Ten days before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Stimson entered in his diary the following statement:
[Roosevelt] brought up the event that we are likely to be attacked perhaps next Monday, for the Japanese are notorious for making an attack without warning, and the question was what we should do.
The question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.
MR. HARRIMAN: What about war criminals?
GENERAL MacARTHUR: Don't touch the war criminals. It doesn't work. The Nurnberg trials and Tokyo trials were no deterrent.
In my own right I can handle those who have committed atrocities and, if we catch them, I intend to try them immediately by military commission.
Then, to save that China trade of about $90,000,000, or to protect these private investments of less than $200,000,000 in the Philippines,
we would be all stirred up to hate Japan and go to war
British historian Russell Grenfell, a captain in the Royal Navy, wrote In 1952:
No reasonably informed person can now believe that Japan made a villainous, unexpected attack on the United States. An attack was not only fully expected but was actually desired.
It is beyond doubt that President Roosevelt wanted to get his country into war, but for political reasons was most anxious to ensure that the first act of hostility came from the other side;
for which reason he caused increasing pressure to be put on the Japanese, to a point that no self-respecting nation could endure without resort to arms.
Japan was meant by the American President to attack the United States. https://jamesperloff.com/2014/11/06/pearl-harbor-roosevelts-911/
Please let me know if this would continue to be your judgement if this were to tip the delicate scales
and cause Japan to decide either to attack Russia or to attack the Dutch East indies.
原文は "According to Earle, in a statement he made in the New York Times in December, 1947, he wrote a letter to Mr. Roosevelt after."
のようです。内容は確認しておりませんが、それと思われる記事の存在をNYTのアーカイブで確認できました。
45年10月5日、ニミッツ提督は下院で次のように演説した
「原子爆弾によって対日戦に勝ったのではない。実際は、広島の破滅によって原子力時代の到来が全世界に発表される前に、
そしてソ連が参戦する前に、日本はすでに和平を求めていたのだ。」
"The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world
with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into the war."
>>224
リンクのURLがおかしくなっていました。https://news.google.com/newspapers より
"All Victory Credit Claimed By Air Force" もしくは
"The war would have been over in two weeks without the Russians coming in and without the atomic bomb."
で検索してみてください。The Deseret News, Sep 20, 1945 が見つかるだろうと思います。
この証言を裏付けうる情報を私は持ち合わせていないのですが、次の新聞記事のうち
"...developments in Europe forced the Reich into closer relations with Japan
to offset a combination between the democratic Powers."
の部分が、意味が不明瞭なため断言はできませんが、同じ認識を示している可能性があると思われます。
>>223
アール元知事の「書簡」について。
ニューヨーク・タイムズ、1947年12月9日
"RUSSIA EXPOSE BAN CHARGED BY EARLE; Former Envoy Says a Letter to Roosevelt About the Peril Brought 'Exile' Order"
というタイトルの記事が関連していると、記事の内容から確認できましたので記しておきます。
>>237
貼ったURLがおかしくなったので・・。
66ページに
Koreans do not say that Jap rule has been entirely bad
とか
recruited nearly half a million of Koreans for hard labor in Japan
といった記述があります。
>>133>>167>>197
ヘンリー・フォード、意訳
「歴史は多かれ少なかれごまかしだ・・我々は現在に生きているし、価値があるのは現在の歴史だ」
History is more or less bunk.
We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
For the most part Japan has problems understanding how Americans and the West communicate Information,
It's quite different Japan. From 1953-1989 Japan only had to deal with US/UK perceptions on the war,
as China and South Korea had not formed fully their revision of history and promote it to the world.
The Chinese and Koreans were very smart about marketing their version of history. And that's what
it is Marketing.Japan believes that the truth and pure intent will be enough. And if the truth is heard,
people will naturally believe it if they have pure intent.That's not the case in the West at all.
We have to market and sell ideas as much as products. Civil Rights wa not won only by marches and
speeches, but by movies,TV shows, books, etc. The Japanese don't seem serious in presenting their
side of the story. Compare other nations and how they have to constantly market their views in the US.
Even Israel, whom many Americans genuinely lobe, must constantly "sell" its version of events in
the Middle East to combat various Islamic radical versions.Japan is also working against not only
China and the Koreas continual promotion, but against the vision of how America sees itself. To
challenge the belief that America fought WW2 in the Pacific for anything less than to free it from a
tyrannical grip of oppression creates a big issue in the US mind. The reality of the Pacific War
is the same geopolitics as any other war we have fought,we were just very good at propaganda,and the
story stuck, Its almost an emotional equivalent of telling an American their grandfather is a liar.
Japan needs to show how their version does not reduce the American military individual sacrifices.
Each sides soldiers fought for what they believed was right.Japan is also up against a very powerful
lobby that spends of money enticing American press, academics, and politicians to China and Korea
treats them well. This "charm program" sadly wins over to many. Promises of big profit in a Chinese
market for media companies compound this problem, and the Chinese government has no problem playing
hardball with a media outlet that they don't like by barring entry in the Chinese market. Everyone
in the US from Hollywood to New York knows this and sadly too many play along.
>>133
ペンの自己規制（文学の禁圧）
But the significant thing is not that they happen, but that, even when they are known about, they provoke no reaction from the left-wing intelligentsia as a whole. The argument that to tell the truth would be ‘inopportune’ or would ‘play into the hands of’ somebody or other is felt to be unanswerable, and few people are bothered by the prospect of the lies which they condone getting out of the newspapers and into the history books. http://orwell.ru/library/essays/prevention/english/e_plit
"One obvious thought occurs to me—that every Japanese citizen or non-citizen on the Island of Oahu who meets these Japanese ships or has any connection with their officers or men should be secretly but definitely identified and his or her name placed on a special list of those who would be the first to be placed in a concentration camp in the event of trouble." http://encyclopedia.densho.org/FDR_Hawaii_Memo/
どこかに書いたような記憶があるのですが、見つからなかったので。
ラティモアに関する新聞記事も複数見つかるので、彼について調べてみたいところです。
SPECIAL ADVISER FOR CHINESE LEADER ARRIVES
"Lattimore was recommended to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek by Presidem Roosevelt." https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192796436
米國が滿洲國の石油埋藏量が大した事は無い事を知つてゐたといふ事については、
“Foreign relations of the United States”，1935，Ⅲ，P.141.
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
Nanking, May 1, 1935.
１９３４(昭和９)年３月１４日に、リトビノフがブリツトに滿洲國承認と米支日と四國間不可侵協定を結びたい意圖を語つた事については、
FR，1934，Ⅲ，pp.74-75
The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Bullitt) to the Secretary of State
Moscow, March 14, 1934
