Reassessing Pearl Harbor: Scapegoats, a False Hero and the Myth of Surprise Attack by James Johns

Author:James Johns [Johns, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2017-02-24T08:00:00+00:00

The addendum to Proposal B assured everyone that if the main points could be agreed upon, and if peace in the Pacific became a reality, Japan would withdraw her troops from China, as well as revisit the terms of the Tripartite Pact.

While Hull found Proposal B to be completely unacceptable, he had no doubt that the Japanese ambassadors were laboring under a deadline. Reiterating the deadline of November 25, Magic intercepts had revealed that no further concessions could be made and that negotiations would have to be broken off. At the congressional investigation of 1945–46, Hull would describe the Americans’ position:

The plan thus offered called for the supplying by the United States of as much oil as Japan might require, for suspension of freezing measures, for discontinuance by the United States of aid to China, and for withdrawal of moral and material support from the recognized Chinese Government. It contained a provision that Japan would shift her forces from southern Indo-China to northern Indo-China but placed no limit on the number of armed forces which Japan might send into Indo-China…. There were no provisions which would have prevented continued or fresh Japanese aggressive activities in … for example, China and the Soviet Union.36

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