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We Must Win This War
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The Seattle Post-Intelliger.cer, recently published a splendid!
editorial, summing up our position in the war in which we are I
now engaged and outlining the blackground of history which has
brought us to this step which must now be final.
At the time, formal war had not been declared between this |
country' afid Japan’s partners in Europe, The positon taken by j
the Seattle paper, however, is even more pertinent now than at
the date it was first printed. Following is the editorial:
"The President and the Congress of the United States have
spoken. Beyond question they have spoken the will of the people
"The very brevity of President Roosevelt’s address—-a brevity
that added to its forcefulness—shows his recognition of the ur
gency of this hour.
“The Congress has declared itse'f in a vote that swept aside ^
all partisan division.
“That vote mirrors the trust of the people in Franklin D. j
Roosevelt—and the determination to follow his vigorous and far- j
sighted leadership.
“And now the time for speaking is over. The time for action j
is here.
“Our program is no longer a ddfense program. It is, a war |
program. The best protection .ies in an attack that must continue
■until neither upon the Pacific nor upon the Atlantic, remains a
threat to the safety and dignity of peace-loving people.
“We must win the war: we must also win the peace.
“The last peace left the seeds of war in Europe.
“It also left in the Pacific a situation which enabled Japan,
on the bloody Sunday of December 7, 1941, to deliver crippling
blows upon our naval forces and to slaughter civilians, with the
hope that retribution might be delayed until it would be com
parably ineffective.
“In World ar I, Germany primarily a land power, was able
to make comparatively little use of its Pacific possessions,
“In the peace the German co’onies were taken over by the
victorious powers. But while title was vested in the League ofl
Nations, possession of Pacific islands was turned over to Japan.
“It is now easy to say that it was highly dangerous to give
Japan, primarily a sea power, possession of these islands.
“It was also inevitable. The United States Army and Navy
were decisive factors in winning Wor d War I. Japan, on the
other hand, was no more than a silent partner of the Allies. Yet
in the final analysis an inactive Japan won, from World War I
a tremendous advantage over a United States that had been an
active participant and had the power and the right to insist upon
a settlement that would insure its future strength and safety.
“Let it not be thought that complete victory', to which the
United Slates must now devote all national energies, will be easy.
“Westward of Hawaii lie three major groups of islands in
Japan’s possession—the Marhalls, the Carolines and the Marianas.
“It is obvious that the possession of these islands, lying ath
wart the direct route between Hawaii and the Far East, consti
tutes a serious threat alike to merchant shipping on the Pacific
■and to the supply routes of our naval vessels, operating in any
part of Oriental waters.
“The classic naval view has been that a direct naval attack
upon Japan would require the taking one after another, of
these island groups—which Japan has in the meantime secretly
fortified— with the arduous process of establishing supply bases
upon each group in turn, before the navy would be in a position
to lay down an effective blockade, or meet the Japanese navy,
on substantially even terms, in Far Eastern waters.
"It may be that with the cooperation of British naval forces
in the Far East, the use of the naval facilities at Singapore, and
or a strategy of air attack upon Japan from Vladivostok, may
call for other modes of action.
“It is however, patent that possession of these outlying is
land bases by Japan constitutes not only a threat to this nation
in this hour of war, but also to any future peace.
“The devious story of the mandated islands is a part of the
chronicle of Japanese deceit and treachery that covered most of
the years between World Wars I and II.
“Japan held the islands in trust for the League of Nations.
"Japan was reprimanded by the League for launching its
Manchurian conquest, ten years ago, in open violation of the nine
power pact. Thereupon Japan stalked out of the League — but
kept the islands. And the League had become so impotent that
it could do nothing about it.
“In truth, the trail of war which Japan started in the Man
churian incident” of September, 1931 has now moved around
the world and back to the Pacific.
“That will all be written in history.
“Our immediate task is to defeat Japan.
‘May we suggest these definite steps at home:
“Prompt action by Congress to enact a price control bill,
with teeth in it.
“Voluntary action, by labor and management, to establish a
truce for the duration of the war.
