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.
