I ask that the Congress declare, that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, astate of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page167:
In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out of theHedjaz by Ibn Saud, and astate of war sprang up between the new kingdoms ofSaudi Arabia andTrans-Jordan.
