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Show WARNS JAPAN WE CAN FIQHT California Senator Discusses Japanese Question Freely and Frankly. Washington. Discussing the Japanese Japan-ese question freely nnd frankly In a carefully prepared address delivered Thursday In tho house, Bepresentn-tivo Bepresentn-tivo Kahn, California, chairman of the military committee, declared that America hoped always to avoid war, and that If "the statesmen, the pub licists nnd the politicians, tho ambassadors ambas-sadors and the demagogues of Japan" really wanted war with the United States, they would be tho ones to bring It on nnd not the Americans. Mr. Knhn said he knew thnl ho voiced the earnest hope and the wish of every patriotic American that peace between the two countries may continue con-tinue perpetually. "But the world," said ho, "1ms only recently learned that we are not too proud to fight; nor nre we afraid to fight when wo are forced Into war." |
