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few months.
Without this kind of foreign help the whole
hideous framework of Japanese imperialism would collapse from its own inner rot, and a new and enlightened democracy
might then emerge in the lovely islands of Japan.
Remember that the trade your fathers conduct with Japan's merchants of death is not only helping to murder our youth, but is helping also to kill the best part of the youth of Japan. Remember that for Japan this is an old man's war - a war of vicious old men hysterically trying to save their power by sacrificing on the altar of their greed the youth of their own country, in the hope of exhausting all forces of progress. It is a feudal and mediaeval war - a war to keep in bondage also many brave young men and women in Japan and Korea who struggle for liberation from their own Japanese oppressors as heartily as we fight against its extension to China.
More than anything else the Japanese militarists, who are now bringing into utmost degradation all the noble qualities of the Japanese people, fear the day when the American and British peoples will awaken to their joint responsibilities in the Orient, as leading nations of the civilized world. Greater than anything else the Japane se fascists live in terror of the consequences of the public realization of Japan's utter dependence on Anglo-American trade, finance, and long-term credits. Young friends of America, young friends of the British Commonwealth: it is
your duty to hasten that day of realization. Every hour of delay in the enforcement of a joint Anglo-American embargo against Japan means more thousands of deaths, for even against these enormous odds our revolutionary youth will never submit to slavery!