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00:01:50 #1 Are we Americans on the march?
00:01:53 #2 Is it because of...
00:02:04 #3 Is that why we are fighting?
00:02:06 #4 Or is it because of...
00:03:33 #5 Yugoslavia that made us change our way of living overnight?
00:04:07 #6 What turned our resources, our machines,
00:04:10 #7 our whole nation into one vast arsenal,
00:04:13 #8 producing more and more weapons of war
00:04:15 #9 instead of the old materials of peace?
00:04:27 #10 Put us into uniform ready to engage the enemy
00:04:29 #11 on every continent and every ocean.
00:04:42 #12 What are these two worlds of which Mr. Wallace spoke?
00:04:46 #13 The free and the slave.
00:04:50 #14 Let's take the free world first.
00:04:53 #15 Our world.
00:04:54 #16 How did it become free, only through a long and unceasing
00:04:58 #17 struggle inspired by men of vision?
00:05:02 #18 Moses, Muhammad, Confucius, Christ,
00:05:19 #19 all believed that in the sight of God, all men were created equal.
00:05:24 #20 And from that, their developed spirit among men and nations,
00:05:28 #21 which is best expressed in our own declaration of freedom.
00:05:31 #22 We hold these truths to be selfless,
00:05:34 #23 that all men are created equal.
00:05:37 #24 It is the cornerstone upon which our nation was built,
00:05:41 #25 and the ideal of all the great liberators.
00:05:44 #26 Washington, Jefferson, Garibaldi, Lafayette,
00:05:51 #27 The Shusko, Bolivar, Lincoln, lighthouses, lighting up a dark and foggy world.
00:06:01 #28 That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
00:06:10 #29 earth.
00:06:11 #30 Fighting, living, dying, for what?
00:06:15 #31 For freedom.
00:06:16 #32 That for which men have fought since time began, to be free, is life so dear or peace so sweet,
00:06:30 #33 as to be purchased at the price of change and slavery, forbid it, Almighty God.
00:06:37 #34 I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
00:06:46 #35 But what of this other world?
00:06:51 #36 Here, man insisted that progress lay in killing freedom.
00:06:55 #37 Here, they were putting out the lighthouses, one by one.
00:07:00 #38 Here, the march of history was reversing itself.
00:07:04 #39 In Italy, it began when an ambitious rabble rouser set his followers marching on Rome.
00:07:10 #40 The country, like every other country after the last war, was torn by political unrest, hard times, unemployment.
00:07:22 #41 employment courses were available to the Italian people they could solve their
00:07:30 #42 problems in a free democratic way or they could let someone else do the solving
00:07:35 #43 for them they made the tragic mistake of choosing the second course they put their
00:07:40 #44 trust and faith in this one man they believed he represented them actually he
00:07:45 #45 planned to betray them for the selfish interests of himself and the group back
00:07:50 #46 of him, just as he had early betrayed those who first supported him.
00:07:56 #47 In Germany, another and even more forceful demigod said his fellow was marching from the Munich
00:08:01 #48 Beer Hall.
00:08:03 #49 He too had the sinister opportunity to take advantage of post-war chaos.
00:08:08 #50 But he also had certain distinctive German characteristics to play on.
00:08:21 #51 To start with, the Germans have an inborn national love of regimentation and harsh
00:08:26 #52 discipline.
00:08:27 #53 He could give them that.
00:08:29 #54 The German army and through them the people had never acknowledged
00:08:41 #55 German defeat in the last war and were anxious for revenge.
00:08:45 #56 That too, he promised them.
00:08:47 #57 The wealthy and powerful industrialists were fearful of losing
00:08:51 #58 any of their wealth and power and were ready to back anyone
00:08:54 #59 who would retain it for them.
00:08:55 #60 He promised to take care of them too.
00:08:58 #61 This man cunningly played all these ends against the middle
00:09:02 #62 and ruthlessly set out to murder the newborn German Republic.
00:09:06 #63 As the will of the Emperor.
00:09:11 #64 But the Japanese people, the Emperor is God.
00:09:14 #65 Taking advantage of their fanatical worship of the God Emperor,
00:09:19 #66 it was no great trick to take away what little freedom they had ever known.
00:09:24 #67 Yes, in these lands, the people surrendered their liberties
00:09:27 #68 and threw away their human dignity.
00:09:29 #69 They gave up their rights as individual human beings
00:09:41 #70 and became a part of a mass, a human herd.
