Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-01-06


| The response of the American
people has been instantaneous. 1t
will be sustained until our security is
| assured.
Exactly one year ago today said
to this Congress: when the die
tators are ready to make war upon
us they will not wait for an act of
will choose the time and the place
and the method OF their attack"
We now know their choice of the
time. a peaceful Sunday morning
December 7. 1871.
We know their choice of the place,
an American outpost in the Pacific
We know their choice OF the
method, the method OF Hitler him
self.
Japan's scheme Of conquest goes
back half a century. 1t was not
merely a policy Of seeking living
room, it was a plan which included
the subjugation of all the peoples in
the Far East and In the islands of
the Pacific. and the domination of
that ocean by Japanese military and
naval control of the western coasts
of North, Central and South Amer
lea.
Hitler's Program Envisages
Dominat ion Of Entire World.
The development Of this ambitious
conspiracy was marked by the war
against China in 1894; the subse-
quent occupation Of Korea: the war
against Russia in 1904; the illegal
fertilization OF the inundated Pa
cific islands following 1920; the
seizure Of Manchuria in 1881, and
the invasion of China in 1887.
A similar policy of criminal con-
quest was adopted by Italy. The
Fascists first revealed their imperial
designs in Libya and Tripoli. In
1885 they seized Abyssinia. Their
goal was the domination Of all North
Africa. Egypt, parts of France, and
the entire Mediterranean world.
But the dreams of empire of the
Japanese and Fascist leaders were
modest in comparison with the
gargantuan aspirations of Hitler and
his NaZis. Even before they came
to power In 1888. their plans for con-
quest had been drawn Those plans
provided for ultimate domination,
not Of any one section Of the world,
but of the whole earth and all the
oceans on it.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Failed In Its Purpose.
With Hitler's formation of the
Berlin Rome Toxic alliance. all
these plans of conquest became a
single plan. Under this. in addition
to her own schemes Of conquest,
Japan's role was to cut of our supply
OF weapons OF war to Britain, Russia
and China-weapons which increas-
ingly were speeding the day of
Hltler's doom. The act of Japan at
Pearl Harbor was intended to stun
us-to terrify us to such an extent
that We would divert our industrial
and military strength to the Pacific
area. or even to our own continental
defense.
The plan failed in its purpose. We
have not been stunned. We have
not been terrified or confused. This
reassembling of the Seventy-seventh
Congress is proof of that: for the
mood of quiet, grim resolution which
here prevails bodies ill for those who
conspired and elaborated to MUIR
der world peace
That mood is stronger than any
mere desire for revenge. 1t expresses
the will of the American people to
make very certain that the world
will never so suffer again.
Admittedly. we have been faced
with hard choices. 1t was bitter. for
example, not to be able to relieve
the heroic and historic defenders of
Wake Island. 1t was bitter for us
not to be able to land a million men
and thousand ships in the Philip
pine Islands.
United Nations Efforts
Now Being Consolidated.
But this adds only to our deter.
mination to see to it that the Stars
and Stripes will fly again over Wake
and Guam: and that the brave peo-
pie of the Philippines will be rid Of
japanese imperialism; and will live
in freedom, security and independ-
ence.
Powerful and offensive actions
must and will be taken in proper
time. The consolidation of the
United Nations total war effort
against our common enemies is being
achieved.
That is the purpose of conferences
which have been held during the