The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-16
The GREATER OUR EFFORT. The
SHORTER The WAR, SAYS EAURY

AiAos II Oh1y VI anger dDOul the CdAl
Harbor attack subsidies into steady
effort to produce munitions.
From the Billings Gazette of De
cember 6th-twenty-four hours before
the attack at Pearl Harbor-Senator
Wheeler said 81 am for settling our
troubles with Japan around a peace
| table,"
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
of December 9th-"Maxim Litvinov,
the Russian ambassador, was In Ha-
wall "a hours before the attack on
Pearl Harbor He warned our high
officers there that Japanese attack
on Guam, Wake Island and Pearl Har-
Dor was just around the corner"
Our officers followed Wheeler's ar
guments that had gone on for Is
months preventing an appropriation
of five million dollars to forty Guam.
Our commanders were at a gold-braid
ball in the Royal Hawaiian hotel. The
harbor nettings to protect the fleet
against submarines were not spread
as usual for safety at night. II some
sentry on hill top had been drunk
or gone asleep and let those Japanese
bombers get by unannounced over his
martialed and executed before a week
ended. For years our men in high
places have been AND STILL ARE
agitating to encourage just the con-
duct of those denoted officers at Pearl
Harbor Money was paid them to do
so before we got crippled in the Pa
cific, and money still procures their
aid for our enemies in trying to d.
vide us from our allies.
From Adam Lapin, Washington cor
respondent of New York daily: "The
department of justice is understood
to have evidence in the Hill Chill was
Hamilton Fish's secretary and Vel
reck cases showing that the trail of
nazi funds and connections leads into
the offices of a least four senators
and 20 congressman who have been
prominent in the appeasement move
ment"
In the last issue of the Nation ap-
pears a cleverly put and imposing
news item: Inquiry at Senator
Wheeler's office revealed that the
senator has been absent from Wash
ington since the war commenced, but
if anything important comes up he
will return"
Had we fortified Guam, Midway
Island, and Wake Island, as the Presi-
dent tried to do, and five had been
on the "alert" at Pearl Harbor, our
air forces with these bases would
have destroyed the Japanese conveys
and battleships before they reached
the Philippines or Hawaii.
Father Coughlin with very small
following of sensible Catholics) is
still Illuminating against Russia and
England. The other appeasers, whose
silly or bought speeches have caused |
our present reverses, will spring up |
again to agitate that we make peace |
with dishonor if we have further set
backs. They have no real fear that |
Russia or England will desert u.s. |
Their purpose is to get us to weaken |
and desert our allies. We are prob
ably not going to have any worse luck
than we are in right now. We have
learned our bitter lesson.
The envious, professional Roose-
are not going to get their
slation from seeing his war plans fail.
The pseudo Catholics who (anything
% belittle Roosevelt) try to inject
'eligious intolerance into the Amer
can war-psychology will not persuade
many of us that the Shintoism of Jap
In is preferable to the Orthodox
Church of Russia Too many edu
lated members of every church know
hat the Apostolic Succession Is