00:09:49 #71 human herd. Although these countries were far apart and different and custom and in language,
00:10:01 #72 the same poison made them much alike. Each got a new uniform. In Italy, the new bosses
00:10:07 #73 wore black shirts. In Germany, the shirts were brown. In Japan, they hid behind the uniform
00:10:13 #74 of the army. Really, they belonged to a sinister secret society. Their symbol was a black
00:10:20 #75 The other fellas had to have a symbol too.
00:10:24 #76 Germany, a swastika.
00:10:26 #77 In Italy, the old Roman symbol of the fascists.
00:10:30 #78 In Germany, they called the new order
00:10:33 #79 National Socialism or Nazism.
00:10:37 #80 In Italy, they had a shorter word.
00:10:42 #81 Fascism.
00:10:44 #82 In Japan, they had lots of names for it.
00:10:48 #83 The new era of enlightenment.
00:10:51 #84 The new order in Asia.
00:10:53 #85 They call prosperity sphere
00:10:55 #86 But no matter how you slice it. It was just plain old-fashioned militaristic imperialism
00:11:02 #87 The japs would get the prosperity
00:11:04 #88 And the others would get the cold
00:11:07 #89 They say trouble always comes in three
00:11:11 #90 Take a good close look at this trio
00:11:15 #91 Remember these faces
00:11:18 #92 Remember them well
00:11:20 #93 If you ever meet them
00:11:21 #94 Don't hesitate
00:11:26 #95 I can't control spot design.
00:11:28 #96 In frighten, see, boy, it's an air.
00:11:30 #97 Stop thinking and follow me, cried Hitler.
00:11:33 #98 I will make you masters of the world.
00:11:35 #99 And the people answered, Hire, Hire.
00:11:43 #100 Stop thinking and believe in me, beloved Mussolini.
00:11:46 #101 And I will restore the glory that was wrong.
00:11:49 #102 And the people answered, Huchae, Huchae.
00:11:55 #103 Stop thinking and follow your God Emperor,
00:11:57 #104 cried the Japanese warlords.
00:11:59 #105 And Japan will rule the world.
00:12:02 #106 And the people answered, bonsai, bonsai.
00:12:07 #107 Each system was alike, and if the constitutional law-making
00:12:10 #108 bodies gave up their power, the Reichstag in Berlin,
00:12:14 #109 the House of Deputies in Rome, the Diet in Tokyo.
00:12:20 #110 And these elected representatives
00:12:21 #111 became collections of stooges, rubber stamp organizations.
00:12:30 #112 Applauding on cue the words of the leaders,
00:12:33 #113 Each system did away with free speech and free assembly.
00:12:38 #114 Each system did away with a free press
00:12:41 #115 and substituted a press controlled by the party.
00:12:44 #116 Through their ministries of propaganda,
00:12:46 #117 each took complete control of the theater, the movies,
00:12:49 #118 the radio.
00:12:50 #119 Every cultural activity and every channel of information
00:12:54 #120 was controlled by the most important members of the party.
00:12:58 #121 Each did away with free courts and trial by jury
00:13:01 #122 and substituted courts and judges run by the parties.
00:13:05 #123 Each abolished labor unions and the rights
00:13:08 #124 of bargaining for wages.
00:13:12 #125 I am going to report.
00:13:15 #126 Attention.
00:13:17 #127 Attention, 6.310 with 1, 3, 114 for the construction.
00:13:23 #128 Thank you.
00:13:23 #129 Attention.
00:13:27 #130 Let the white workers work.
00:13:28 #131 White workers.
00:13:30 #132 And under the pretext of patriotism,
00:13:32 #133 established a system of forced labor.
00:13:34 #134 Each enforced its decrees by an army of secret police
00:13:38 #135 who held the power of life and death over every individual.
00:13:42 #136 And for the few who still believed in freedom and said so,
00:13:46 #137 there was a ready answer. Stop.
00:13:56 #138 She's going for residence.
00:13:57 #139 You might feel proud to get elected and elected.
00:14:00 #140 The greatest intellect in the world
00:14:02 #141 can be silenced with this.
00:14:05 #142 That is an exact translation of the words these
00:14:07 #143 black shirts cheer so rustily.
00:14:12 #144 I'm not going to hear it.
00:14:13 #145 I'm going to show them my revolver.
