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- 2 - " IN THIS FACT LIES THE TRAGEDY OF THE LATEST EVENTS"( Heavy type in text)." It seems to us as though our so-called statesmen made the big mistake of having opened their mouths wider than they covld have taken the responsi- bility for with armed striking power, with actions. Only last week our President said that our merchant ships in the Pacific for the time being would not get any armament and this statement is proof for the fact that the administration believed that it could get away with putting the Japanese to fear and trembling by means of a few sharp word skirmishes. We also did'nt like the tone of those zealous " warriors" in their words and writings who lied to the people and apparently also to the politicians in Washington that Japan could be pushed within a few days from the surface of this somewhat crazy world. " Nothing can be changed any longer about the fact of being at war with Japan and therefore the cry for national unity is WELL JUSTIFIED." (Heavy type in text.) " But we cannot refrain from pointing to several matters which bother us and we do so in the interest of national strength and in order to prevent as much as possible loss of American blood. Namely: " From this day on we are no longer justified as a people and as a nation TO SEND ARMS, MUNITIONS AND FOOD "(Heavy type in text) ™ to England, China, nor the Bolsheviks nor to Turkey. Because it would be a crime if our soldiers would be pushed to their death and perishing end disaster UNARMED AND INSUFFI- CIENTLY FED." (Heavy type in text.) "¥Yes,- if we only had today those arms, planes, tanks, canons, merchant ships and those DESTROYERS" (Heavy type in text) "in short all those things which we squandered on other nations,- then we could be much more dangerous to the Japanese. *" Inasmuch as the government in Washington by its attitude sieaxiyxmanifestei against Japan clearly manifested that America regards the land of the rising sun as its most dangerous enemy we might just as well take the German