5 Mar 1938
- Iwane Matsui was recalled to Japan. ww2dbase [Iwane Matsui | CPC]
- Chen Lifu stepped down as a committee member of the Chinese central government. ww2dbase [Chen Lifu | CPC]
- The Hungarian Army, the Honvedseg, decided to embark upon a major rearmament programme (Hubs 1) and one thousand million pengos was allotted from the national budget with a significant amount assigned for the acquisition of light tanks for the new fast brigades. ww2dbase [AC]
- Joseph Stalin and the Politburo ordered the Military Collegium to sentence former VCheKa member Valentin Trifonov to death per the recommendation of the GUGB of the Soviet NKVD. ww2dbase [Joseph Stalin | CPC]
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