00:14:15 #146 Whenever I hear anyone mention the word culture,
00:14:18 #147 the first thing I do is reach for my gun.
00:14:22 #148 Yes, they had the answer.
00:14:24 #149 A blackjack.
00:14:26 #150 And a gun.
00:14:49 #151 In Italy, they did it differently.
00:15:04 #152 While in Japan, to their names can
00:15:17 #153 be added those of hundreds and thousands of others who
00:15:21 #154 stood in the way of the new order.
00:15:24 #155 Finally there is only one obstacle left.
00:15:50 #156 The word of God and the word of purers cannot be reconciled.
00:15:54 #157 Then God must go.
00:16:03 #158 I'm absolutely clear in my own mind
00:16:05 #159 and I think I can speak for the purer as well.
00:16:08 #160 But both the Catholic and Protestant churches
00:16:10 #161 must vanish from the life of our people.
00:16:13 #162 Thus spoke Dr. Alfred Rosenberg.
00:16:16 #163 And if you have any doubt that he spoke for his pure,
00:16:19 #164 here's what happened.
00:16:20 #165 Thousands of other men of God.
00:17:07 #166 Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, were persecuted, arrested, confined in concentration camps.
00:17:15 #167 Our Fuhrer is the intermediary between his people and the throne of God.
00:17:19 #168 Everything the Fuhrer utters is religion in the highest sense.
00:17:23 #169 It is only on one or two exceptional points that Christ and Hitler stand comparison,
00:17:28 #170 for Hitler is far too big a man to be compared with one so petty.
00:17:39 #171 German classrooms. As take children from the faith of their fathers and teach them the state is the
00:18:17 #172 only church and the head of the state is the voice of God. The democratic world. What did we want?
00:22:30 #173 What did we do about it? First of all we wanted peace and security and to prove our sincerity.
00:22:35 #174 In 1921, we initiated the Washington Disarmament Conference.
00:22:40 #175 This resulted in two vitally important treaties,
00:22:43 #176 one to reduce the size of the British, Japanese, French, Italian and American fleets,
00:22:50 #177 and the other, the Nine Power Treaty which guaranteed the integrity of China.
00:22:55 #178 And incidentally, one of the powers signing this was Japan.
00:22:59 #179 Later on in 1929, we signed the Kellogg-Bee impact, which was supposed to abolish wars and means of settling international disputes.
00:23:08 #180 This pact was signed by 47 nations, including Germany and Japan.
00:23:14 #181 President, I have the honor of having you hit the London Naval Treaty.
00:23:20 #182 Faithful to our treaty obligations, we scrapped more than 60% of our naval tonnage.
00:23:35 #183 and our army was reduced to a standing force of 136,000 men, smaller than that maintained by the little state of Romania.
00:23:44 #184 We let our hopes for peace become so strong that they grew into the determination not to fight unless directly attacked.
00:23:52 #185 We let ourselves be influenced by those who said that we could find security through isolation.
00:23:58 #186 The confusion in our way of thinking is apparent in the slice of public opinion as it appeared
00:24:04 #187 in Pathé News in 1939.
00:24:06 #188 Not for me.
00:24:16 #189 This time America should keep out and I know I will.
00:24:20 #190 If war breaks out in Europe, I think that this country should hear the advice of its
00:24:25 #191 voice president and avoid all foreign entanglements.
00:24:29 #192 I haven't decided our dear of your queen of fares.
00:24:32 #193 events of war in Europe I think we should stay out of this in styling and all our
00:24:38 #194 efforts should be made to keep out of the fight but you have a fight of own
00:24:42 #195 battles they mean nothing to us we should find our own version my army
00:24:46 #196 no yes fight no no yes if my country calls yes
00:24:51 #197 you
00:24:54 #198 we simply did not want to understand that our individual and national problems
00:25:00 #199 world and always will be dependent upon the problems of the whole world.
00:25:05 #200 And we had individual and national problems to worry about.
00:25:09 #201 Plenty of them. Just as Germany, Italy and Japan had.
00:25:13 #202 But we placed them in a democratic way.
00:25:16 #203 We passed laws to give working men a chance to improve their luck.
00:25:20 #204 We established an insurance program for those without jobs.
00:25:26 #205 They began to give old folks protection against want and hunger.
00:25:34 #206 We organized the CCC to provide our young men with healthy and useful employment.
00:25:39 #207 A federal works program came into building and changed the face of our nation with new roads, bridges, schools.
