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who, despite all their aping of American and European culture and ways, have
never progressed mentally or spiritually beyond the jungles whose instincts
they typify so well.

America'9 fighting men served notice that they are through seeing Amer-
ican rights and persons violated; through with that phase of the war where
Japan could walk in and seize whatever she would, because America was not
prepared to say her 'Nay'.

When valiant American Marines, out to avenge their comrades of Wake
Island, established their first beach head at Tulagi, they let the warlords of
Nippon know that they were on their way back - to the Philippines, to Java,
to Singapore and Hong Kong, enroute to Tokyo! General Doolittle and his
flying ambassador of American vengeance had set the pace, the calling cards
they left in Tokyo will be followed - slowly, perhaps, but surely, by a vast
army, bent on preventing a recurrence of treachery and violence against
American rights and possession in the Far East.

America is under way with full vigor now on another vast front, too -
in Europe, with thorough knowledge, let it be added, of what operations this
will entail. How costly that front will prove is well understood. In material
wealth, as represented by bombers and fighting planes, tanks and arms and
supplies; and in manpower, the cost will be so high as to seem prohibitive-
until one looks at Poland and Belgium and Greece, at devastated Russia, and
at the other unfortunate countries that have surrendered not only their
materials possessions!, but their priceless possession of freedom and national
integrity. To escape their fate, no cost could be too high!

The setbacks in Russia are a blow at the very vitals of the United Nations.
But even if worse disasters' occur - if Rommel does achieve what he threatens,
and takes the Suez Canal; if Germany succeeds in immobilizing the Russian
Armies before winter descends, so that countless German divisons may be
shifted to other fronts - no matter what may befall, there can be no question
in any sane person's mind but that the fight must go on, and on and on, until
not only Hitler, but the false theories he embodies, are uprooted and dispersed.

Not until then will it be decent men and women throughout the
world to call a halt on hostilities. Not until then will life be worth living
for many millions of our fellow human beings throughout the world, millions
that now look to America and her Allies as their only salvation from the
living torture of serfdom that is far worse than death.

How many Americans are being massed around Hitler's forces in England,
in Egypt, in the Middle East - is, of course, a military secret of the most pro-
found importance. The announced arrival last week in England however, of
what is described s the largest American convoy to date; and numerous
previous announcements of the same character clearly indicate that important
moves are brewing - that the great masses of men now being assembled in
England's camps will either be used for a mass invasion of Europe when the
time is deemed suitable, or are preparing a bombing program directed against
Germany's industrial transportation and distribution areas that will far sur-
pass anything of this nature the world has ever seen. In either case, Germany
will be put to such a test that she will have full opportunity to understand