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j Gene j>v/son, Orner Sc Editor
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Wake Up, Please.
; Ear is in the air! Civilization
is threatened an it never has been
i before! The Blitzfreig has already
, ”strrffec*” the women ^nd children
• of Europe from vyhence c^mo our for
f'-there to free themselves from
•r.he oppression of feudal lords and
| to establish for themselves and
I their children, land' of freedom.
In this they succeeded rnu built
for posterity, a nation that has.,
prospered for r hundreo '>nd sixty
I odd years and which has success
fully given that” freedom and. that
equality of opportunity what had
been hungered for and fought for
I thru’ a thousand years of v/ar*
|poverty and oppression.
This land of liberty, life and
love .is now facing a real threat
to our national security, is-beyon
’ the point. This hus been knov/n for
• : several years, in fact, ever since
I the PE panese invaded Manchuria and
Slater China, it has be^n brought.
jhome to use more recently by the
rumblings .in Soviet Russia and
]particularly of recent date when
'xhat unhappy cowntry started a
deported propaganda that our Terr
: oat pry of \iaska‘had been V/rested
| from hereby, unfair-means and that
1ix’was • incumbrent upon the present
re g imo to re -acquire .it.' And. n o w,
* the-‘"Bear that walks like, a Man"
has made pence with the deppoiler
pf China,, means a further threat
from, across the Pacific .as well ns
from the East..
As said before, these tnruats
h"ve been known for some years and
have been recognized by those who
, are charged with our nnt:‘ onal * sccu
, riiy, as a reyl danger,. However, J
: our peace-loving people are slow tc
sec the warnings r.nc. it is hard foi
• them to realize that war. might come
11:d us and tha,t we are,, in fact, on
:jthe program of the-war-fiords of >.
:"urope ~nd. Asia for a. "Blitzkreig"
'.dosigned on the pattern .of that
jvrhxch has so recently brought deatl
.-‘rid misery to millions ,of people ir
'Europe and China.. .., •
The ' expe rienoe o of the last f ev/
(month/* proves to us only too vivid
fly thr.t. we nrb w.lner^b3e and are'
not prepared torvdequhteiy defend
lour selves' were .we attacked
. For at least seven years p^ot/
high na vr1 ruth orities and military
e t r ' teg is to have r e c ogn i z e u that
Alaska holds the key”t. the defense
of the Pacific Coast. Each ye->r
since the original survey expediti ,
pas sent to Alaska in 1931*,' the Fry
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|hti ■ nr.a pxped It? ore along the const
jc r /J,cU'k<>. lid i.it* v/etcern inlands
sbud.yAng olif- defence problems of th-£
Ptc-imie hern- Vrr::.le we have axv/nys
believed that an ocean incoioening
between us : nd r potential enemy
0 1 ea fed a, bnrrie >.* a ga Inst on aggre- j
esi/e attack; we today know that
£ uch a body of water is but c? high-'
way>. free cc fhouse of any power |
c etermined to a black us and the I
sxies of f 2r•a nean a by whioh our i
peoples may be " straffed’’ and bombef
to destruction.
After rn intensive study of
this s:' tuition, 'our.. strr teg.i sts
determined that Womans’- B-y.. hero in 1
KocViV-k. offered . the ideal 'Location
if or yhe operations of our nrva'L
force along, r line of defense which
would ox bond .from these local cr.oro.j
thro ugh 'for rl Harbor, Haw a i i, thence
to the'Canal Zone. Apparently this
plan is important from a ni.litary
standpjint for it wns conceived
wit a the . chw-oght' of stopping can
laggro urur -..v'-oming- fr-om-~the - West ■ bef pi;
he could rea on our industrial center
part of. wnlch is scattered along
the 71a cifxc coast and thereby infl
1 o t p o r s 1 b 1 y i r r c pa r - • b 1 e cl am a g e :
the -President and Congress were
sufficiently impressed with the dan
gers we were then facing, to make
[appropriations of millions of doll
ars toward the project.
Time, seems to be the essence
of r 1.1 military preparations, espe
cially in view of what c-n happen
and what has taappenci in Lurope to
c.zy, yestcrcay and- the day before
that. We already have teen threate
ned by the nations from the e'^st
v;ho are r- v^ging Lurope, and we hrve
sent a tacit threat-to our beighbor
'to the Wes-t, the cusp oiler of China.
These incidents may hasten the time
(see page 7)
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