00:25:51 #208 They built great new dams which brought the miracle of electricity to millions of our people.
00:26:01 #209 These were some of our accomplishments, but there were others not so creditable.
00:26:07 #210 We turned our backs on the League of Nations.
00:26:10 #211 of nations. We passed the tariff act to set a higher wall of isolation around us. We
00:26:16 #212 encouraged lawlessness with the farce of prohibition. But in spite of these mistakes, we never had
00:26:22 #213 a thought of losing our free institutions. John Q. Publix still ran the country. He had
00:26:27 #214 his choice of voting for Dewey, Wilkie, Roosevelt, or anybody else. In Germany, they had the
00:26:33 #215 choice of voting for Hitler, Hitler, or Hitler. Over here, John Q. still read what
00:26:46 #216 please. And although he heard of books being burned in other countries he would
00:26:51 #217 have laughed if anyone had told him his books would ever be burned. And on Sunday
00:27:10 #218 if he felt like it John Q went to any church he pleased. He got a kick out of seeing
00:28:08 #219 his kids go up. The average American was quite unconscious of the fact that some
00:28:52 #220 people had this in mind for the little John Q.
00:28:56 #221 While that children were being trained to kill John Q's kids were giving
00:29:32 #222 their pennies to help them have life. And when we saw these men in the newsreels
00:29:48 #223 quite often we laughed. To us they looked like characters in a musical comedy.
00:29:53 #224 But they weren't comic, they weren't funny, they were deadly serious. They were
00:30:06 #225 out for world conquests. And what made it doubly serious was that there were 70
00:30:12 #226 million Japanese, 45 million Italians and 80 million Germans all hopped up to
00:30:18 #227 the same idea. Their leaders told them that they were supermen.
00:30:28 #228 The match is called the master race destined to rule all of the people's honor.
00:30:35 #229 Take a good look at these humorous men. These were to be the rulers of the ruling race.
00:30:49 #230 Obese blindly and you will attain the rightful place in the world.
00:30:54 #231 All the people will be your slaves.
00:30:57 #232 That's what they promised them.
00:30:59 #233 That Americans, Chinese, Russian, South Americans,
00:31:04 #234 all three peoples would work for them and make them rich.
00:31:07 #235 And how they ate it up.
00:31:08 #236 We shall restore the glory that was wrong.
00:31:22 #237 Today we rule Germany.
00:31:24 #238 Tomorrow the world.
00:31:28 #239 The Pacific is ours.
00:31:32 #240 It was inevitable that these countries should gang up on us.
00:31:35 #241 The little fellow is our pal, Curasu, who smiled his way into our hearts in December 1941.
00:31:42 #242 Here he and his friends are busy carving up the world in advance, staking out their claims.
00:31:48 #243 Take a good look at these claims.
00:31:50 #244 Here was the Italy that Mussolini took over in 1922.
00:31:54 #245 And almost his first act was to tell the Italians they were the rightful owners of Corsica,
00:32:00 #246 Nice, Savoyah, Albania, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and a land corridor linking it with Libya.
00:32:10 #247 Later on, he had an even bigger dream.
00:32:13 #248 The old Roman Empire existed nearly 2,000 years ago.
00:32:17 #249 To dominate all the lands adjoining the Mediterranean.
00:32:21 #250 Mari Nostra, our sea, they called it, just as the ancient Romans did.
00:32:28 #251 As for the Japanese, they had some ambitions too.
00:32:32 #252 By 1920, they had grabbed off Formosa, Korea,
00:32:36 #253 and the southern half of the island of Sakhalin.
00:32:39 #254 Then Baron Gishi Tanaka, the prime minister,
00:32:42 #255 carefully set down Japanese aims in a document called the Tanaka Memorial.
00:32:47 #256 It was presented to the emperor July 25, 1927.
00:32:58 #257 Here was their dream.
00:33:00 #258 Manchuria for raw materials.
00:33:02 #259 China for manpower.
00:33:04 #260 Then a triumphant march through Indochina,
00:33:07 #261 Siam, Burma, India, the East Indies,
00:33:11 #262 and on through Australia and New Zealand.
00:33:13 #263 And in the north, all they claimed was that part of Russia,
00:33:16 #264 east of Lake Baikal.
00:33:18 #265 That was to be the new order in Asia.
00:33:21 #266 Then the Japs would move eastward to crush the United States
00:33:28 #267 and really start their coprosperity spirit.
