ABSTRACT
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering spoke the truth in introducing Adolf Hitler before the Reichstag in Berlin on December 11, 1941. The war, he said, had now become in the truest sense of the word a world war. Hitler broached familiar themes. The two men responsible for the enmity between the United States and Germany were Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hitler closed with a pro forma denunciation of the Jews as the cause of all evil. President Roosevelt responded quickly to the German and Italian declarations of war. Commonwealth troops had definitively raised the siege of the Libyan port of Tobruk. The retreating Germans were harried by British mobile columns and by air attack. To the Houston Chronicle, the Pearl Harbor attack and the declarations of war that followed had one profoundly positive effect. The air is clear. All hesitation and dissension is gone in America and the country is united as it has never been throughout its history.
