FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

JUNE 6, 1942 PRESIdENT ROOSEVELT gave warning to Japan that she must stop using poisonous gas against the Chinese, or America will gas the Japanese in return. He said ‘retaliation in full measure will be meted out’. JUNE 6, 1969 PRINCE CHARLES may join the Armed Forces when he leaves Cambridge next year. The Prince, 20, soon to be invested Prince of Wales, reveals this in the most candid interview he has yet given. Of his on-stage roles at university, he complains: ‘I was always cast in rather serious roles, and I think of myself more as a comic character. I love doing comic parts.’ [He went on to serve with the RAF and the Royal Navy.]