Fwd: Truth is the First Casualty of War

[Brad De Long]

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>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