The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-12-30
WHAT WILL WIN THE WAR?

'On what outstanding reason 40 you
base your belief that the Allied Nations will
win the war;"
Here is The Citizen reply:
This is q war of machines. ManpOwer
is essential, but, given the manpower, the
side that is able to turn out the most ma
chimes will win the war, provided that side
is capable of using the machines effective
ly.
Nobody will deny that the Germans
how to use their implements of war,
yetenobody will deny, either, that the Am
orleans and the English are just as capable
users as are the Germans. The fact is, we
believe that the Americans have a slight
edge on both the British and the Germans
in the employment of death-dealing Weap-
OnS.
The British and the Germans are what
may be called precisive pluggers, but they
are not whit more precise than are the
Americans and they lack one essential thing
that is characteristic of us. The best word
in our language to describe that term is a
slang word-PEP
Both the Germans and the English
have the spirit to do but. we not only have
the spirit todo: wealso' have pep which is a
component part of that spirit AID pep
adds initiative ands sWiftness to ourareadi-
ness to do. The Japs, too, have the spirit
to do but they lack the accelerating pep, as
has been demonstrated time and again, iE
every clash they have had with the Ameri-
cans in the Southwest Pacific. At Midway,
in the Coral Sea, in the SolOmOns, before the
Japs got started, the Americans were Oh
their way. 1t is that same pep that result
ed in our cOuntrys becoming easy victors
at every one of the Olympic Games that
were held quadrennially up to the time they
were stopped by the war.
The Japs and the Germans and our AL
lies, the British, have striking power, as We
also have, but any fair-minded man will adj
nit we are able to beat any of them ito the
gun" In other words, we are off before
they start.
That quality has been outstanding i'll
all our clashes with the Japs. They have
been pitifully slow; we have left them flat
footed in every set-to.
The Japs, in their advance on the Ma
lay Peninsula toward Singapore, made sue
cessful night raids on the British positions
and succeeded, over and over; 800 Japs at
tempted night raid on the positions of the
United States Marines on Guadalcanal, and
all but 35 Japs were slain. The Marines
beat them to the jump; something the Eng
lsh were unable to do in the Malay fight
ing. The same thing has happened in the
battles that have been fought at New Gui-
nea between the Japs and the Americans,
whose quick-thinking, an essential of pep,
invariably outwitted the Nipponese.
The Germans are far more scientific
than the Japs, but there is little to choose
between those races in the time it takes to
evolve thought. In that regard the Ger
mans are just as far back of the Americans
IS are the Japs. g~~~.rwxgxx
NoWsthen, we come bacltto machines.
with which theSwar will be won. :. The Am
orleans. gan USE them more efficiently than
the JapSafid as efficiently as the Germans,
with the added advantage of pep-t that
quality which requires split-second action
So here's the lineup in the production OF
machines Of war:
The United States at present is produc-
ing as many as all the Axis powers combin-
ed; with our Allies, the production is one
third greater. BY the the end of 1913, the
United States alone will be turning out twice
as many implements of war, in most cases,
superior implements, as all the Axis powers
combined, and we and our Allies will pro-
duce three times as many next year as the
AXIS powersS
ia There can be but one result: the Unit
Civilizations Ultimately will crush the. Axis
powers. eA
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