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Dit benzine-embargo is hetzelfde als wat de VS deden om Japan te provoceren tot een aanval op Pearl Harbor:

Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Production, stated in 1944: ‘Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history to say that America was forced into the war.’ (…) Roosevelt knew that if Japan went to war with the United States, Germany and Italy would be compelled to declare war on America - thus entangling us in the European conflict by the back door. As Harold Ickes, secretary of the Interior, said in October 1941: ‘For a long time I have believed that our best entrance into the war would be by way of Japan.’…

Much new light has been shed on Pearl Harbor through the recent work of Robert B. Stinnett, a World War II Navy veteran. Stinnett has obtained numerous relevant documents through the Freedom of Information Act. In Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor (2000)….Stinnett reveals that Roosevelt’s plan to provoke Japan began with a memorandum from Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum, head of the Far East desk of the Office of Naval Intelligence. The memorandum advocated eight actions predicted to lead Japan into attacking the United States. McCollum wrote: ‘If by these means Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better.’ FDR enacted all eight of McCollum’s provocative steps and more….

After meeting with President Roosevelt on October 16, 1941, Secretary of War Henry Stimson wrote in his diary: ‘We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move - overt move.’ On November 25th, the day before the ultimatum was sent to Japan’s ambassadors, Stimson wrote in his diary: ‘The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot….’

The New American, Vol. 17, No. 12, June 4, 2001

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