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continue to a victorious end, despite overwhelming odds:
But young friends of America! I must particularly
remind you of your grave responsibilities to your young
brothers and sisters fighting for the life of China.
you fully realize that your own hands are stained with the
blood of peace-loving people, who are being butchered by
hundreds of thousands? Do you fully understand that it
is with materials of death and destruction supplied to
Japanese medmen by your own country, that the bodies of our
people are being broken in pieces, burned, and horribly
mutilated?
The
American and British exporters furnish to Japan materials
without which her massacres in China would be impossible.
Japan's militarists ride into our country in American trucks
and armored cars, and in tanks driven by American engines.
They come into China driven by oil - American oil, for your country supplies 64% of all Japan's petroleum imports. The bombs Japan drops use American scrap iron or steel: your country supplies Japan with 33% of her iron imports.
Japanese planes that carry death over our cities use American
parts or are built in plants sold to Japan by American
manufacturers. Tens of thousands of our working people have been killed by cargoes of high explosives hurled at us by Japan. Yet those raiders whose deeds horrify you are
armed with products made by American labor, financed by
American capital, loaded by American longshoremen, and often sailed to Japan by American seamen in American ships.
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All these facts cannot be obscured from our people. you wonder, then, that some Chinese consider your Government's