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JAPAN’S PREPARATIONS FOR WAR ASSURANCES EXCHANGED. ROOSEVELT AND CHINESE GENERALISSIMO. LONDON, December 14. Japan’s policy of deliberate aggression is now admitted openly in Tokio. A speaker in the Japanese House of Representatives said the whole nation had long waited for the day to strike at Britain and the United States. The German news agency quotes a high Japanese official in Berlin as stating that Japan had been preparing for war for years.
The text of President Roosevelt's message to General Chiang Kai-shek had now been published. The President wrote: “I take pride in my country’s association with you and your great nation which you lead. I am wholly confident that the struggle in which we are engaged in common with other gallant, nations will result inevitably in the complete elimination of the lawless forces against which the efforts of your nation and our nation are directed.”
General Chiang Kai-shek replied: “In our now common battle, in which we offer you all we have and all we are, we will stand with you until the Pacific and the world are freed from the curse of perfidy and brute force.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1941, Page 5
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