Prelude to War Page #3

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That's what they promised them.

ThatAmericans, Chinese,

..Russians, SouthAmericans, all free peoples

would work for them and make them rich.

And how they ate it up!

We shall restore the glory

that was Rome.

Today we rule Germany.

Tomorrow the world.

The Pacific is ours!

It was inevitable that these countries

should gang up on us.

The little fellow is our pal,

Kurusu

Who smiled his way into our hearts

in December, 1941.

Here he and his friends are busy

carving up the world in advance.

Staking out their claims.

Take a good look at these claims.

Here is the ltaly that Mussolini

took over in 1922.

And almost his first act was to tell

the ltalians they were the rightful...

.. owners of Corsica, Nice, Savoien,

Albania,

Tunisia, Ethiopia, and a land corridor

linking it with Libya.

Later on he had an even bigger dream,

..the Old Roman Empire as it existed

nearly 2000 years ago.

To dominate all the lands joining

the Mediterranean.

Mare Nostrum, Our Sea they called it,

just as the ancient Romans did.

As for the Japanese, they had

some ambitions too.

By 1920, they had grabbed of Formosa, Korea and

the southern half of the island of Sakhalin.

Then Baron Giichi Tanaka,

the Prime Minister,

..carefully set down Japanese aims

in a document called theTanaka Memorial.

It was presented to the Emperor

on July 25, 1927.

In order to conquer the world,

we must first conquer China.

Here was their dream.

Manchuria for raw materials.

China for manpower. Then a triumphant

March through lndo China...

..Siam, Burma, lndia, the East lndia,

..and on throughAustralia and New Zealand.

In the north, all they claimed was

that part of Russia east of Lake Baikal.

That was to be the new order inAsia.

Then the Japs would move eastward

to crush the United States.

And really start the Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Now take a look at the bite

the Nazis reserved for themselves.

Here's the Germany Hitler walked

into and here's what he wanted.

First Europe under his complete

political and economic control.

Leaving Mussolini a share of the loot,

if he behaved himself.

Then a drive to the east, through the rich

oil lands of lran and lraq and into lndia.

Another push south, throughAfrica.

Then from Dakar, jump off to meet

the Honorary Arians...

..who were to move in on SouthAmerica

through the Pacific.

At the same time, start across

the Scandinavian countries.

To hook up with his buck-toothed pals

coming over from Siberia,

..to join in the conquest of

the United States.

There it is gents.

All they left us was Shangri-La.

And they'd claim that too,

if they knew where it was.

And did they think they had a chance?.

Listen.........

"When war comes between Japan and the

United States, I shall not be content...

..to occupy Guam, The Philippines,

Hawaii and San Francisco."

I look forward to debating the peace to the

United States in the White House in Washington."

Yamamoto wrote those words of January, 1941.

Yes the conquering Jap army down Pennsylvania

Avenue.

That was the final goal. You will see

what they did to the man and women...

..of Mankind, Hong Kong and Manila.

I imagine the field day they would have enjoyed if

they'd marched through the streets of Washington?.

But before striking, a preliminary step

was necessary.

..From Berlin...

..From Rome...

.. From Tokyo, the Champaign started.

Propaganda, to confuse, divide,

soften up their intended victims.

Put them on the defensive.

Put them on the defensive.

Scream your abuse!

Shout you're oppressed!

The World is wrong. You are right!

If you shriek it loud enough and

often enough, they'll believe you.

Above all, use their free speech and

their free press to destroy them.

Lebensraum" they demanded.

Living room!

Our lands are over-crowded and at

the same time, they gave prizes to mothers,

..who bore the most sons.

They brought together large groups of young

men and young girls for human breeding.

Read what one of their leaders wrote:

"Round up a thousand German girls. Isolate them in

a camp. Then let them be joined by a hundred...

..German men. If a hundred such camps were

set up, you would have 100,000 thoroughbred

children in one stroke."

--Dr. Williband Hentschel

Of course the children from this

assembly line, belonged to the state...

..to be scientifically trained for conquest.

Another howl, was lack of raw materials.

They claimed they were the ""have-nots""

and we were the "haves."

But out of this supposed lack, they

built up the greatest war machines...

..the world has ever known.

These are the published figures

from the German Military budget.

Actually between 1933, and 1939

Hitler's program of re-armament cost

more than 80 billion dollars.

The Nazis alone assembled

a striking force of...

..30 Panzer divisions,

70 motorized divisions,

1 40 infantry divisions, plus the Luftwaffe,

the world's largest air force.

And they had no raw materials.

Think of the bread the automobiles, the good things of

life the German, ltalian, Japanese leaders...

..might have given their people, if

they had spent this money for peace,

..instead of war.

You know what billions we are now

spending to match their military force.

No, no these arguments were all smoke screens.

When war came, the democracies proved

to be the "have-nots."

And our enemies the "haves."

And when war came, where did it come?.

Remember that date, September 18, 1941.

A date we should remember as well as

December 7, 1941.

For on that date, in 1 931...

..the war we are now fighting began.

The place was Manchuria, the northern

most Province of China,

..6000 miles from San Francisco.

Manchuria the first objective

in the Tanaka plan.

By September 18th, the Japanese,

who by treaty patrolled...

..the southern Manchuria railway, had secretly

and illegally increased their garrison.

On the Korean/Manchuria border an entire

Japanese army was assembled,

..conveniently equipped for a winter campaign.

All they needed was an excuse.

They made their own.

At 10:
30 that night, just after

the Mukden Express passed by,

..a section of track was dynamited, causing

damage to one rail and two fish-plates.

Japan's honour had violated.

In half an hour, the Japanese railroad

garrison launched a co-ordinated attack,

on the barracks for the sleeping Chinese

army at Mukden.

The slaughter was appalling.

By midnight, the conveniently

placed Japanese army,

..poured across the Korean border

and the first open act of aggression...

..the invasion of Manchuria was on.

In four days they had occupied

the whole of southern Manchuria.

And shortly after, the whole country.

Manchuria became Manchukuo a puppet state

with an obedient stooge on the throne.

Henry Pu Yi.

A weakling, whom the Japanese

had prepared for the job...

..was seven years of women and song.

In Washington, Henry L. Simson,

then Secretary of State.

..was now Secretary of War,

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