The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-16
Japan Used Submarines Alonq
With Planes in Hawaii Raid
President Gives War Background
In Message to Notions Leoders

accepted the German thesis Of
racial superiority and extreme
nstionalism.
Japan in 1887 announced that
the seventy or eighty million
Japanese people were also superior
10 the seven or eight hundred mil
lion other inhabitants Of the
orient-nesriy all Of whom were
infinitely older and more de-
veloped In culture and civilization
than themselves.
Their conceit would make
them masters Of . region con-
tanning almost one-han the
population Of the EARTH" Mr..
Roosevelt said of the Japan
ese. 1T would give them COM
p,ete control Of vast SEA
lanes and trade routes Of Inn
portance 10 the entire world"
He said the result of Japan's
latest aggression. directed first at
the United States. has been the
declaration of war against Japan
by American and II other ma
tons. He called the roll Of the
countries winch have joined in
fighting the Japanese.
FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
These and other peace-loving
countries will be fighting as are
we, first, TO put an end to Japan's
program Of aggression and. sec
ond. TO make good the right of
nations and Of mankind 10 live In
peaoe under condhtions OF security
and justice" he said.
The people Of this country are
totally united In Their determine
ton to consecrate our national
strength and manpower TO bring
conciusively to an end the pesti-
lence of aggression and force
which has hong menaced the world
and which now has struck de-
hberately and directly at the
safety of the United States"
The prcsident told how Jap
anese military operations In
China late In the last decade
"fiagrantly disrcgarded Amer
lean rights," ~ well a. ''in-
flicttng incalculable damage
upon China, and CHASTITY sur
fering on the Chinese people"
He listed American nationals
killed or wounded by Japanese
forces In China since July 7, 1887,
and American property damaged,
destroyed or seriously endangered
by Japanese attacks on China.
THREE TIED IN
Throughout the message the re-
cital of German and Italian ''un-
limited conquest" was interviewer
with details of Japanese aggres-
sion to prove that the three men,
bers of the axis had followed the
same pattern of aggression.
AS the forces Of Germany,
Italy and Japan increasingly COM
bined their efforts" Mr.. Roosevelt
said. he was convinced that this
com bination would ultimately at
tack the United States and the
western hemisphere-if 1t were
successful in the other continents"
He said this foreboding was borne
out by the tri-partite alliance.
The strategy Of Japan In
the Pacific area was q faithful
counterpart Of that used by
Hitler In Europe" he said.
he reviewed how japan, pursu-
ing her policy of conquest. first
worked her way into Manchuria,
then China, then 1ndo-China. To-
day. he said. this conquest policy
has been extended throughout
Thailand and is aimed next toward
Malaga and Burma.
NEXT ON TIMETABLE
The Philippines. Borneo. Suma-
ira, Java come next on the Japan
csc timetable. and II is probable
that further down the Japanese
page are the names of Australia,
New Zealand and all the other
islands of the Pacific - including
Hawaii and the great chain Of the
Aleutian islands" he said.
japanese aggression, he contin-
ued. made it necessary for many
countries to keep large defensive
armed forces and a vast amount of
material in the Pscific-forces and
material which might otherwise
have been used against Hitler"
That. of course, IL exactly
what Hitler wanted them to
do" he added.
The president reviewed this
years conversations between the
United States and Japan. This
government. he said. steadfastly
demanded that relations in the
Pacific should be governed by the
principle of territorial integrity,
non-interference in internal affairs.
equality of commercial opportunity
and treatment and reliance upon
peaceful international cooperation
TO settle controversies.
JAPAN DESIGNS GREEDY
II became evident. however. that
Japan did not intend TO modify
in any way her greedy designs