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Cauthers Oct. 3 1942 assale B It was just three years ago that I had the MUCMAROMEM pleasure of being with my friends who were gathered here at Carruthersville. At that time we discussed the great threat that was then apparent to our country. Our thoughts were - was it possible to keep America out of war. At that time the thunderbolt of Nazi aggression was held above the heads of the civilized world. Today that thunderbolt has fallen. Today the Nazi hordes have over-run Poland, France and virtually every part of Continental Europe. In the Western Pacific the gangster nation, the Nipponese, has overwhelmed the Philipines, Malaya, .B KRUMAN Dutch East Indies and are savagely attacking our $ 1,500 S. NARA s American troops in the Solomons. Alaska and our West