![]() ![]() It was bitter for us not to be able to land a million men in a thousand ships in the Philippine Islands.īut this adds only to our determination to see to it that the Stars and Stripes will fly again over Wake and Guam. It was bitter, for example, not to be able to relieve the heroic and historic defenders of Wake Island. It expresses the will of the American people to make very certain that the world will never so suffer again.Īdmittedly, we have been faced with hard choices. That mood is stronger than any mere desire for revenge. This very reassembling of the Seventy-seventh Congress today is proof of that for the mood of quiet, grim resolution which here prevails bodes ill for those who conspired and collaborated to murder world peace. The act of Japan at Pearl Harbor was intended to stun us-to terrify us to such an extent that we would divert our industrial and military strength to the Pacific area, or even to our own continental defense. Under this, in addition to her own schemes of conquest, Japan's role was obviously to cut off our supply of weapons of war to Britain, and Russia and China- weapons which increasingly were speeding the day of Hitler's doom. When Hitler organized his Berlin-Rome-Tokyo alliance, all these plans of conquest became a single plan. ![]() Those plans provided for ultimate domination, not of any one section of the world, but of the whole earth and all the oceans on it. Even before they came to power in 1933, their plans for that conquest had been drawn. Their goal was the domination of all North Africa, Egypt, parts of France, and the entire Mediterranean world.īut the dreams of empire of the Japanese and Fascist leaders were modest in comparison with the gargantuan aspirations of Hitler and his Nazis. The Fascists first revealed their imperial designs in Libya and Tripoli. The development of this ambitious conspiracy was marked by the war against China in 1894 the subsequent occupation of Korea the war against Russia in 1904 the illegal fortification of the mandated Pacific islands following 1920 the seizure of Manchuria in 1931 and the invasion of China in 1937.Ī similar policy of criminal conquest was adopted by Italy. It was not merely a policy of seeking living room: it was a plan which included the subjugation of all the peoples in the Far East and in the islands of the Pacific, and the domination of that ocean by Japanese military and naval control of the western coasts of North, Central, and South America. Japan's scheme of conquest goes back half a century. We know their choice of the method: the method of Hitler himself. ![]() ![]() We know their choice of the place: an American outpost in the Pacific. We now know their choice of the time: a peaceful Sunday morning- December 7, 1941. They-not we-will choose the time and the place and the method of their attack." are ready to make war upon us, they will not wait for an act of war on our part. The response of the American people has been instantaneous, and it will be sustained until our security is assured.Įxactly one year ago today I said to this Congress: "When the dictators. IN FULFILLING my duty to report upon the State of the Union, I am proud to say to you that the spirit of the American people was never higher than it is today-the Union was never more closely knit together-this country was never more deeply determined to face the solemn tasks before it. ![]()
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