
In the U.S. capital, the last stragglers to sacrifice the traditional and oh so agreed ceremony best.
But in early 1942, they have something particularly shifted since even the most gifted critics are now unable to ignore or even minimize, the constant flow of bad news from the Pacific .

On Christmas Day, Hong Kong , pearl of the British Empire, is also passed into the hands of the Japanese, who, having landed in Malacca December 8, now threaten Singapore (1) after be shipped in less than one two jewels of the Royal Navy , the battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse (2)

If they can not publicly admit to the public, U.S. officials, both civilian and military are well aware that without reinforcements he can not send them, the soldiers said, now isolated in the Bataan Peninsula and the island fortress of Corregidor are condemned to more or less short term which, more than ever, calls for a research fact of "spectacular weapons, failing which change the course of the war will at least make it more bearable ...
(1) Singapore February 15, 1942 fall
(2) Did you know that. .. 661 and 662
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