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[[left margin vertical]] Thursday December 11- [[underlined]] 1941 [[\underlined]] [[/left margin vertical]]
We agreed on December 17 which means next [[strikethrough]] Wednes [[/strikethrough]] Wednesday at 4 P.M. afternoon. Very bright but cold day. Newspapers are full discussing the tricks of Japan in conjunction with Hitler, Musolini etc. Roosevelt has cut off international relations with Japan and her European war connections. We now learn that some of our warships have drowned Japanese warships altho the Japanese claimed the contrary, and thus gave false information to the world at large. Mussolini as usual spread many lies on the subject. Energetic precautions are now being taken for citizens of the U.S., soon to be prepared against bombing 
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from the enemy, German, Italien, French etc. -So everyone now is on the alert but business and work goes on, uninterrupted. 
[[underlined]] Saturday [[/underlined]] December 13-1941
First snow of the year.- Further reports about the killings in Japan and adjacent American colonies as well as our steamships in those waters. The Japs report that two U.S warplanes have been destroyed including 77 shot down since the beginning of the Phillipine operations. Nine Jap naval planes have been rammed. 
Batavia Java is participating against Japan in allied action on the sea and in the air.
In the mean time the Germans broadcast in Europe from their "high Command" their