vision Moses Muhammad Confucius Christ all believe that in the sight of God all men were created equal and from that there developed a spirit among men and nations which is best expressed in our own Declaration of Freedom. We hold these truths to be selfless, that all men are created equal. It is the cornerstone upon which our nation was built, and the ideal of all the great liberators.
Washington, Jefferson, Garibaldi, Lafayette, Kishuska, Bolivar, Lincoln, Lighthouses. Lighting up a dark and foggy world. That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Fighting, living, dying, for what? For freedom. That for which men have fought since time began, to be free. Is life so dear or peace so sweet? We purchased at a price of chains and slavery.
Forbid it. They believed he and the group back just as he had earlier betrayed those who take it back post. Give them that. Take care of them, too. This man cunningly played all these ends against the middle.
He set out to murder the newborn German Republic. As the Japanese people, the emperor is gone. Taking advantage of their fanatical worship of the god emperor, it was no great trick to take away what little freedom they had ever known. In these lands, the people surrendered their liberties and threw away their human dignity. But they're right.
I'm Custom and in language, the same poison made them much alike. Each got a new uniform. In Italy, the new bosses wore black shirts.
In Germany, the shirts were brown. In Japan, they hid behind the uniform of the army. But really, they belonged to a sinister, secret society. Their symbol was a black dragon. The other fellows had to have a symbol, too.
Germany was busted. In Italy, the old Roman symbol of the fascists. In Germany, they call the new order National Socialism, or Nazism.
In Italy, it names the new era of the Spirity Sphere. But no matter how SITUISTIC IMPERIALISM The Japs would get the Spirity Would get the Cree Look at his face Remeet Make you masters of the world. And the people answered, Thinking and follow your god emperor, cried the Japanese warlord. And Japan will rule the world.
And the people answered, on time. The system was alike in that the constitutional law-making bodies gave up their power. The Reichstag in Berlin, the House of Deputies in Rome, the Diet in Tokyo.
And these elected representatives became collections of stooges, rubber stamp organizations. Plotting on cue the words of the leaders. Each system did away with free speech and free assembly.
Each system did away with a free press, substituted a press controlled by the party. Through their ministries of propaganda, each took complete control of the theater, the movies, the radio. Cultural activity in every transformation was controlled by the most important members of the party.
Each did away with free courts. ...jury, instituted courts and judges run by the party. Each abolished labor unions and the rights of bargaining for wages.
Turkey! Thank you. Let them continue working. Continue working!
And under the pretext of patriotism established a system of forced labor. Each enforced its decrees by an army of secret police who held the power of life and death over every individual. Who still believed in freedom and... in the world can be f*****g fierce The word of God and the word of purers must be reconciled.
Then God must go! I think I can speak for the Fuhrer as well. Protestant churches must vanish from the life of our people.
The intermediary between his people and the floating, the pure erotogen in the high, to be compared with one so petty. The German classrooms. Teach them the state is the only church.
The head of the state is the boy of God. In 1921, we initiated the Washington disarmament. This resulted in two vitally important treaties.
One to reduce the size of the British, Japanese, French, Italian and American fleets. And the other, the nine power treaty which guaranteed the integrity of China. And incidentally, one of the powers signing this was Japan.
Later on in 1929, we signed the Kellogg-Briain Pact. which was supposed to abolish war as a means of settling international disputes. This pact was signed by 47 nations, including Germany and Japan.
President, I have the honor of handing you the London Nail Treaty. Faithful to our treaty obligations, we scrapped more than 60% of our naval tonnage and our army was reduced to a standing force of 136,000 men smaller than that maintained by the little state of Romania we let our hopes for peace become so strong that they grew into the determination not to fight unless directly attacked we let ourselves be ready through isolation infusion in our way of thinking is apparent to public opinion ...Pathé news in 1939....keep out and I know I will. If war breaks out in Europe, I think that this country should heed the advice of its first president....foreign entanglement.
war in Europe, I think we should stay out of it entirely. Let Europe fight our own battles. They mean nothing to us. Problems were and always will depend upon the problems of the whole world.
And we had individual and national problems to worry about. Plenty of them, just as Germany, Italy, and Japan had. But we faced them in a democratic way. We passed laws to give working men a chance to improve their lot. Established an insurance program for those without jobs.
Folks pushing against want and hunger. We organized the CCC to provide our young men with healthy and useful employment. The face of our nation with new loans. Bridges electricity to millions of our people. So could the League of Nations.
The fact to set a higher wall of isolation around us. Usness with the far-o-bition. In spite of these mistakes, Free institution.
John Q. Public still ran the country. He had his choice of voting for Dewey, Wilkie, Roosevelt, or anybody else. In Germany, they had the choice of voting for Hitler.
Hitler. I've been in one of out of seeing his kids Conscious of the fact that some people Simmon King Trying to kill They weren't com-or deadly serious. They were out for world con-qu-Serious.
70 million Japanese, and 80 million Jibia. Just told them that they were supermen. Aaron Falk. The master race, destined to rule all other peoples on earth.
