about putting on your hat and looking up a toothbrush and taking the plane for Chicago the first thing tomorrow morning and telling the convention that the first nomination for the third term ever given any American is accepted?” Mrs Roosevelt thought a while and answered that voice at the other end of the phone — that she better ask Mr Farley the chairman of the committee if he wanted her to come.
The next morning the door of the plane opened first the head of a proud little stewardess and then the head of Franklin Roosevelt jr. Mrs Roosevelt emerged with an expression that declared “I said I’d come And here I am”!
In other news – With the fall of France, a new Capitol was established by the German High Command. The Petain Government probably was slated to move to Paris from Vichy this weekend, informed Germans said to day. Leon Noel, a member of the German-French Armistice Commission at Wiesbaden, is said to be in Paris for preliminary negotiations with Gen. Kurt von Briesen, German military commander, following a conference with Marshal Philippe Petain in Vichy. Problems to be solved involve telephone, telegraph and transportation systems and other pub lie facilities, but it was believed there are no major difficulties.Vichy is the latest addition to France’s stop-and-go” capitals. A list which has included in the past month, Paris, Tours, Bordeaux, and Clermont-Ferrand. The newest governmental center is an internationally famous spa visited annually by thousands of Europeans in normal times. The town’s population of less than 20,000 was expanded to 75,000 during the season, from May to October, to a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters the National Geographic society. “Vichy is situated A little southeast of the center of France, on the right bank of the broad but shallow Allier river.
And later on this day, FDR was scheduled to make his acceptance speech – all on July 18, 1940 as reported by NBC.
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