Prelude to War Page #5

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And what made it deadly serious was,

they were 70 million Japanese,

45 million ltalians, and 80 million Germans,

all hopped up with the same idea.

Their leaders told them that

they were supermen.

Herren Folk" the Nazi called it, the Master Race.

Destined to rule all other peoples on earth.

Take a good look at these humourless men.

These were to be the rulers of the ruling race.

Bear us blindly and you will obtain your

rightful place in the world.

All other people will be your slaves.

That's what they promised them.

ThatAmericans, Chinese,

..Russians, SouthAmericans, all free peoples

would work for them and make them rich.

And how they ate it up!

We shall restore the glory

that was Rome.

Today we rule Germany.

Tomorrow the world.

The Pacific is ours!

It was inevitable that these countries

should gang up on us.

The little fellow is our pal,

Kurusu

Who smiled his way into our hearts

in December, 1941.

Here he and his friends are busy

carving up the world in advance.

Staking out their claims.

Take a good look at these claims.

Here is the ltaly that Mussolini

took over in 1922.

And almost his first act was to tell

the ltalians they were the rightful...

.. owners of Corsica, Nice, Savoien,

Albania,

Tunisia, Ethiopia, and a land corridor

linking it with Libya.

Later on he had an even bigger dream,

..the Old Roman Empire as it existed

nearly 2000 years ago.

To dominate all the lands joining

the Mediterranean.

Mare Nostrum, Our Sea they called it,

just as the ancient Romans did.

As for the Japanese, they had

some ambitions too.

By 1920, they had grabbed of Formosa, Korea and

the southern half of the island of Sakhalin.

Then Baron Giichi Tanaka,

the Prime Minister,

..carefully set down Japanese aims

in a document called theTanaka Memorial.

It was presented to the Emperor

on July 25, 1927.

In order to conquer the world,

we must first conquer China.

Here was their dream.

Manchuria for raw materials.

China for manpower. Then a triumphant

March through lndo China...

..Siam, Burma, lndia, the East lndia,

..and on throughAustralia and New Zealand.

In the north, all they claimed was

that part of Russia east of Lake Baikal.

That was to be the new order inAsia.

Then the Japs would move eastward

to crush the United States.

And really start the Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Now take a look at the bite

the Nazis reserved for themselves.

Here's the Germany Hitler walked

into and here's what he wanted.

First Europe under his complete

political and economic control.

Leaving Mussolini a share of the loot,

if he behaved himself.

Then a drive to the east, through the rich

oil lands of lran and lraq and into lndia.

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