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Show Between The Batilefronts At war .with Japan, Germiany and Ita.ry, the United: States is menaced in the Pacific by the Japanese fleet. The only reason ithis oountry is not threatened in the Atlantic by the German and Italian! fleets is that, ait this time. Great Britain Bri-tain i; also at war with Germany and Italy. In the present (war, he United States occupies a position po-sition beiiAeen the two battle-fronts. battle-fronts. Strangely enough, rthe first direct attack, upon our soil, in Alaskia, came from Asia land .mot from' Europe. For many decades, tlhe people of the United States have stubbornly stub-bornly clung to a conviction1 hat Japan wouldi n'ver attack us. The Japs we believed, iwere "too smart" ito ri (k an all-out struggle with this 'great and powerful pow-erful republic. What we forged is that the disarmamenit treaties permitted Japan to build up a Navy, in the ratio cf thre;-to-five. Wlhile Iwe r'ood s'ill, chanting about peace, f'he Japs built a ifeet. When 'hey reached the limits of a treaty, they calmly abrogated the pact andi accelerated their preparations for war. |