How business, doctors and journalists prey on your food anxieties I
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Germany advertised her growing military might, hoping-with some success-to awe the democracies into acquiescence .<br />
their Nazi allics, .ihose armies w,erc<br />
storming across Eastern Europe <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
plunging deep into the Soviet Uni<strong>on</strong> .<br />
The militan' vulnerabilin, of the<br />
United States after losing se~eral bartlcships<br />
of its Pacific fleet at Pearl<br />
Harbor quickly became painfully apparent<br />
in many ways . The swift <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
brutal Japanese c<strong>on</strong>quest of the Philippines<br />
was <strong>on</strong>e of the most obvious<br />
examples . But the West Coast of the<br />
United States itself was so vulnerablc<br />
that a Japanese submarine surfaced oHrhe<br />
southern California coast <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
sank two tankers within sieht of horritied<br />
civilians <strong>on</strong> sltore-<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> with no<br />
re,apnnse whatever from American naval<br />
or militarv forces . The head of the<br />
American naval forces c<strong>on</strong>fided to<br />
then California attorne\ general Earl<br />
Warren that there w:i+ nothing he<br />
could do about it . The ancient planes<br />
under his comm<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> would have rcquired<br />
hours of repair work just to get<br />
them in c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong> to take off .<br />
American soldiers fighting for<br />
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their ln es against the Japanesc in the<br />
Philippines were likewise using obsolete<br />
rifles left over from the First<br />
World War <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> grcnades so old that<br />
most did not go off. The hideous<br />
Had Britain fallen, the<br />
positi<strong>on</strong> of the U.S . would<br />
have been dire . Hitler had<br />
the U .S . <strong>on</strong> his list for<br />
attack in 1943, but the<br />
Japanese jumped the gun when<br />
they bombed Pearl Harbor .<br />
atrocities suffered bv both American<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Filipino pris<strong>on</strong>ers ofwar after the<br />
Japanese c<strong>on</strong>quered the Philippines<br />
u•ere part of the ]tigh price paid for<br />
the pre%k ar moral preening of pacifists<br />
that had made it politically impossible<br />
to provide American fighting<br />
men with the weapnns needed to<br />
defend themseh•es-<br />
It was halftvav through World<br />
War II before the industrial producti<strong>on</strong><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> the bclated rearmament of<br />
the United States began to turn all of<br />
this around . Not <strong>on</strong>ly were American<br />
troops now better equipped,<br />
British <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> Russian militarv forces<br />
were also being supplied with vast<br />
amounts of war matcricl from the<br />
United States .<br />
Amid all the celebrati<strong>on</strong>s of the<br />
tiftieth ann iversarvofviet<strong>on</strong>- in World<br />
War II, let us never forget how close<br />
the Western democracies came to being<br />
defeated-or what a horror it<br />
would ha% e been tor the whole world<br />
if thev had lost . Nor should ~~e ever<br />
forget what policies <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> illusi<strong>on</strong>s<br />
brought the Western nati<strong>on</strong>s to the<br />
brink of catastrophe .<br />
Those illusi<strong>on</strong>s, todav mi .xed ~N ith<br />
a barelv c<strong>on</strong>cealed hostilitv to Western<br />
civilizati<strong>on</strong>, have spaicned a<br />
whofe trend of revisi<strong>on</strong>ist historv,<br />
•,vhieh is not c<strong>on</strong>cerned with the<br />
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