WITHOUT WARNING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24792, 17 December 1941, Page 7

WITHOUT WARNING

THE JAPANESE ATTACKS PRESIDENT'S REVIEW (Rec. 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. President Roosevelt, in a message to Congress, reviewed the relations 'between America and Japan. He said: "We are now at war, fighting in selfdefence; . and for national The United States hoped to achieve an understanding with Japan for permanent peace in the Pacific, but Japan's reply took the form of. attack without warning upon • our territories in the Pacific. Actual air and submarine ,at r tacks in the Hawaiian Islands began at 1.20 p.m. (Washington time, Sunday, December 7). At 2.20 the Japanese Ambassador in Washington delivered to Mr Cordell Hull a message which said that the establishment of peace in the Pacific and the world was the cherished desire of the Japanese Emperor. At 5 p.m. the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Admiral -Togo, called on our Ambassador, Mr Joseph Grew, who was told that the Emperor so greatly desired the establishment of peace in the Pacific and the entire world that he had instructed the Japanese Government to continue its earnest endeavours to that end." The President concluded: " The people of this country are totally united in their determination to consecrate national strength and man-power conclusively to end the pestilence of aggressors and force which has long menaced the world and now has struck deliberately and directly at the safety of the United States."