Show economic highlights everyone must realize by now that the japanese american war is not an isolated conflict in the pacific without bearing on the wars that are aie going on elsewhere in the world when the japanese stacked attacked oahu bahu without warnings they wore were simply carrying out their part of a tremendous plan tor for world domination that in all likelihood was framed in berlin the amazing efficiency with which the jap blitzkrieg was da livered vered ll suggests a german high command influence japans war leaders have never been famous tor for surprise and subtlety the no germans on the other hand have proven themselves masters of strategy and it Is very probable that german staff officers had much to do with laying out the pattern of attack As the president has said this war Is primarily a war against nazism and everything eveia thing else Is incidental to that the reasons for germany doing everything in her hei power to provoke an ameri can japanese war are clear first actual american involvement in a major shooting war will mean that tor for the time be ing at least american lend lease leam aid to the allies will be reduced lt it in may ay also be necessary tor for both america and britain to transfer naval strength from tho the atlantic to the pacific second if japan can succeed in her drive to isolate this country from the par far east the axis axi 9 powers will have control of immense quantities of vital war materials of which oil Is the most important P for or example the dutch rulers of rich batavia Ba tavla are putting up a tine fine tight fight but they simply the manpower the ships or the equi equipment ament to fight on alone their forces act as adjuncts of british american forces it if british american powel powei were destroyed in the far east the dutch would be through it has long been said that this country should be able to defee defeat it japan in a very brief period of time that might be true it if it were possible to concentrate all american fighting force and production capacity on the prosecution of a pacific war but we must maintain an atlantic fleet of considerable size to help the british in combating the U boat menace and the president has said aid that aid to our allies will continue even though it may be temporarily on a reduced scale it la is known that japan has baa tor for years built up reserves of war materials some think that she has enough on hand to last tor for a full years all out fighting the japanese aro are fanatical fighters and their samurai tradition holds that a man who dies in battle will go to an asiatic valhalla in which all Is milk and honey therefore it Is only the part of wisdom tor for this county to expect a long war a war in which there will be serious reverses no less than great victor lea the loss of one american and two british battles battleships bips aiding with a number of lesser war cratt 1 is admittedly serious but it Is by no means fatal as the ger man italian japanese radio networks are ara saying our fleet alone Is much larger than the japanese and it Is said to have greater fire ire power speed and armor judged on a phlp tor ship basis the combined american and british fleets outnumber the tha japanese fleet by more thas two tor for one however both britain and the U S must keep major naval units it elsewhere while japan has her entire force in the pacific and this of course materially cuts down our naval supremacy in the long run most authorities think this will come down to a 9 war of resources a war of oil production steel capacity etc here our edge over economically poor japan Is tremendous but even it japan should collapse hitler with all the resources of europe will rema inAnd the de att action of hitlerism is the announced bounced noun ced goal of all the allies none think that can be done easily in the meantime the allies have much to be cheerful about the russians have done apparently impossible in not only holding off the german legions but in actually forcing them into a major retreat the british campaign in africa glea ahead and while german resistance la Is stubborn it Is steadily lessening the italians seem to le have practically given up BO far as aggressive agar essco lighting Is concerned conce ined and in the th pacific the U S army arms navy navy and and air force are living up to the finest traditions of american arms the democracies which hitler used to say were soft decadent and incapable of fighting effective ette cAlve war are showing shoving the lion iron which Is inside them the hull program af american solidarity Is bearl bearing ng tine fine fruit now the white haired gentleman from tennessee ought fought tor for it during years in which many were bored with and uninterested in lour neighbors to the south today every america republic seems firmly attached to an anti axis front and many have declared war along with us the latin american nations nation have no strong military power their navies and air forces are small and generally obsolete but they have bremen tremendous ous economic c resources which the big fighting powers can use and it if necessary they can supply vast numbers of men for military service their support Is of great importance to us and to britain |