Speech #770164422

So far with the exception of the gallant MacArthur and his small band of immortals we have taken a terrific beating on every hand. As was so well said in an article by Felix Morley in the Washington Star of yesterday: The rapid spread of World War II threatens to engulf all races. Rangoon. occupied by the Japanese on March 9. was the seventh center of white administrative control in the Far East to fall into the hands of a conquering Asiatic race. Hanoi. the French Indochina. came under Japanese direction some months before the assault on Pearl Harbor. Since then. in rapid succession. the capitals of the Philippines. of Sarawak. of North Borneo. of the Federated Malay States. of the Netherlands East Indies. and of Burma. have all: been unceremoniously placed under the flag- of the Rising Sun.