Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, declares war on the United states.  In his war message to the Reichstag (puppet legislature), Hitler blames de facto Commander-in-Chief Franklin Roosevelt, Esq., for “incit[ing the]war, then falsif[ying] The causes”: “Roosevelt has been guilty of. … [i]llegal seizure of ships and other property of German … nationals … and looting of, those being … interned.  Roosevelt … ordered the American Navy to attack everywhere ships under German … flags, and to sink them. …” Hitler goes on to accuse Roosevelt of making “profits out of inflation,” and creating the crises to cover his own failures for “not succeed[ing]in bringing about even the slightest improvement in his own country [nation]. …”

       NOTE: At the end of 1941 Unemployment in the United States is at 5.6 million, 9.9% of the national labor force; virtually unchanged from the end of 1930 when it stood at 4.3 million and 8.7%.  The nation’s unemployment rate did not decline until military conscription (involuntary servitude) began removing them from the job lines.

       Postscript: True economic recovery did not begin until 1947, when the Federal budget was cut from 98,400,000,000 “dollars” to only 33,000,000,000.  John Maynard Keynes predicted that a two-thirds cut in Federal spending would lead to a relapse of the Great Depression; but just the opposite was true.

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       Rear admiral Leigh Noyes, director of communications of the navy of the United States, orders that all existing diplomatic naval documents relating to the attack on Pearl Harbor be sealed for the next 54-years.  Noyes also gives the order to “Destroy all notes or anything in writing.”

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