Senator Pepper quoted public opinion polls dsserting the American people were ready to go to war if no other method of preventing an Axis triuifiph were possible.
"That's the way the American people feel," he said, "I am confident that's the way they feel,"
The Florida Senator advocated changing the law which prohibits Chinese recruiting pilots in the United States.
"In my opinion 50 modern bombing planes with American pilots at the throttles could make a shambles out of Tokyo," he said.
He added that dropping some bombs "in an inadvertent way" on Tokyo would speak in a language the Japanese would understand "and I hope, if I don't believe, that there are some on the way there now," he said.
Aggressive action by the United States is necessary now "to close the exits of Europe, Africa and Asia" to the. Axis, the Senator declared—
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