Show m m m The United States Declares War Congressman W. Moving with unprecedented to answer the Japanese assault upon this nation's Pacific on the day of 1 94 1 voted to declare war on The vote was 82 to 0 in the Senate and to 1 in the The President spoke only 6 minutes and 30 compared with Woodrow Wilson's 29 minutes and 34 Congress approved the resolution in the record time of 33 minutes after President Roosevelt bitterly denounced Japanese And on December 1 94 1 the Congress declared war on the other two axis The Senate acted approving the German resolution recognizing existence of hostilities by a vote of 88 to 0 and the 90 to The House votes were to 0 and to on the German and Italian As with one Congress has proclaimed to the world at large that this war was none of our but since it has we shall see it through to the last resource of our strength in material equipment and in moral The time for debate is over the time to act is Responsibility for the fateful decision has been taken out of our While Japanese diplomacy was pretending to seek Japanese militarism was calmly and carefully preparing the blows that fell on our naval and military Decent young American soldiers and sailors have been shot down by representatives of a nation they had no reason to take for an The roar of bombs exploding on Hawaii and the Philippines has drowned out every cry of partisanship or political strife in the United Today we know but one duty to stand together as Americans under the leadership of our We may be certain that from this point nothing will be permitted to impede American production or to delay for a single moment the full flow of our great strength into this battle for In this hour of every woman and child in the United States should act with quiet strength and a display of national For we know that America CAN WIN and WILL |