In Occupied France... Hitler meets General Franco at Hendaye in southern France. Hitler tries to persuade Franco to join the war and offers as bait the allocation of Gibraltar and territory in North Africa. Franco is uncertain about how to proceed and successfully muddles the issue, leaving Hitler no better informed as to what is Spanish policy but without causing offense.
Churchill inspects Polish troops at St Andrews in Scotland, accompanied by his wife Clementine and General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government-in-Exile and commander of Polish forces, 23 October 1940.-
This smiling girl, dirtied but apparently not injured, was assisted across a London street on October 23, 1940, after she was rescued from the debris of a building damaged by a bomb attack in a German daylight raid.