00:33:31 #268 Now take a look at the fight the Nazis reserved for themselves.
00:33:34 #269 for themselves. Here's the Germany Hitler walked into. And here's what he wanted. First Europe
00:33:41 #270 under his complete political or economic control, leaving Mussolini a share of the loot if he
00:33:47 #271 behaved himself. Then the drive to the east through the rich oil lands of Iran, the Naira,
00:33:55 #272 into India. Another push south through Africa. Then from Dakar, jump off to meet the honorary
00:34:04 #273 honorary Aryans who were to move in on South America through the Pacific. At the same time
00:34:10 #274 start across from the Scandinavian countries to hook up with his bucktoothed pals coming
00:34:16 #275 over from Siberia to join in the conquest of the United States. There it is, gents.
00:34:23 #276 All that left us was Shangri-La. And they'd claim that too if they knew where it was.
00:34:29 #277 had a chance, listen. When war comes between Japan and the United States, I shall not be
00:34:41 #278 content merely to occupy Guam, the Philippines, Hawaii, and San Francisco. I look forward to
00:34:48 #279 dictating the peace to the United States in the White House at Washington. Yamamoto wrote
00:34:53 #280 those words on January of 1941. Yes, the conquering Japanese down Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:35:01 #281 That was the final goal.
00:35:03 #282 You will see what they did to the men and women of Nanking, Hong Kong and Manila.
00:35:08 #283 Imagine the field day they'd enjoyed they'd marched through the streets of Washington.
00:35:12 #284 But before striking, a preliminary step was necessary.
00:35:16 #285 From Berlin, from Rome, from Tokyo, the campaign started.
00:35:24 #286 started.
00:35:25 #287 Probegan to confuse, divide, soften up their intended victory.
00:35:31 #288 Put them on the defensive.
00:35:34 #289 Scream your abuse.
00:35:35 #290 Shout your oppressor.
00:35:36 #291 The world's wrong.
00:35:37 #292 You're right.
00:35:38 #293 If you shriek it loud enough and often enough, they'll believe you.
00:35:42 #294 Above all, use their free press and their free speech to destroy them.
00:35:48 #295 Laban's wrong, they demanded.
00:35:52 #296 Living rule.
00:35:53 #297 The lands are overcrowded.
00:35:57 #298 But at the same time they gave prizes to mothers who bore the most sums.
00:36:03 #299 They brought together large groups of young men and young girls for human beauty.
00:36:16 #300 One of their leaders wrote,
00:36:17 #301 Of course the children from this assembly line belong to the state to be scientifically trained for conquest.
00:36:41 #302 Another howl was the lack of raw material.
00:37:01 #303 They claimed they were the have-nots and we were the have's.
00:37:06 #304 But out of this supposed lack, they built up the greatest war machines the world has ever known.
00:37:12 #305 These are the published figures from the German military budget.
00:37:22 #306 Actually, between 1933 and 1939, Hitler's program of rearmament cost more than $80 billion.
00:37:31 #307 The Natchez alone assembled a striking force of 30 Panzer divisions, 70 motorized divisions,
00:37:40 #308 140 infantry divisions, plus the Luftwaffe, the world's largest Air Force.
00:37:49 #309 And they had no raw materials.
00:37:52 #310 Think of the bread, the automobiles, the good things of life that the German, Italian, Japanese leaders
00:37:58 #311 might have given their people if they had spent this money for peace instead of war.
00:38:04 #312 You know what billions we are now spending to match their military force.
00:38:08 #313 No, these arguments were all smoke screens.
00:38:13 #314 When war came, the democracies proved to be the have-nots, and our enemies, the hams.
00:38:19 #315 And when war came, where did it come?
00:38:22 #316 September 18, 1931.
00:38:38 #317 A date we should remember as well as December 7, 1941.
00:38:43 #318 For on that date, in 1931, the war we are now fighting began.
00:38:49 #319 began. The place was Manchuria, the northernmost province of China.
00:38:55 #320 6,000 miles from San Francisco. Manchuria the first objective in the Tanaka plan.
00:39:02 #321 By September 18th, the Japanese who by treaty patrolled the southern Manchurian railway
00:39:08 #322 had secretly and illegally increased their garrisons.
00:39:14 #323 On the Korean-Manchurian border, an entire Japanese army was assembled.
