Show Weve We've Outsmarted Them NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER propagandists in Italy and Germany Germany Ger Ger- 1 1 many are leveling their biggest rhetorical guns on us as the result of final congressional approval of the lend lease-lend program for out all aid to Britain Rome newspapers warn us that our action may soon Involve us in conflict in both the Atlantic and the Pacific The fascists hint that Japan will soon move in the far east against this country Berlin official spokesmen say the forthcomIng forthcoming forthcoming ing visit of the Japanese foreign minister to Berlin is a part of an axis campaign to counter our aid to Britain They too hint darkly of Impending Japanese activity in the Pacific Its It's all our fault is the tenor of this axis propaganda Weve We've asked for trouble by pledging ing aid to Britain and now were we're going to get it from both sides at once Were We're a little tired of all this talk and arid bluster bluster bluster blus blus- ter from the axis bandits Who started all this two ocean war threat business anyway Who formed an alliance directed solely against us Who's been promising all along that the decadent decadent decadent deca dent democracies of the world were doomed and that weak and soft America was head headed d for the junk heap along with France and Britain Britain Brit Brit- am ain Did Germany Italy and Japan expect we were going to take all this animosity and this open preparation for the task of cutting our throats lying down Did they think we would be frightened by their threats Did they expect expect expect ex ex- ex- ex we would be so deceived by the olive branch th thy they held in one hand that we wouldn't see the dagger danger held in the other Did they really believe we would be so foolish as to sit quietly on the sidelines until the axis powers having crushed all our potential allies finally got around to us Did they Yes they most certainly did That's why they're angry That's why they're chattering their threats They thought wed we'd be as foolish as the rest of their victim nations They thought wed we'd wait our turn just as Austria and Czechoslovakia and Poland waited their turns rather than joining joinIng joining join join- ing forces against the menace while there was still time as Norway and Denmark and Sweden waited as Holland and Belgium waited as fj c Hungary Rumania Bulgaria and Yugoslavia waited They thought we were weak and soft and dumb Well weve we've fooled them Weve We've outsmarted them in Inthe the war of nerves and propaganda and deception just as well we'll outsmart them In the war of planes and tanks and ships And they dont don't like it not it-not not a bit They're worried and uncertain That's why they're blustering blustering blus blus- and threatening |