Re: Why / Why-not 1941 Japan Vs. Russia?

In article <44ee936c$0$4198$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-
01.iinet.net.au>, gsinclairnb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Mussolini was wrong when it came to the tripartite pact, which
only came into force if the US declared war on Germany, Italy
or Japan. Not the other way around, otherwise Japan would have
been obligated to attack the USSR when Germany did.

Obviously both the Italians and the Germans were offering more then just
the terms of the tripartite pact to get Japan to come into the war.


Simply put these intercepts were far too late to affect the US decisions.

I suspect that these intercepts did affect the US decisions. In
Ribbentrop by Michael Bloch p378 it states

"On 8 December, the United States Congress declared war on
Japan....Roosevelt's speech contained no reference to the possibility of
war with Germany and Italy. (The President and Cordell Hull had
considered including such a reference, but decided against it as they
had been reading the Japanese codes and knew that the onus of formal
declaration could be left to the Axis.)"

In other words the writer is stating that US leadership intended to go
to war against Germany immediately after Pearl Harbour and only decided
against it as they knew that Germany would do so.



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time, huge amounts of scientific evidence, plenty of eyewitness
accounts, numerous experts opinion and mountains of photographs are not
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that there are many such people on the Usenet.

Observations of Bernard - No 104

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