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Churchill stayed mum on attack, led us to war

William Hall, Waterford

Publication: The Day

Published 09/02/2010 12:00 AM
Updated 09/02/2010 04:30 AM

This is regarding the letter titled "Japan can't accept all blame for World War II," published Aug. 22.
• Japan never used the term surrender. When the Japanese emperor was on that nation's radio for the first time to talk to his people, he stated he would be stopping the war and that too many people were getting killed. He never used the word surrender.
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not refuse to see the two Japanese envoys because of the fact that these envoys did not receive Page 14 of their instructions before the start of the Pearl Harbor attack.
• President Roosevelt did not know beforehand about Pearl Harbor because Winston Churchill, who did know because the British broke the code, did not tell President Roosevelt because Mr. Churchill wanted us in the war.
And the rest is history.

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