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EDITORIAL COMMENTTHE INEVITABLE HAS HAPPENEDThe unprovoked attack of Japan on America possessions simply marked the occurrence of the h evitable. For many months, most authorities hai been convinced that we could not avoid formal part cipation m the war that now engulfs all the contir ents The big question was when and where the spar would be ignited. The Japanese militarists, spurre by their Axis comrades, have answered that questio for us and for the world. 4The American people enter this war with a sens of grim and bitter necessity. No thinking man want war. It is to the great credit of our government tha it did everything possible, within the bounds of oir national honor and interests, to maintain peace. Tha:effort failed through no-fault of those who administe]our governmental affairs. It failed because the ruthless conquerors of our time are bent on world domination. Nothing less can satisfy them. It is all or nothing. And so, at last, the democratic world is allied in arms against the totalitarian world in the greatest war history has ever known.Here in America the task is clear. The American people will support their government to the limit, and they will make whatever sacrifices prove necessary. I he issue of intervention versus non-intervention is as dead as last year’s news. The isolationist leaders displaying that patriotism which characterizes all true Americans, however different their opinions have pledged their full support to the President and the nation. From tins time on, it is the job of all to show the world that a free America is more than a match for any adversary.The soldiers and the sailors who fight in this we carry into battle a traditional freedom. They are nlt; the unthinking, “heiling” subjects of a dictator. The are not steves, living and dying like puppets at tTi whim of a master. They have been reared in th freest of all great nations, under the ideals which Lir coin called, “The last, best hope of earth.” They kno' what they are fighting for. They know how preciou freedom is. And they know the sorrowful truth tha blood must be shed if freedom is to be preserved.Back of the fighting men of America will beproduction machine unparalleled on earth. Labor am industry will not shirk the gigantic task that tim and circumstance have given it. The price of lailur would be the death of freedom. The days ahead wil be hard and bitter, but no one can doubt what thlt;6f ri ?nd wi3i be~vict«ry for freedom, for a wa^ of life that respects the dignity of man.It is all there in one word—freedom. Freedom o speech, freedom of press, freedom of worship, freedorr of enterprise. These are what we possess, and theseforever ^ ^ figilting to cavs and to perpetuateAmerican industry is ready for this war. Go dow the roster of our great private enterprises—the rai roads, the power systems, the steel mills, the mote makers, the coal and metal mines, the oil wells an refining plants, the airplane factories and the res American enterprise represents a veritable miracle c preparedness. And now the tempo of production wi be stepped up again and again. There can be nbmsness as usual,” “strikes as usual,” or “politics a usual, from now on.w - — wLet there be no despair. Let there be instead, uicompromising determination. War has been force 1 011 us by.a nati0« to whic uawun to wniCwe offered firm friendship, economic cooperation, a!V°^cltS P^ms-everything, ^ short, exce]J5£*£ Sfeaadteitnw and conqum-. No^ i--—^ a.iuuiiuuer. i\cour enemies will learn how free men, backed by tt limitless resources of our free enterprise system, caacquit themselves in battle.hirStS
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McKean County Democrat
Smethport, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Dec 18, 1941
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