“Put me in the believer column until someone offers definitive proof that it was not used as the only way to get the US people “
Don’t think I woulda posted that, no, don’t think I would’ve.
I posted a clarification of what I meant.
November 25, 1941 Cabinet meeting:
According to Stimson’s testimony: “The President brought up the event that we were likely to be attacked perhaps [as soon as] next Monday, for the Japanese are notorious for making an attack without warning. In spite of the risk involved, however, in letting the Japanese fire the first shot, we realized that in order to have the full support of the American people, it was desirable to make sure that the Japanese be the ones to do this so that there should remain no doubt in anyone’s mind as to who were the aggressors.”
Naturally much of the information needed to make an evaluation of what transpired is not available to the public. However, there is much out there that could be validated by a genuine historian. There apparently is no interest. What was the role of Soviet agent, Harry Dexter White, in the preparation of the ultimatum sent to Japan. Did this ultimatum originate in Moscow?