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Was the war planned long before the attack on US?
Topic Started: May 26 2005, 09:47 AM (83 Views)
Darthsith
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One of the sources for confirming the fact that these plans were underway is Jim Parley, Roosevelt's Postmaster General and a member of Roosevelt's Cabinet. Mr. Parley wrote that at the second cabinet meeting in 1933: "The new President again turned to the possibility of war with Japan.”

It is possible that President Roosevelt knew that war with Japan had been planned even before 1933. According to one historian, Charles C. Tansill, professor of diplomatic history at Georgetown University, war with Japan was planned as early as 1915.

In a book entitled Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, published by D.C. Heath and Company, Professor Tansill makes this interesting observation:

The policy of pressure upon Japan antedated [President Roosevelt's Secretary of War Henry] Stimson some two decades...

Under Woodrow Wilson, a three-pronged offensive was launched against Nippon [Japan]....

In January, 1915, the American minister at Peking... sent to the Department of State a series of dispatches so critical in tone that they helped to create in American minds a fixation of Japanese wickedness that made eventual war with Japan a probability.

It will be recalled that Franklin Roosevelt had been appointed Wilson's Assistant Secretary of the Navy, so it is both conceivable and probable that he knew about these dispatches and the plans to involve us in a future war with Japan as early as 1915.

If the professor is correct, it was not Roosevelt's purpose to bring President Wilson's plans into fruition. All that was needed was an act that could be utilized as the reason for a declaration of war against Japan.

That reason was an attack at Pearl Harbor.

In fact, the American government knew that they were vulnerable at Pearl Harbor, the site of Japan's "surprise" attack to start World War II. It was at Pearl Harbor in 1932 that the United States Navy conducted maneuvers to test the chances of success of an attack from the sea. They discovered that Pearl Harbor was vulnerable from as close as sixty miles off the shore. That meant that Japan could attack from sixty miles away from Pearl Harbor and be undetected. The American Navy had proved it

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http://www.threeworldwars.com/world-war-2/ww2-background.htm
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Darthsith, we always provide a link to our sources here. The link at the bottom of the page does not match the information you have quoted.

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It does, scrole down to where they start taking about Jappan. In bold face it says "War With Japan"
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