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Show MAPS IN CONTROL OF ISLAND BASES Few Americans realize, up to this time, the vast importance of the Marshall and Caroline Islands, which Japan acquired under mandate man-date after the first World War. These islands have been developed into air and naval bases, so that1 the Japs proclaim that they have, 2,000 unsinkable aircraft carriers. The world was given some notice no-tice of what Japan was undertaking undertak-ing a number of years' ago. The Japs, despite treaty regulations, promptly closed the islands to the outside world. The United States, along with Great Britain and France, let the matter go. This was a great mistake. If kwe had insisted upon our rights, we would have discovered what is plain today. The Japanese campaign cam-paign in the Far East would have been hamstrung. Why didn't we? The answer, truthful and frank, is that our government was under the control of pacifist interests, willing to yield almost anything to avoid "offending" the Japs. 1 |