At 7:58 A.M., Hawaii time, on December 7, 1941—a quiet, sunlit Sunday—there flashed from headquarters of the great American naval base of Pearl Harbor this message to Washington:AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR—THIS IS NO DRILL.

How would you like to live in a society where a newspaper, the Victoria Times, would print this editorial? ". . . a vast, alien colony: exclusive, unassimilative, bound together in a secret and defensive organization with fewer wants and a lower standard of living than their neighbours, maintaining intact their peculiar customs and characteristics, morals and ideals of home and family life, with neither the wish nor the capacity to amalgamate with, or even conform to the civilization upon which they intruded, and gradually, by the pressure of numbers, undermining the very foundations of the white man's well being."