To a certain extent this explains the shameful fact that in the Second World War, of the 485,000 men of the Marine Corps only three divisions (like 1st, 4th, and 5th) took an insignificant part in the battles against Japan, the remaining divisions altogether took no part in the war and were only stationed on conquered territory as a gendarme-police force. Thus the "combat exploits" of the U.S. Marines in the Second World War bear witness not to the military valor, not to boldness and fearlessness but only to the fact that in the person of the Marines, the U.S. imperialists have a pack of despoilers, called upon to exterminate the peaceful population of towns and villages.

At the time when American predatory imperialism is preparing to plunge mankind into the abyss of a third world war, the Wall Street monopolies are rearming their experienced gendarme-police force, the Marines, for better fulfillment of the role of stiflers of small states and peoples...