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Show Attacking Russia In Alaska? Japan's attack om the Aleutian I.lands may represent (1) a iface-savinig iface-savinig extpedition; (2) ani effort to secure a base for further ad-vanoes ad-vanoes against the United States; or (3) an attempt to lock a back door before attacking the Russians Rus-sians in Siberia. It is surprising hoi,v many officials of-ficials and 'writers jump to the conclusion that 'the occupation of Aleutian territory has no oohinec-tion oohinec-tion with' an atteimpt to attack the United States. The general line is that the Japanese move is connected with an attack upon Siberia! This may turn out to be the case, but the safest assumption fior ius to make is that the occupation occupa-tion of Aleutian territory, which places the enemy many hundreds of miles closer to Alaska amdi the West Coast, is the initial stage of an offensive staged against us. Obviously, occupation of a number of Aleutian Islands would be of strategic importance to Japan Ja-pan in any campaign, directed against the United States. There is little use for us to go as far as j Siberia to find a (modve for the ; attack. I |