Mr. Knox Rockets

Mr. Knox's Rockets

From the rocket Navy Secretary Frank Knox sent whistling up into the eastern sky three weeks ago (when he announced that Hitler was "the enemy who before all others must be defeated first"), sparks were still falling. Last week Colonel Knox turned his rocket gun to another quarter, to let Asia know that our flag is still there.

Back home in Chicago, Colonel Knox made a speech. Said he: "Some people evidently misunderstood me. . . .

"Hitler hatched this ghastly conspiracy on the whole world but the enemy is one enemy. . . . We dare not turn our backs on either front. . . . We must not confuse history with strategy. The main enemy historically may not be the first enemy strategically. . . . We cannot take them on one at a time when they're coming two at a time."

That was what Colonel Knox had meant to say in the first place. A lot of people--including the Chinese, the Dutch, the Filipinos--were glad to hear it.

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