The week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Gates enlisted in the American armed forces.
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At the last of these sessions, John Gates, editor of the official party newspaper, The Worker, was sharply critical of the American party's blind obedience, its support of its Trotskyist opponents under the Smith Act, and its failure to commit itself to a peaceful path to socialism based upon maintained civil liberties.