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<blockquote data-quote="Pullman Brown" data-source="post: 5987750" data-attributes="member: 73012">Consider Japan&#039;s situation in the summer of 1941. Bogged down in a four year war in China she could neither win nor end, having moved into French Indochina, Japan saw herself as near the end of her tether.Inside the government was a powerful faction led by Prime Minister Prince Fumimaro Konoye that desperately did not want a war with the United States. The pro-Anglo-Saxon camp included the navy, whose officers had fought alongside the U.S. and Royal navies in World War I, while the war party was centered on the army, Gen. Hideki Tojo and Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, a bitter anti-American…….In November, the U.S. intercepted two new offers from Tokyo: a Plan A for an end to the China war and occupation of Indochina and, if that were rejected, a Plan B, a modus vivendi where neither side would make any new move. When presented, these, too, were rejected out of hand.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.laconiadailysun.com/opinion/colums/pat-buchanan---did-fdr-provoke-pearl-harbor/article_e570a964-cc21-5fb6-8d67-9eed31a60dd3.html[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pullman Brown, post: 5987750, member: 73012"] Consider Japan's situation in the summer of 1941. Bogged down in a four year war in China she could neither win nor end, having moved into French Indochina, Japan saw herself as near the end of her tether. Inside the government was a powerful faction led by Prime Minister Prince Fumimaro Konoye that desperately did not want a war with the United States. The pro-Anglo-Saxon camp included the navy, whose officers had fought alongside the U.S. and Royal navies in World War I, while the war party was centered on the army, Gen. Hideki Tojo and Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, a bitter anti-American……. In November, the U.S. intercepted two new offers from Tokyo: a Plan A for an end to the China war and occupation of Indochina and, if that were rejected, a Plan B, a modus vivendi where neither side would make any new move. When presented, these, too, were rejected out of hand. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.laconiadailysun.com/opinion/colums/pat-buchanan---did-fdr-provoke-pearl-harbor/article_e570a964-cc21-5fb6-8d67-9eed31a60dd3.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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