Look at these humorless men. These were to be the rulers of the ruling race. Attain your rightful place in the world.
The people will be your slaves. What they promised them? That Americans...
All free peoples would work for them and make them rich. These countries should gang up on us. The little fellow is our pal, Curasu, who smiled his way into our huts 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.
Italy that Mussolini took over in 1922. And almost his first act was to tell the Italians they were the rightful owners of Corsica, Nice, Subotica... 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 2,000 years ago, dominated all the lands adjoining the Mediterranean. Just as ancient world of Japanese, they had some ambitions too.
By 1900... they had grabbed off Formosa, Korea, the southern half of the island of Sakhalin. Then Baron Gishi Tanaka, the minister, carefully set down Japanese aims in a document called the Tanaka Memorial. It was presented to the Emperor July 25th, 1927. For all material. China for manpower.
Then a triumphant march through Indochina, Siam, Burma, India, the East Indies, and through Australia and New Zealand. And in the North, all they claimed was that part of Russia east of Lake Baikal. That was to be the new order in Asia.
Then the Japs would move eastward to crush the United States, and really stop parity. For themselves, Hitler walked into. There's what he wanted.
To the east. Through the. The United States.
There it is. I shall not be content merely to occupy Guam, the Philippines, Hawaii, and San Francisco. I look forward to Dick. the peace to the United States in the White House at Washington.
Yamamoto wrote those words on January 1941. Pennsylvania Avenue. That was the final goal. You will see what they did to the men and women of Nanking, Hong Kong, and Manila. Imagine the field day they'd enjoy if they'd march through the streets of Washington. But before striking, a preliminary step was necessary.
From Berlin, from Rome, from Tokyo, the campaign started. Probeganica. To confuse.
Divide. Soften up their intended victim. Put them on the defensive.
Scream your abuse. Shriek it often enough, they'll believe you. Speech, destroy them. German military 3 and 1939 spent this money spending to match their military force? By midnight, the conveniently placed Japanese army poured across the Korean border and the first open act of aggression, the invasion of Manchuria, was on.
In four days they had occupied the whole of southern Manchuria and shortly after, the whole country. Manchuria became Manchukuo, a puppet state with an obedient stooge on the throne, Henry Puyi. A weakling whom the Japanese had prepared for the job was seven years of women and song.
In Washington, Henry L. Stimson, then Secretary of State, now Secretary of War, sent out a blistering denunciation of the attack. The League of Nations sent a committee of five, headed by Lord Lytton and including our own General Frank McCoy, to Manchuria to investigate. In October of 1932...
The committee issued its report. We found that the Japanese occupation of this large part of China was not justified on the ground of self-defense, and that the new state which had been set up was a Japanese protectorate rather than a genuine case of Manchurian self-determination. Shortly after, the League condemned Japan as an aggressor nation. To His Excellency, Monsieur Mathieu Oka. It is a matter of commonality that Japan's policy is fundamentally inspired by a genuine desire to guarantee peace in the Far East and to contribute to the maintenance of peace.
throughout the world. Japan, however, finds it impossible to accept the report adopted by the Assembly. In answer, the Japanese delegates, knowing there were no guns behind this condemnation, smiled, took up their briefcases, marched out of the League.
More than Manchuria was dead, collective security was dead. Green light had been given the aggressors. We and the rest of the world knew that these aggressors should be stopped and punished.
But we were unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices to back up that opinion. It was impossible to convince a farm boy in Iowa, or a driver of a London bus, or a waiter in a Paris cafe that he should go to war because of a mud hut in Manchuria. subsequent course of history makes it clear that that incident, so many miles away, is one of the main reasons that you and millions of others are in uniform today.
Japs head Manchuria. Phase number one of the Tanaka plan was completed. Phase number two, the conquest of China.
In 1932, without warning, the Japs attacked the Chinese city of Shanghai. Resistance. Resistance made them decide to shift to 1333. They added the Proventurium.
The second Mussolini was, had to be. His people were growing diverted, taking troubles at home. Mussolini beat his chest like time, beginning of a glorious empire. Machine gun, which is the theory of the... Gentlemen, refusing any arbitration, Mussolini moved the whole might of his army to Suez Canal to overrun Ethiopia's emperor, Haile Seyi, appeared before the League of Nations.
I say to you without bitterness, the West will perish. Stop trading with it, but refuse the only thing any aggressor is keen to... Italy conquered Ethiopia. Many of our elected leaders warned us of danger.
Zosian Steamship These Monday's faces are mud hot in planes in Ethiopia Similar ...planes in Manchuria. Correctly interpreting our attitude, the aggressors were all assured that they could get what they wanted. Japan had started on her march of conquest. Italy had begun her new empire.
And now the third gangster. What about him? We'll take him up in our next film and show how he joined his partners and put in his bit.
For this is what we are fighting. Freedom's oldest enemy, the passion of the few to rule the many. This isn't just a war. This is the free people's life and death struggle against those who would put them back into slavery. The free peoples of America and Britain, China, Australia, and all the 30 United Nations sworn that man shall still remain free.
That is the... cause in which we fight. We have sound.