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Show "Step By Step" Secretary of State Cordell Hull recently called attention to the eleventh anniversary of the so-called so-called Mukden Incident, which preceded the Japanese attack on Manchuria. The first step in Japanese aggression ag-gression occurred on September 18, 1931, and, as the Secretary of State says, "The course of aggression ag-gression there embarked upon was followed by successive aggressions ag-gressions in Asia, Africa and E-urope, E-urope, and has led, step by step, to the present world conflict." What the eminent Secretary of State says is now recognized by most Americans. Nevertheless, it took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to convince many of us that there was a connection between Japanese aggression in the Far East and Axis aggression in Europe. The clincher was the fact that when Japan attacked the United States, Germany and Italy immediately im-mediately declared war upon this country. That the two powers pow-ers had a full understanding to this effect is evidence enough of a conspiracy against the United States. It proves, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that our naval strategists stra-tegists were right when, in 1939, they made public tables showing the relative naval strength of the United States as contrasted with the combined naval strength of Germany, Italy and Japan. |