What's the Answer?

Americans worried last week about Alaska. Japanese troops invaded the Aleutians six weeks ago; and at that time some military experts argued that the Japs must be dislodged within 60 days, or the job would become enormously difficult to do at all. The Japs were unquestionably at work: Tokyo claimed a big convoy had got through to Alaska without losses; the U.S. Navy claimed to have sunk three, possibly four destroyers and damaged another, probably out of the same convoy.

Great things hinged on getting the Japs out: How could the Russians give the U.S. bases in Russia whence to attack the Jap until the Alaskan approaches were clear? Soon the Jap might strike at Russia. At that moment the U.S would desperately need clear sailing between Dutch Harbor and Kamchatka.

The West Coast, close to Alaska by ties of blood, history and geography, grew steadily more alarmed by the seeming U.S. military passiveness. Now the unanswered question spread to the Midwest, to the East: What about Alaska?

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