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— — w «•»lrA Proper Secretary ®f the NavySecretary Frank Knox did not sit around Washington to argue nor listen to arguments about the Jap attack on Hawaii.He hopped a plane and was at the scene of battle in slightly over 24 hours.Returns to report to his Com-mander-in-Chief, who reports to the nation.Thus wild rumors are dispensed with in favor of first hand facts.The damage to our ships and planes by the ‘'surprise stab1* was considerable, but It is now fully discounted and bitter penalty will beexacted in due course.. /The UNITED” States of America,For the first time in a quarter of a century, the word ,‘United,, could he used with the nearest to truthfulness.Such a number of petty things could keep us disunited”-*differing views on politics—on economics — on our world place and policy—with sometimes a Babel of discord.Then a single treacherous, murderous attack by the Japanese part*-ner of Hitler and the Babel voices becomes one single clear American voice..The voice of a Giant—angry, but really relieved that these enemies can no longer hide behind lying phrases of friendship and good will.”The picture is now plain and clear and Germany and Japan With their vassal Italy are out in the open with the only declared purpose of conquering the world.in the world which they propose to conquer, the English speaking nations are the greatest obstacles, by reason of their wealth and their power to produce the modem weai*-ons of war.We will be fighting a long way from home and in the Fortunes of War we can expect some reverses from enemies who for many years have been planning this war—which all but a few of our statesmen have belittled as a fantastic imagination.The President with rare foresight saw the coming. danger, but was compelled to fight each step otjire-paring to meet it.The cheerful thing is that now the nation knows and now Republicans and Democrats, labor union disputes, domestic enmities submerge differ-. ences and a United” America stands fdrth'lo meet and destroy the challenge of Barbarism,Tie cowardly attack by the Japs may pnftk to have been the alarm dock neeoW to really wake Uncle 6am.iviuIber Jap an] rop Sts sea mo I Jap to 1 tha Ma Boi Inc of • bee be lan lyli am Sol Boi froi the fon I thr Bri cos 1 ipp Thifidof]sug a s por onsurforof \StatendetWatheconattiexcthewhiTtWiStu ten in Me 1 las, B*mugroDaijec1Thlt;B«aCIsch
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McKean County Democrat
Smethport, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Dec 18, 1941
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