It these bases can be held by our wavy secure from capture, they will form the stepping stones' for these naval patrol planes to enable them to reach the Philippines, from where our fleet would operate in a war against Japan.
The ultimate result of a naval and air war between Japan and the United States, viewed against the background of the two nations involved, would seem to be a United States victor Japan, a strong military and naval nation, is impoverished economically, while the United States, though not imbued with the material spirit, is rich ahd resourceful. Japan also would in all likelihood, be opposed by her traditional enemies, China and Russia.
The failure of Japan to obtain, by the action of her war fleet, the essential raw materials needed by her industries to maintain the efficiency of her fighting forces would in time encompass her defeat—United Press.
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