Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-12-15 | Page 8 | There Will be a First Time

Y There Will ViII Be a First Time TimeT 1 c T UTAH'S Representative Granger warns us in ina a statement issued at Washington that Japan will vitI not be a push He predicts It will be a long hard war The American people have already learned the truth of the first statement and they are r coming to the sober realization that the second second sect sec sec- t ond and is very likely to prove true This war is not going to be any picnic picnic picnic- and it may well be worse before it gets better S It may yet strike much closer to home than it has thus far However in the long run it isn't going to tobe tobe be any picnic for Japan either The United States of America for all its lack of preparation preparation preparation tion and apparent offensive and defensive weakness isn't any push over The he American people can take it lick it-lick lick their wounds wounds and and give it back We dont don't know what it is to be defeated in a war And we arent aren't going to find out now Were We're confident of that as a people However long it takes however hard the going we are going to win this war in inthe inthe inthe the end There is a seeming impasse in the attitude of the American people and the attitude of the Japanese The Japanese minister to Mexico voiced the Japanese view when he pointed out that Japan has never lost a war since the beginning of the empire that the Japanese nation was was united and determined to fight it out and confident of or final victory That Japanese attitude and this this' apparent impasse however only serves to impress more forcibly on the United States the necessity for supreme effort effort for greater courage greater determination and greater staying qualities than the Japanese This is a war between n two proud determined and confident nations neither of which has ever lost a war warin warin warin in its history There is going to be a first time for one or the other And it wont won't be the United States of America