Going to War with Japan, 1937-1941

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Fordham Univ Press, 2005 - 238 pages
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How did Japan and the United States end up at war
on December 7, 1941? What American decisions might
have provoked the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor?
In this classic study of the run up to World War II, Utley
examines the ways domestic politics shaped America's
response to Japanese moves in the Pacific.

 

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Table des matières

Section 1
3
Section 2
23
Section 3
43
Section 4
83
Section 5
102
Section 6
119
Section 7
138
Section 8
183
Section 9
184
Section 10
186

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Page 16 - It seems to be unfortunately true that the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading. When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
Page 173 - I have washed my hands of it and it is now in the hands of you and Knox— the Army and the Navy.
Page 68 - sacred" war in China. In his "straight from the horse's mouth" speech, delivered to the America-Japan Society in Tokyo on October 19, he admonished his listeners: "The American people have good reason to believe that an effort is being made to establish control, in Japan's own interest, of large areas on the continent of Asia and to impose upon those areas a system of closed economy.
Page 68 - ... attitude — even Japan, I say — has insisted upon and has received the benefits of the open door in areas other than China, where, we are told, the principle is inapplicable except in a truncated and emasculated form. That highly complicated system of world economy of which I have just spoken is postulated upon the ability of nations to buy and sell where they please under conditions of free competition — conditions which cannot exist in areas where preemptive rights are claimed and asserted...
Page 5 - Any situation in which armed hostilities are in progress or are threatened is a situation wherein rights and interests of all nations either are or may be seriously affected. There can be no serious hostilities anywhere in the world which will not one way or another affect interests or rights or obligations of this country.
Page 16 - The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.
Page 26 - ... been evacuated. This policy, based on our duties and obligations, will be continued as long as the present controversy between China and Japan exists, and will continue in full force even after our nationals have been warned to leave China and after an opportunity to leave has been given. Most American citizens now in China are engaged in businesses or professions which are their only means of livelihood. These persons are unwilling to leave until their businesses have been destroyed or they...
Page 158 - Government will be forced to take immediately any and all steps of whatsoever character it deems necessary in its own security notwithstanding the possibility that such further steps on its part may result in conflict between the two countries.
Page 163 - Islands in the immediate future have changed the entire picture in the Asiatic Area. The action taken by the War Department may well be the determining factor in Japan's eventual decision and, consequently, have a vital bearing on the course of the war as a...
Page 68 - In short, the American people, from all the thoroughly reliable evidence that comes to them, have good reason to believe that an effort is being made to establish control, in Japan's own interest, of large areas on the continent of Asia and to impose upon those areas a system of closed economy. It is this thought, added to the effect of the bombings, the indignities, the manifold interference with American rights, that accounts for the attitude of the American people toward Japan today.

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Jonathan G. Utley is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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