“The devotion of every male citizen to whatever form of ac
tivity he or she may find at hand, or be called upon to do.
“We are one hundred and thirty million in numbers and
normally we have many minds and diverse interests.
“Today our interests are identical.
“We must win this war.”
Alaska Defenses
Will Slop Enemy
There isn’t a chance for an
enemy nation successfully to in
vade Alaska, in the opinion of
Fr. Bernard Hubarbd, the “Gla
cier Priest,” who spent a consid
erable part of the last season
making a detailed survey of con
ditions and who later Submitted
a detailed report of his findings
and conclusions to Army officials
in San Francisco.
Father Hubbard, who for the
past fifteen years has been study
ing the mountains and volcanoes
of Alaska and who has flown
over almost every mile of the
Territory, returned north last
July with a commission from the
Army to report on any vu'nerab
ility to attack which he might
find, and the adequacy of Alas
kan defenses.
“I want to say that the Army
is doing a fine job in establish
ing bases for defending Alaska,”
he declared upon his return.
Forces Entrenched
“The country is such that the
armed forces of Alaska can hold
it. Our armed forces are very
much there at present.
“The warlike nations of the,
east may try to invade Alaska
but their trouble would be many.
But there is a logical path which
they might try to follow’.
“It first would be necessary to
seize Vladivostok for a base.
That Siberian port would be the
nearest railroad terminus to Al
asya —and that is as far from
Alaska as it is from Seattle to
Panama.
“Then they wmuld follow two
lines —first heading north and
seizing the Russian part of the
Island of Sakhalin. Japan owns
the southern half but it is the
Russian part to the north that
has all the petroleum.
Rich Fisheries
“Secondly they w’ould head
northw’est for Kamchatka with
a 1 its rich fisheries. And finally,
that done, they might try to go
to Alaska, but it wouldn’t do
them much good.
“Even if they could conquer
Alaska, it would be most ludi
crous for them to attempt to use
Alaska as a base of operations to
invade the United States or Can
ada. Geographically, such a cam
paign would be doomed.
“A few well-placed air fields,
submarine and Navy bases would
block any warlike moves.”
Father Hubbard discounted
rumors of vast fortifications on
Big Diomede Island and other
foreign possession near the Ber
ing Strait.
Nothing to Spy
“Of course, there may be some
spying in Alaska by agents of
unfriend'y powers^ but just what
wmuld they spy? They can buy
maps of all Alaska waters. They
can easily obtain essential wea
ther data, and everyone knows
W'here the armed forces are sta
tioned.”
While details of Father Hub
bard's report to the Army are a
secret, it is understood the trip
was made largely to designate
the best airfield sites in the in
terior of Alaska.
Father Hubbard’s detailed
topographical knowledge of Al
aska, it is understood, fitted him
especially for a report on the
best sites.
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Notice of Rendering First and
Final Report of Administrator
and Petition for Final Order of
Distribution
No. 636
In the Probate Court in and
for the Cape Nome Precinct,
Second Division: Territory of
Alaska.
In the matter of the Estate of
BLAKE BARLOW WALES. De
ceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that
B. B. Mozee, Administrator of
the estate of Blake Barlow Wales,
deceased, has rendered for final
settlement, and filed in the above
Court his first and final report of
administrator and petition for
final order of distribution, and
that Wednesday, the 4th day of
Februafy, 1942, at 10 o’clock a.
m., at the office and courtroom of
the Court in Nome. Alaska, has
.been set as the time and place
for the settlement of the account
and report and for hearing ob
jections thereto if any there be,
and for a hearing on the petition,
and all persons interested in the
estate are hereby notified then
and there to appear and show
cause, if any they have, why the
account and report should not be
settled and allowed and why dis
tribution of the estate should not
thereupon be immediately made j
to the persons entitled thereto
without further notice or pro
ceedings. At such hearing the
Court will adjudicate and decree
who are the heirs and distribut
ees of the deceased. Reference is
hereby made to the account, re
port and petition for further par
ticulars.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this
3rd day of December, 1941.
B. B. Mozee Administrator
Publish Dec. 3, 10, 17, 24, 1941 j
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