War Comes to America Page #3

With China 43%, with Japan 2%

Undecided 55%.

We hadrt made up our minds about China.

Our Neutrality Act, barred sales of

armaments only to nations at war.

The Japanese had not declared war, so we went right

on selling scrap iron and gasoline to Japan.

In March of 1938, Hitler had not declared war either.

But his goose-stepping army suddenly smashed in

and occupied all the soil of Austria.

Six months later, Hitler and his stooge

met the anxious democracy at Munich.

Hitler promised peace in our time, if Britain

And France would give him that part of

Czechoslovakia know as the Sudetenland.

Britain and France gave him that part of

Czechoslovakia hoping...

...to avert war.

Now we had his word. Peace in our time.

At home we began to hear strange headlines.

Extra! Extra! F.B.I. Captures Nazi spy ring!

We sat in our theatres unbelieving, as motion

pictures exposed Nazi espionage in America.

Dear Gentlemen, we know that

if America is to be free,

...we must destroy the chain

that ties the whole misery...

...of American politics together. And

that is the United States Constitution.

Could these things really be?

Yes these subversive acts, were happening

in real life, everyday.

German-American bands organized for

the purpose of destroying us,

...marched under our very noses.

I pledge undivided allegiance to the flag

of The United States of America.

As a republic for which it stand, under one nation

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

In our Press we read the news from abroad, that

Nazis were spending millions...

...arming Germany to the teeth.

We read that the Tokyo diet was

Appropriating tremendous sums,

...converting Japan into one

vast munitions plant.

We watched these supposedly poor, have-not

nations, spend huge sums for armament,

...and we wondered why.

Arrogantly, they told us why.

They had declared war on us long

before the shooting had started.

We have actually been at war since the day

when we lifted the flag of our revolution

against the democratic world!"

...- Mussolini

The Germans are a noble and unique race to whom

the earth was given by the Grace of God." Hitler

The world must come to look up to our emperor as

the great ruler of all nations." Lord Hotta

When the people of these three nations, elected

To follow their leaders, death incorporated...

They organized to smash personal freedom,

...equality of man,

...freedom of speech,

...freedom of religion.

Organized to smash the very principals

that made us the people we are.

So in December 1938, when

the gallop poll asked us,

Should the United Sates increase the

strength of its Army, Navy and Air Force?"

We answered YES 85%

It was time to look to our defense.

Gentlemen this is the Military Affairs

Committee House of Representatives,

...meeting for the purpose of considering

...national defense.

The Navy is asking for an increase of 25%,

...in authorized Naval tonnage, in view

of the grave international situation.

Congress, reflecting the voice of the people,

...appropriated the largest sum for military use,

ever voted during peace in American history.

We didn't dream that a few years later

it would look like peanuts.

On March 14, 1939, Adolf Hitler broke

the pledge he made at Munich.

He took over all the rest of Czechoslovakia.

There would be no more peace in our time.

April 7, 1939. As we here in America

observe Good Friday.

Extra paper, extra paper!

Italy attacks Albania!"

The picture was becoming clear.

The conquering forces of violence were...

...being set loose in the world.

In a last desperate effort

to avert a World War,

President Roosevelt sent messages

to Hitler and Mussolini

...asking their promise to respect

the independence of 33 countries.

To Adolf Hitler, this message was a

huge joke, as he repeated the names.

This was the only answer

that the President received.

On September 1, 1939, the Nazi army

smashed into Poland.

Warsaw

England and France had a treaty with Poland.

Would they act now?

At home, we listened:

Adolf Hitler's all out attack on Poland,

...makes the long-dreaded European war

a certainty."

Prime Minister Chamberlain of Great Britain

gave the Nazi leader...

...a zero hour for withdrawing

his troops from Poland."

That zero hour ends now. At this time

we transfer you to London...

...for an important announcement

by the British Prime Minister."

Up to the very last, it would have been

quite possible to have arranged a...

...peaceable and honorable settlement,

between Germany and Poland."

But Hitler would not have it."

In a situation, in which

no word given by...

...Germany's ruler could be trusted,

...and no people or its country could feel

itself safe, had become intolerable."

Now may God bless you all,

...and may he defend the right. For it is evil

things we should be fighting against,

and against them I am certain,

that the right will prevail."

Six hours after Great Britain

declared war on Nazi Germany,

...the Republic of France followed. All

France is in a mail-storm of activity.

The Maginot Line has already

opened fire on the Germans.

World War Two has begun.

At home we were asked:

What country do you consider

responsible for causing this war?

Germany 82%

We Americans had no doubt who started it,

Also we began to fear that this warm...

...was going concern us.

President Roosevelt, called a special

session of Congress

to reconsider the embargo against

selling munitions.

"I have asked the Congress to

reassemble in extraordinary session,

...in order that it may consider

and act on,

...changes in our Neutrality Law."

The men of Congress wrestled with

their beliefs and our future.

They debated and they argued.

"The arms embargo is far

too great a security,

...to American peace, to permit

its surrender...

...without a last-ditch fight."

The embargo act, as it now stands,

is one-sided and works entirely

to the advantage of one side.

Therefore the embargo act

should be modified."

Therefore the embargo act

should be modified."

We the people also argued and debated,

whether we should sell arms and munitions.

When the question was put to us,

we had an answer.

Should we change the neutrality act so we

can sell war supplies?

YES 57%

Shortly after, our Representatives

changed the Neutrality Act.

ARMS EMBARGO REPEALED

Arms for sale, but come and get them

We lifted the embargo on arms and munitions.

Now we would sell, if purchasers would pay

and take the stuff away in their own ships.

American ships were still barred

from combat zones.

Meanwhile on the other side of the globe.

Japan was busy trying to bomb, shoot and

Terrorize the Chinese into submission.

We began to realize that if Japan

conquered 400 million Chinese,

...she might become so strong as

to run us right out of the Pacific.

You will remember that two years earlier

in September 1937,

...when we were asked: In the present fight

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