00:39:19 #324 Conveniently equipped for a winter campaign, all they needed was an excuse.
00:39:25 #325 They made their own.
00:39:27 #326 At 10.30 that night, just after the Mucklin Express had passed by, a section of track was dynamited, causing damage to one rail and two fishplates.
00:39:42 #327 Japan's honor had been violated.
00:39:44 #328 Half an hour, the Japanese railroad garrison launched a coordinated attack on the barracks of the sleeping Chinese army at Mucklin.
00:39:54 #329 The slaughter was appalling.
00:39:56 #330 By midnight, the conveniently placed Japanese army
00:40:02 #331 poured across the Korean border
00:40:04 #332 and the first open-active aggression,
00:40:06 #333 the invasion of Manchuria, was on.
00:40:09 #334 In four days, they had occupied the whole of southern Manchuria.
00:40:15 #335 And shortly after, the whole country.
00:40:19 #336 Manchuria became Manchukuo,
00:40:21 #337 a puppet state with an obedient stooge on the throne,
00:40:24 #338 Henry Puyi,
00:40:26 #339 A weakling whom the Japanese had prepared for the job with seven years of women from the
00:40:33 #340 song.
00:40:37 #341 In Washington, Henry L. Stimpson, man secretary of state, now secretary of war, sent out a
00:40:43 #342 blistering denunciation of the attack.
00:40:46 #343 The League of Nations sent a committee of five headed by Lord Lytton and including our
00:40:49 #344 own General Frank McCoy to Manchuria to investigate.
00:40:54 #345 In October of 1932, the committee issued its report.
00:40:58 #346 We found that the Japanese occupation of this large part of China was not justified on the
00:41:06 #347 ground of self-defense and that the new state which has been set up was a Japanese protectorate
00:41:13 #348 rather than a genuine case of Manchurian self-determination.
00:41:18 #349 Shortly after, the League condemned Japan as an aggressor nation.
00:41:22 #350 I call on His Excellency, Mr. Matsuoka, to get into Japan.
00:41:36 #351 It is a matter of common knowledge that Japan's policy is fundamentally inspired by a genuine desire to guarantee peace in the Far East,
00:41:50 #352 and to contribute to the maintenance of peace throughout the world.
00:41:56 #353 Japan, however, find it impossible to accept the report adopted by the assembly.
00:42:07 #354 In answer, the Japanese delegates, knowing there were no guns behind this condemnation,
00:42:13 #355 smiled, took up their briefcases, marched out of the league.
00:42:18 #356 More than Manchuria was dead.
00:42:21 #357 Collective security was dead.
00:42:23 #358 The green light had been given the aggressors.
00:42:26 #359 We in the rest of the world knew that these aggressors should be stopped and punished.
00:42:30 #360 But we were unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices to back up that opinion.
00:42:36 #361 It was impossible to convince a farm boy in Iowa, or a driver of a London bus,
00:42:41 #362 or a waiter in a Paris café that he should go to war because of a mud hut in Manchuria.
00:42:47 #363 Yet the subsequent course of history makes it clear that that incident,
00:42:55 #364 so many miles away is one of the main reasons that you and millions of others
00:43:00 #365 are in uniform today. The Japs had Manchuria, phase number one of the Tanaka plan was
00:43:09 #366 completed. Phase number two, the conquest of China. In 1932 without warning the
00:43:17 #367 Japs attacked the Chinese city of Shanghai, a local battle before capturing the city.
00:45:13 #368 This resistance may then decide to shift their campaign to the north and in
00:45:18 #369 In 1933, they added the province of Yeho to Manchuria.
00:45:23 #370 Yes, the Japs launched the second phase of the Tanaka plan,
00:45:27 #371 but they had yet to finish it.
00:45:30 #372 A united nation stands against it.
00:45:33 #373 Under the inspired leadership of General Chiang Kai-shek,
00:45:37 #374 the Chinese people fought and still fight on.
00:45:44 #375 Meantime, what of Japan's partners?
00:45:48 #376 What helpless people were they planning to bomb?
00:45:51 #377 Slaughter, drive into slavery.
00:45:54 #378 Hitler was not yet ready.
00:45:56 #379 What Mussolini was?
00:45:57 #380 Mussolini had to be.
00:45:59 #381 His people were growing restless.
00:46:02 #382 Fascism hadn't produced the heaven on earth
00:46:04 #383 that he had promised them.
