If, however, the opinions of Messrs. Churchill and his followers should prevail, this statement will have been my last.

If we don't take Maikop and Grozny, then I must put an end to the war.

You have let down our country and our Red Army. You have the nerve not to manufacture IL-2s until now. Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. Shenkman produces one IL-2 a day and Tretyakov builds one or two MiG-3s daily. It is a mockery of our country and the Red Army. I ask you not to try the government's patience, and demand that you manufacture more ILs. This is my final warning.

I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.