Springville Herald | 1942-07-09 | Page 4 | U. S. Menaced by Two Battlefronts

of three-to-five. While we still, chanting about peace Japs built a fleet. When',. reached the limits of a t they calmly abrogated the pact accelerated their preparation,? war. "a lot Strangely enough, the first direct attack, upon our soil, in Alaska, came from Asia and not from Europe. Eu-rope. For many decades, the people of the United States have stubbornly clung to a conviction that Japan would never attack us. The Japs, we believed, were "too smart" to risk an all-out struggle with this great and powerful republic. What we forget is that the disarmament dis-armament treaties permitted Japan Ja-pan to build up a navy, in the ratio U. S. MENACED BY TWO BATTLEFRONTS At war with Japan, Germany, and Italy, the United States is menaced in the Pacific by the Japanese fleet. The only reason this country is not threatened in the Atlantic by the German and Italian fleets is that, at this time, Great Britain is also at war with Germany and Italy. In the present war, the United States occupies a position between the two battlefronts. i .