Fwd: Truth is the First Casualty of War

[Brad De Long]

>  > >Prior US-Japan negotiations were destined to fail because former refused
>>  >to drop demand that latter accept 'free trade' that no countries,
>>  >including US, practiced at time.  Paul Schroeder (_The Axis Alliance and
>>  >Japanese-American Relations, 1941: An Appraisal of the American Policy_)
>>  >documented both Japanese diplomatic attempts to avoid war via concessions
>>  >on China (contrary to official US account)
>>
>>  What "concessions on China"? And why doesn't Akira Iriye's _Origins
>>  of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific_ agree?
>>  Brad DeLong
>
>second try, I've apparently had another post on this topic disappear,
>ummm...   Michael Hoover
>
>2nd question 1st: can't say, haven't read book, but you apparently have
>so maybe you can say (which you might have done in previous post, of
>course, it might have taken more time than multiple 1-2 sentence blather
>that you incessantly send to list).
>
>1st question 2nd: Nov. 1940, Japan wished to negotiate agreement that
>would've nullified Axis Pact participation, withdrawn all military
>forces from China, restored Chinese geographical boundaries and
>Chiang Kai-shek gov't --- Jan. 1941, Roosevelt/Hull kill any/all
>discussion of matter with comment that proposal will be taken under
>advisement (Exhibit #3441, _Record of Proceedings of the International
>Military Tribunal for the Far East_).

This "agreement" seems to have been readily attainable by unilateral 
Japanese action: Japan could have withdrawn all military forces from 
China, restored Chinese geographical boundaries, and turned power in 
occupied areas over to the Chiang Kai-Shek government any time it 
wished.

So what was to have been in the "agreement"? What actions was the 
United States to have undertaken?

Brad DeLong