Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-15
Jo pan S
Perfiidy
Shown
Rv lyle c. WILSON

President Roosevelt revealed today
that Japanese submarines as we'll as
airplancs participated in the sudden
ONSLAUGHT ON the Hawaiian Islands
Cn Dec. +.
He made the disclosure in a re-
port to congress on the Background
Of Die war with Japan, in which he
alsG revealed that Japan was max
iag DIutcstatiOns of her desire for
peace three hours and 40 minutes
after the attack began.
The President sent the document
Cd review of japanese American re-
lations to congress as he received a
detailed personal report from Sec
lctary of Navy Frank Knox who
returned last night from a flight
to Hawaii. where he inspected at
firSt-hand the severe damage SUI
stained there by the fleet and by
shore bases in the surprise attack
week ago Sunday.
"ThC actual var and submarine
stuck on the Hawaiian Islands,
the President said began at 1:20
Pm. WushlnatOn time on Dec. T.
FEKItDY TOLD
MT. Roosevelt said that at 5 pm,
Washington time that day-three
hours and 40 minutes after the jap
anese attack had started-the jap
ancac minister for foreign affairs
called in u. S. Ambassador Joseph
Grew.
Grow va told, Mr. Roosevelt said,
lhut Emperor HIrOhitU, to whom the
President had sent a laSt-minute
peace appeal on the previous day, SO
greatly desired establishment of
peace in the Pacific and the entire
world that he had instructed the
Japanese government Ito continue
its earnest endeaVorS."
Then Mr. Roosevelt pointed out:
"Japans real reply, however,
lnadc by Japan's war lords and evil
GCntly formulated many days be-
fore. took the form of the attack
which had already been made with
out warning upon our territories
n. various points in the Pacific
WASHINGTON NOTIFIED
The report said Grew was not in
formed of the Japanese reply until
after il had been delivered by jap
;ncse Ambassador Kichisaburo No
mUra TO Secretary of State Cordell
Hull in Washington. Il was given
to Hull one hour after hostilities
haG started.
T Nj Roosevelt told congress that
Tie "barbaric aggression" of Japan
in Manchura in 1881 set the ex-
ample and the pattern for the
| curse soon to be pursued by Italy
and Germany in Africa and in
+ Lurope.
Through the Years which follow
Cd Germany, Italy. and Japan
reached an understanding to time
their acts of aggression to their
common Northumberland to bring
about the ultimate pnslavement Of
ne rest Of the world" the President
said.
TREATIES REVIEWED
Mr. Roosevelt reviewed agree
mcnt5 between the American and
japanese governments dating back
to the start of the goth century
agreements in which the govern
/ mcntS promised to support the in
dependence and the integrity Of
China" free and peaceful develop
ment CI their commerce in the Pa
cific ocean. and the maintenance
OF the existing status quo" in the
Pacific.
He reviewed this COuntry'S sup
port of the League of Nations in
attempting to disSuade Japan from
its conquest in China in the early
!530'S. But Japan. he said. accepted
the German thesis Cf racial superb
GRITTY and extreme natiOnalism.
Japan iii 1887 announced that
the seventy or eighty million jap
aneSc people were also superior to
the seven or eight hundred million
other inhabitants of the Orient
nearly all of whom were infinitely
O,Ger and more developed in culture
and civilization than themselves
CONCEIT FLAXED
Their conCcit would make them
masters Of a region containing al
most onc-half the population of the
earth, Mr.. Roosevelt said of the
J2pan2Sc. 1T would give them COM
pietc control of vast sea lanes and
trade routes of importance to the
entire world"
He said the result of Japan's lat
est aggression, directed first at the
United States, has been the declara-
lion of war against Japan by Amer
ic& and II other nations.