00:46:05 #384 So he pulled the old trick of launching a foreign war
00:46:08 #385 to divert attention from troubles at home.
00:46:12 #386 So Mussolini beat his chest like Tarzan
00:46:14 #387 and looked around for a worthy phone.
00:46:16 #388 He found one.
00:46:18 #389 Ethiopia, a good country for the beginning of a glorious empire.
00:46:25 #390 Its army had no machine guns.
00:46:28 #391 Its army had no tanks.
00:46:30 #392 Its army did have an air force, exactly one old aeroplane.
00:46:36 #393 One aeroplane against the nation which had developed
00:46:38 #394 the new theory of total air war.
00:46:42 #395 Of the blitz which would wipe out cities, destroy civilians,
00:46:46 #396 man, woman, and child.
00:46:49 #397 In October of 1935, following the Japanese example,
00:46:53 #398 an incident was provoked at the little settlement of Wall
00:46:56 #399 Wall near the border of Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland.
00:47:01 #400 Italy's honor had been violated.
00:47:04 #401 Refusing any arbitration, Mussolini
00:47:06 #402 moved the whole might of his army through the Suez Canal
00:47:10 #403 to overrun the undefended country.
00:47:13 #404 Ethiopia's emperor, Haley Selassie,
00:47:15 #405 appeared before the League of Nations.
00:47:18 #406 I must still fight on until my tardy allies appear and if they never come, I say to you
00:47:29 #407 without bitterness, the West will perish.
00:47:38 #408 Members of the League half-heartedly stopped trading with Italy, but refused the only
00:47:42 #409 thing that will stop any aggressor, force.
00:47:49 #410 Ethiopia was left to herself.
00:47:53 #411 leaders came to pledge their allegiance. The people of Ethiopia, with their spears and bare hands,
00:48:14 #412 faced the guns and the tanks of the invaders, fighting desperately and gallantly to save their
00:48:20 #413 country from conquest. And they died. But in the end, there could be but one result,
00:48:56 #414 might triumph. Italy conquered Ethiopia. Many of our elected leaders warned us of danger.
00:49:04 #415 Without a declaration of war and without warning or justification of any kind, civilians including
00:49:15 #416 vast numbers of women and children are being ruthlessly murdered with bombs from the air.
00:49:23 #417 But we were still hypnotized by the fact that two broad oceans stood between us and the rest of the world.
00:49:29 #418 the world. We didn't realize that the time when months were needed to stand these
00:49:33 #419 oceans was ended. That the steamship had cut these months to days and that now the
00:49:39 #420 whole Earth's surface could be covered in the space of hours. Yes, we were a nation
00:49:44 #421 that wanted peace. But we hadn't yet learned that peace for us depends on
00:49:49 #422 peace for all. Nobody would run the risk of war because of some mud huts and
00:49:54 #423 barren planes in Ethiopia any more than we would run the risk for some similar
00:49:59 #424 Hudson planes in Manchuria correctly interpreting our attitude the aggressors
00:50:05 #425 were all the sure that they could get what they wanted Japan had started on her
00:50:11 #426 March of conquest Italy had begun her new empire and now the third gangster
00:50:17 #427 what about him we'll take him up on our next film and show how he joined his
00:50:23 #428 partners and put in his bid. For this is what we are fighting. Freedom's oldest
00:50:29 #429 enemy. The passion of the few to rule the many. This isn't just a war. This is the
00:50:37 #430 free people's life and death struggle against those who would put them back
00:50:41 #431 into slavery. The free peoples of America and Britain, of Russia and
00:50:46 #432 China, of Canada, Australia and all the 30 United Nations
00:50:52 #433 that have sworn that man shall still remain free.
00:50:56 #434 That is the cause in which we fight.
00:50:58 #435 We lose it, and we lose everything.
00:51:02 #436 Our homes.
00:51:04 #437 The jobs we want to go back to.
00:51:07 #438 The books we read.
00:51:09 #439 The very food we eat.
00:51:11 #440 The hopes we have for our kids.
00:51:14 #441 The kids themselves.
00:51:16 #442 They won't be ours anymore.
00:51:19 #443 That's what's at stake.
00:51:21 #444 It's us or them.
00:51:24 #445 The chips are down.
00:51:26 #446 Two worlds stand against each other.
00:51:29 #447 One must die.
00:51:31 #448 One must live.
00:51:33 #449 170 years of freedom decrees our answer.