Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
1941-12-07

JAPAN DECLARES WAR AGAINST U.S.

Jap Bombers Raid Pearl Harbor; U.S. Forces in Action

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Charleston Daily Mail
1941-12-06

Peace Commission Urged In Wake of Tokyo Reply

Embassy Attaches Recalled by Japan

Press Heightens Tirade as Member Of Privy Council Moves for Peace

TOKYO, Dec. 6 (AP).—Amid ominous new developments In the Pacific, the Japanese press hardened in hostility toward the United Stales today, one prominent newspaper, Kokumin, declaring that in the event of "American aggression a billion people of East Asia would become bombs" against Britain and the United States...

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Albuquerque Journal
1941-12-05

National Whirligig

News Behind the News

WASHINGTON By Kay Tucker

DILEMMA. Japan's apparent decision to challenge the United States and Great Britain in the Far Pacific derives from her desperate economic plight more than from the necessity to "save face." According to confidential communiques from Tokyo and Chungking, Nippon does not dare to bring home the 3,000,000 troops who have been fighting in China for  almost a decade.

Economically the nation is bankrupt. She has lost foreign markets for her finished textiles. Prices have risen, and she suffersfrom aggravated unemployment....

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Oakland Tribune
1941-12-04

Isolationists Accused of Ignoring America's Real War Threat—Japan

For the first time the country is now really on the verge of actual, all-out war. The alarms have been sounded many times before, but only by those who have failed to grasp the real situation and our relation to it. Thus, as late as a month ago, the main body of the Republicans and some of the Democrats in Congress were still unable to see that if war came, it would not come as a result of our naval intervention in the North Atlantic, nor as a result of lend-lease aid to Britain and Russia, but as a result of a head-on collision with Japan...

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Las Cruces Sun-News
1941-12-03

Hull Tells Japs Non-Aggression Peace Necessity

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — (AP)— Secretary of State Cordell Hull, back at his office after a brief attack of cold, reiterated that a general settlement in the Pacific still depends on Japanese acceptance of the non-aggression policies outlined in the American note handed to the Jap envoys last week.

He said no reply to that note has been received yet...

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Moberly Monitor-Index
1941-12-02

NAVY IS READY IN BOTH OCEANS

U.S. Has World's Greatest Battle Fleet and Best Gunners, Knox Emphasizes

Secretary Frank Knox announced today that the United States Navy is now prepared to meet any emergency in the Atlantic or the Pacific or in both simultaneously.

In a signed article in The American Magazine he states:

"The United States today has the greatest navy in the world. We are prepared to meet any emergency which may arise, on one or on two oceans. With the powerful new accessions to our fleet, with the greater range of operations given by our new bases, and our hundreds of new auxiliary vessels, and with the Panama Canal permitting strategic shifts of strength, we are able to handle all immediately possible threats in both oceans."...

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Albuquerque Journal
1941-12-01

U.S. Flyers to Defend Burma Road Against Japan

Announcement Is Made As Pacific War Crisis Becomes More Serious

Hull, Halifax Confer as Roosevelt Hurries To Washington; Britain Augments East Forces; Tokyo Says Premier's Remarks 'Misinterpreted'...

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The News and Tribune
1941-11-30

F.D.R. Warns War Possible Within a Year

President Prepares to Rush to Washington as Pacific Crisis Grows

WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Nov. 29 -- (AP) -- President Roosevelt said tonight it was always possible that "our boys in the military and naval academies may be fighting for the defense of American institutions" by next Thanksgiving. He then conferred with Secretary Hull by telephone, and considered rushing back to Washington because of the latest turn in the Japanese situation...

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Daily Globe
1941-11-29

SHOWDOWN IS NEAR IN FAR EAST

U.S.,British Must Be Purged From Asia, Says Jap Premier

(By The Associated Press)

The Far East crisis, already near the explosion point, was tinged with sharp new gravity today as Japan's Premier Gen, Jlideki Tojo reportedly declared that Japan must "purge East Asia with a vengeance" to get rid of United States and British "exploitation".

Britain cancelled all troop leaves for her great Far Eastern stronghold at Singapore today...

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The Maryville Daily Forum
1941-11-28

Far East Crisis Is Extremely Grave

Fate of Peace in Pacific Hangs in Balance as Japanese Press Says Negotiations Near An End and U. S. Rules Out Chance of Compromise.

Invasion of Thailand Is Expected To Be First Move by the Japanese

(By the Associated Press)

With the fate of peace in the Pacific hanging in the balance, Japan's press today voiced belief that Japanese American negotiations were near-an end and Washington reports said the Far East crisis had reached a point of extreme gravity...

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