<P>... Nazi forces are not seeking mere modifications in colonial maps or in minor European boundaries . They openly seek the destruction of all elective systems of government on every continent, including our own . They seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers who seize power by force . </P> <P> Yes, these men and their hypnotized followers call this a "New Order ." It is not new, and it is not order . For order among nations presupposes something enduring, some system of justice under which individuals over a long period of time are willing to live . Humanity will never permanently accept a system imposed by conquest, and based on slavery . These modern tyrants find it necessary to their plans to eliminate all democracies--eliminate them one by one . The nations of Europe, and indeed we, ourselves, did not appreciate that purpose . We do now . </P> <P> Author Ian Kershaw records Hitler's initial reaction to the attack, when he was first informed about it on the evening of 7 December at Führer Headquarters: "We can't lose the war at all . We now have an ally which has never been conquered in 3,000 years". Well before the attack, in 1928 Hitler had confided in the text of his then - unpublished Zweites Buch that while the Soviet Union was the most important immediate foe that the Third Reich had to defeat, the United States was the most important long - term challenge to Nazi aims . </P> <P> Hitler awarded Imperial Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany Hiroshi Ōshima the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle in Gold (1st class) after the attack, praising Japan for striking hard and without first declaring war . </P>

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