| Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Entire World Is Thrust Into Battle I As Democracies Unite to Fight Axis After Germany and Italy Join Japan In Declaring War on United States NOTE When opinions are expressed In and not of ar of by Western Newspaper I Around the World Germany and Italy were only four days behind Japan In declaring war on the United States but j Washington was even faster in Its reply to the Berlin-Rome challenge than to that given For on the very same within a few hours after Hitler and Mussolini had announced their nations at war with the United congress heard the President's new war message and passed without a dissenting vote formal recognition that a state of war Congress followed this declaration of war with a swift and unanimous vote authorizing and the National Guard to be sent anywhere In the world and likewise extending their terms of service for the war's When the formalities were over and the United States found itself at war It meant the real beginning of the second war of the Twentieth For the conflict has now spread to six continents of the Disaster First The war with which had completed the missing parts of a true World started on a note of disaster at Following her age-old of the Japanese had struck viciously and with force at six major points of American tenure in the Pacific while her envoys of peace were still In communication with the American state Her answer to President Roosevelt's last-minute plea for peace in the Pacific had been to swoop down out of leaden skies on a Sabbath dawn and deal death and destruction to Pearl the United States' mid-Pacific The government declined to give full details of what happened other than to say that the were killed and about the same number and the was though A. Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell commander of a battleship of the Pacific fleet was the first high ranking officer of the navy to be reported killed In action during the Japanese attack on Pearl definite losses consisted of one battleship capsized and a destroyer sent to the President Roosevelt went to the nation with an address in which he explained that the government had been unwilling to give out all the details until It was sure that the Japanese knew hinting that to do so would and comfort the This did not minimize fears that the disaster at Pearl Harbor was a major At the same time the Japanese launched a strong attack on the also on the British In Malaya and in the waters around The Japanese were apparently and reckless of their deployment of fleet and In one period following the war's beginning the U. S. announced the sinking of a Japanese the serious crippling of another and the sinking of one cruiser and one This was the first American answer to the Pearl Harbor surprise A report also from Manila indicated that in the first surface clash between the two fleets the Japanese were forced to flee under the cover of darkness and this battle ended But the main reaction was a desire to hear of a however the people were anxious to receive news of action on the part of American j Yet there was much of this In the i background of and many tales of heroism and American cess came from the Manila There were those observers j who saw In the fact that the anese did not immediately follow up the attack on Pearl Harbor evidence that punitive work on the part of the United States navy had been prompt and New Fever Evidence that the Pacific coast could not consider itself safe at all from air and that even inland points or the Atlantic coast might be attacked was seen in a triple appearance of Japanese planes over the Golden reports that others were seen ofT lower California and the coast of and other unverified Chief reaction to these warnings was the realization on the part of the people of their utter for anything of this There was little evident inclination to panic This air raid warden Edgar Lee Commander of a New York American Legion is shown as he phoned an alarm from New York City's Empire State building observation post that lie had spotted two He phoned his alarm to to put aviation fields on the alert and to warn the civilian and but rather a reckless disregard of the dangers of being San though the planes were actually over the harbor went through a half-hearted and the co-operation was so spotty that the defense chiefs were outraged and railed at the one actually saying It would have been better if the planes had gotten through and dropped their Perhaps the best evidence of came from New where a simple query about a rumor of a plane sighted out to sea bounced back and forth until nearly planes at Mitchel field took off and criss-crossed the approaches to New and a goodly portion of New England's war production industries evacuated with considerable loss to The originator of it all turned out to be an identifiable civilian who was absolved of all New realizing how tenuous its preparedness proceeded to carry through a program of test warnings designed to get the machinery in Winter The costliest failure in the history of human warfare was the decision of Germany abandon the central and northern Russian campaigns for the Berlin frankly admitted that the weather had gotten the best of and that there would be no further attempts to advance until Men were unable to fight in those low said the Nazi high and fuel oils and were ruined by freezing halting the mechanized The Russians calmly announced that the Germans had lost men In the and went on Town after village after village had been and there was no apparent diminution of the scale of the Russian effort If the Nazis planned to and simply cease the war of movement during the cold It was evident that the Russians aimed to make this policy even more costly to the Important had been the report of the capture of vital communication center miles east of a city so closely menaced by the Nazis only a short time Aims Increase President Roosevelt had stressed the need of war and indicated that he would demand that all industries go on a seven-day There were some minor reports of labor but the outbreak of war had stamped most of these and more reluctant to give up their were facing popular and difficulties within their own United First and most salutary reaction of the attack by Japan on the United States and the subsequent declaration of war by a practically unanimous congress was the vanishing of all and the unity of the people as to our war President Roosevelt's speech in which he outlined the U. aims as in war and victory in met with universal even from those who had been his sternest The President was firm in aligning Germany and Italy inseparably with solemnly warned the people to be ready for a long and difficult and for reverses at the To all this most thoughtful persons and from America and all other isolationist and non-interventionist groups came an outburst of willingness to serve and a general all-out reversal of their former In this spirit joined Wheeler and the and Representative Fish of New York said he was going to offer his services to the armed forces as he did in the last Climb Aboard as a was swift to rally around the American and though there were exceptions as to a whole-hearted declaration of even these nations assured the United States that they were with us at Mexico made arrangements to rush her troops around through American territory into Lower California to present a defense front there against a possible Japanese land Costa Rica and others went the way In support of this and which said she would remain declared she would consider this country a thus permitting us to refuel or repair war vessels in her ports without time The Pan-American Republics decided it would be a good thing for all the foreign ministers to meet and to map out a united front for this hemisphere against the enemy To the north its West coast sandwiched in between the United States and girded itself for the the United Kingdom having followed this country promptly with a declaration of war against President Roosevelt truly pointed out that of the people of the world are on our and in this hemisphere the done during the past year and a half was bearing From War Fronts Mexico President Avila Ca macho urged mat Mexico increase production as far as stressing that as the best way in which the nation could help the United Congress had set in motion a bill providing for the sending of an American Expeditionary Force to the Far East for immediate The it was might reduce the draft limit from 21 to New marine corps and coast guard enlistments were at new highs following war the services in one and Pan-American airways officials said their forces of 20 persons on Wake island had been successfully and had been brought The capital of Slam was taken over by the Japanese following the announcement that no resistance was to be offered to the The army planned no cancellation of Christmas leaves for despite the fact that the nation was at All were due back from their furloughs by January |
