Show I i y America Can Be Licked That's not a slogan thought up by this hysterical alarmist Its It's a quote from Adm William M. M Standley new ambassador to Russia It makes him an hysterical alarmist too which ought to m make him a useful useful use- use ful rol m man to the New York had to have the war dumped on the doorstep doorstep doorstep door door- step before it ft realized the tile shooting had started The burning of the Nor Nor- mandic mandie woke the New Yorkers up They let out the usual yell for scalps but that was better th than no yelling at all The They began to wonder vonder vonder von von- der what was going on Well what was Lethargy's another of our crimes Admiral Standley W warns I Have Ha a look at the country away from rom the coasts and you'll agree The big idea there is The bombers cant can't reach us To them the only part of the USA U.S.A. at war Is the tile part in danger of If invasion What makes those ostriches think the Nazis or Japs will hug the be beaches They love to travel The finders fault-finders who keep hollering hollering- that we dont don't know enough about Pearl Harbor dont don't even listen when you mention mention mention men men- tion what the navy did later lahr at nt atthe atthe the Gilbert and Marshall Islands is islands islands is- is lands strait and Java That Isn't the kind of news they like to monger I I IThe Man lan About New Y York o k The United States did not create the pioneer spirit the pioneer spirit created the United States States- That spirit has never failed our people It W was in the pits gun-pits at Gettysburg Gettysburg Gettysburg Gettys Gettys- burg it was in the trenches in France and it Is in the foxholes of the Philippines Buy Buy Defense Bonds Bonds- The world picture is black today but it was black in 1778 when Philadelphia Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia and New York were in the hands of an enemy It was blacker till Mill when the capital was burned In 1814 There were only Americans Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans then But they taught Europe that though it U could invade American Ameri Amen can territory it could never invade the American Spirit that their artillery artillery artillery ar ar- tillery could crack an American fort but never the unity of the Republic The American people have won every every every ev ev- ery war because they have continued continued continued contin contin- to fight the enemy not to question question ques ques- tion Uon their own leadership Five million million million mil mil- lion Americans stood off the world because deep defeat could not divide divide divide di di- vide them That tradition Is worth more than all the gold In Fort Knox Our schools can truthfully teach that there were no hoarders at Valley Forge Forge and and the captain of the U U. 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S Constitution never had to ration Loyalty Today the tides of Manila Bay are ebbing and flowing but not the patriotism patriotism patriotism pa pa- of the surrounded Ameri Amen cans Tokyo hopes they will soon run out of ammunition Because even Tokyo admits that MacArthurs MacArthur's II men will never run out of courage Buy Bay Defense Bonds Bonds- The stiletto mob didn't waste a second hopping on the RAF when the e Nazzy ships slid through Dover strait All right it was a blow that hurt Hitler got his ships home But who tied them up for months The RAF Who fought off oft the invasion of England and changed Germanys Germany's whole plan atthe of at the war The Huns are on the Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian front today taking a bloody beating because the RAF sent them there But one setback in supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed tl to rub out all their glories The toughest outfit of the war with a record full of glory is being crucified crucified cruci cruel fied fled for losing one skirmish The Idea is not being promoted here however that everybody has to shut up Blunders must not be excused or inefficiency and plundering con con- The chief thing is to notice notice notice no no- tice who's doing the loudest yelling and check back on his record Lots Lotsof of the mouthpieces arent aren't speaking I In Americas America's interest You dont don't have to be slant eyed to be a good Jap or to have an accent to deliver a message from Berlin Sure America America America Amer Amer- ica can be licked But dont don't lets let's lick ourselves This little anecdote about a prime minister and a reporter tells more about the stupid sighted short-sighted thinkIng thinkIng thinking think think- ing that was almost fatal to democracies democracies democracies than all the intellectual essays essays essays es es- es- es says ever written Stanley Baldwin Baldwin Bald Bald- win told a reporter I want it tobe to tobe tobe be said of me that I never sent a single Englishman to die on a foreign foreign for for- Prime eign battlefield But Minister he was reminded dont you see you are piling up trouble that tha t will kill a million Englishmen In the next war That said Baldwin calmly is a problem for my successor Buy r-Buy Defense Bonds- Bonds Book publishers are cutting one one- on eighth of an inch on tomes already to conserve paper The best book publishers five are st standardizing standardizing standard standard- izing zing the jackets on non fiction A Los Angeles lawyer has complained complained complained com com- to authorities that Japs are using spot announcements on West coast powered high stations to relay code messages to Tokyo The N. N N Y Times is prepared for an anair anair anair air r raid In its annex lobby where the paper is printed theres there's a Disaster Disaster Disaster Dis Dis- aster Wagon equipped with helmets first aid kits etc |