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