| Show I NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Shall U. S. Do the or Shall It Be Supply Invasion Fear in Hawaii After Pearl Harbor Attack Bell Syndicate There is raging in Washington today the same controversy precisely that raged back in 1917 whether we should be the arsenal of or do the fighting The pros and cons are so little different as to be though actually the situations are as different as day and The problem as was whether we would be content to raise only a comparatively small and devote the major part of our energy to equipping and feeding the soldiers of the or whether we should devote a larger percentage of our energy to raising our own and equipping But it is not to this 1910 crisis that the present is It is to the earlier when all Britain and France thought they wanted was plenty of planes and tills country never did equip its own or supply the Allies with or though we did eventually send plenty of Our own troops were equipped with artillery already manufactured by the and the war ended without substantial delivery of American-made U. S. Now Doing Both This time we are doing both-sending men and equipment for our The argument is as to the as has been pointed ut on Capitol we cannot raise an army of the size which the army chiefs and Secretary of War Stimson have been talking about if we are also to continue supplying the Allies with equipment That becomes just too large a The question is also asked where we could possibly use an army of from 7 to 15 million to give the two extremes cited by high army Would it not be critics to content ourselves with a much smaller say about the size we trained in the last war-four million men and devote the remainder of our military production to keeping our Allies That is such a sound question that the writer has not heard a satisfactory answer to it from the advocates of a much larger Sneak Or an Armada Onslaught Now that the whole story of Pearl Harbor has been told by the several interesting features may be discussed which up until that official report were There was very real fear of invasion of the Hawaiian Islands by the Japanese for months after Pearl One of the clearest signs of this was that all U. S. currency in the islands was plainly stamped with the word The idea behind this was that if the Japanese succeeded in capturing the islands they would not be able to use the American currency so confiscated in any neutral There were two schools of thought about this much-feared invasion of the One was that it would be accomplished by a huge naval and expeditionary the way having been opened by the wiping out of so much U. naval and air The second was that a very small sneak landing party could accomplish the trick with the co-operation of the Japanese living on the This last was probably much the more because considerably more than a majority of all the people on the islands are In fact the Japanese born on the islands have for some years had a clear majority over all other elements of the But it was the armada type of invasion which our military experts This fear caused the rigid censorship to conceal the extent of our in the opinion of non-official the Japanese DID know almost precisely the extent of the damage they had inflicted on the U. S. fleet and air Looking back at tho Japanese one glaring error stands They claimed to have sunk an airplane In they named Everybody interested in or in navy circles everywhere for that has known since within a week after Pearl Harbor lust why the Japanese made this But the information could not be good story as It because most of us then believed the Japs did not know how much harm they had and further because if the Japs had been SURE this carrier had escaped they might have pursued and destroyed The fact is that the carrier In question HAD been moored to a buoy in Pearl Harbor up to within 48 hours of the The ship that was moored to that same buoy at the time of the raid was the old battleship long used as a The Japs DID sink the i |
