"How U.S. Prepared for Japanese Invasion" Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Sep 2016 10:35 p.m. PST |
"In San Francisco, author and radio personality Upton Close, who was described by NBC as their "expert on the Far East," opened his radio commentary Sunday afternoon by saying "there's more behind this than meets the eye." He had picked up his phone, called the Japanese Consulate in San Francisco and asked to speak with Consul General Yoshio Muto. Instead, he was connected with Kazuyoshi Inagaki, who identified himself as the Consul's secretary and who told Close that the Pearl Harbor attack came as a "complete surprise" to the consulate staff and that the first he and Muto knew about it came in American radio bulletins. "That may prove to be true," Close speculated. "It is very possible that there is a double-double cross in this business. . .. It is possible that this is a coup engineered by a small portion of the Japanese Navy that has gone fanatic. . .. It might be possible for the Japanese government to repudiate this action, to repair the injury to America…"
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79thPA  | 20 Sep 2016 3:59 a.m. PST |
I was thinking of this: link |
| gamershs | 20 Sep 2016 5:33 a.m. PST |
In "Need to Know" reasoning the very last people you would want to know about a declaration of war and a sneak attack would be the diplomatic staff in the country you were going to attack. If the staff in the country you were going to attack started to act strangely or worse had been compromised then a warning might go out about the possibility of a sneak attack. |
| Tango01 | 20 Sep 2016 11:11 a.m. PST |
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| Mardaddy | 20 Sep 2016 1:34 p.m. PST |
The High School I went to was a T-shaped four story brick building built in 1927. It had a clocktower that stood even higher. During WWII it was used as a lookout for Japanese planes, being the tallest structure in the mid-San Francisco peninsula. The clocktower was long gone by the time I started Freshman year in 1979. |
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